Free Technical Assistance Course
THE PROBLEM: "WE CAN'T FIND WORKERS."
Finding healthy, drug-free workers is difficult for many companies in our community - in part, due to the fact that job seekers and employees are failing drug tests at a record-setting number. In response, 17 communities throughout Ohio have joined forces to address this problem through the Working Partners® Drug-Free Workforce Community Initiative (DFWCI).

THE OPPORTUNITY: A Free Technical Assistance Course
A keystone activity of the DFWCI is to offer, free of charge, a technical assistance course to five companies per community. The outcome of the two-day technical assistance course is that each participating company will be educated and guided through a process to develop (or refine) a state-of-the art and legally sound drug-free workplace policy/program (DFWP) that will
  1. Save you time and money
  2. Give you systems to attract and keep quality employees
  3. Increase insulation against corporate liability
  4. Provide a roadmap to administer an effective and efficient DFWP policy/program
  5. Position you as a leader in the community -- taking action to improve our community's employable workforce
Topics covered in this graduate-level course include drug trends impacting the workforce and workplace, legal issues impacting a DFWP program (e.g., Ohio's marijuana law, ADA, DOT, OSHA), and best practices of operationalizing a policy/program.

PARTICIPATING COMMUNITIES & COURSE DATES
  • Austintown (6.1 & 6.15)
  • Bellefontaine (done)
  • Bowling Green (5.16 & 5.30)
  • Cambridge Area (5.18 & 6.1)
  • Clermont County (6.6 & 6.20)
  • Columbiana County (started)
  • Dayton (6.8 & 6.22)
  • Geauga County (6.2 & 6.16)
  • Hamilton (started)
  • Hancock County (5.16 & 5.30)
  • Lancaster (6.7 & 6.21)
  • Marion County (6.14 & 6.29)
  • Putnam County (5.16 & 5.30)
  • Over-the-Rhine (6.6 & 6.20)
  • Springfield (6.6 & 6.20)
  • Vienna Township (6.1 & 6.15)
  • Washington Court House (5.30 & 6.13)
Our business community has been talking about this issue for quite some time. 
Now it's time to do something about it. Will you join us?