What We Offer
For organizations looking to build or grow a workforce development program, our Workforce Development Solutions Lab provides an immersive, multi-day experience to equip practitioners with actionable approaches, tools, and resources to strengthen their reach and impact.
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Through this immersive experience, you will dive into:
RECRUITMENT
Discuss techniques to build and sustain participant interest, trust, and engagement.
SOCIO-EMOTIONAL TRAINING
Immerse yourself in a competency-based approach to socio-emotional skills training.
EMPLOYER PARTNERSHIPS
Gain perspective on how to cultivate employment partnerships, and make best-fit matches.
JOB RETENTION
Obtain knowledge, tools, and skills to help job seekers retain and advance in long-term employment.
PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING
Collaborate with peers to workshop ideas on best practices, best failures, pain points, and opportunities.
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Why Attend
Through this cohort-based program, attendees dive deep into Cara’s service delivery model with a focus on both successes and failures, to understand best (and explore emerging) practices in recruitment, socio-emotional training, employer partnerships, and retention. Attendees will workshop their own challenges and opportunities with other organizations and walk away with a community from which they can continue to learn and grow.
Who Should Attend
To maximize the experience and impact of our Workforce Development Solutions Lab, attending organizations must have a workforce development/job training component that is at least three years of age. We encourage executive leaders, senior leadership, or front-line managers to attend our Workforce Development Solutions Lab. While the series gives all leadership levels effective takeaways, we require at least one decision maker and at least one participant-facing staff member to maximize your experience (organizations may send two to four people).
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Commitment
We are currently running our Workforce Development Solutions Lab in person at Cara Collective, which includes 3 days of programming. Since this is a highly interactive experience, attendance at all sessions is required. Registration is $850 per person, which includes ongoing assistance and access to resources upon completion. Scholarships are available.
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