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What is a Workforce Board?
Connecting People. Building Skills. Powering Local Economies. Every community has a local or regional workforce development board (WDB) that serves as the bridge between employers, jobseekers, educators, and training providers. These boards ensure that public workforce dollars are strategically invested to help businesses find skilled workers and help people access pathways to family-sustaining employment.
What Does a Workforce Board Do?
Align business and talent needs: Workforce boards bring together employers, educators, and community organizations to understand local hiring needs and create solutions that work. Manage workforce services: Workforce boards oversee the operation of American Job Centers and related programs that offer career guidance, job search assistance, and skills training. invest in training: Workforce boards direct funding toward high demand skills development, apprenticeships, and upskilling opportunities for jobseekers and current workers.
Support the local economy:
By connecting businesses with skilled talent, workforce boards help strengthen communities and drive economic growth.
Why it Matters
For jobseekers: Access to free or low-cost training, job placement support, and career planning tools.
For employers: A single point of contact to recruit, train, and retain a skilled workforce.
For communities: Stronger partnerships, reduced unemployment, and pathways to good jobs for all residents.
By the Numbers
550+ Workforce development boards nationwide
2,300+ American Job Centers serving millions annually
Millions of dollars invested every year in workforce programs that meet local needs
More than 70% of individuals receiving career and training services become employed
- Workforce boards make connections that matter.
- Workforce boards help people get good jobs.
- Workforce boards help businesses thrive.
- And workforce boards help communities grow stronger together.
Every year, the CDO Workforce connects hundreds of residents to jobs, skills training, and career opportunities.
These investments don’t just change lives, they strengthen our local economy, helping businesses grow and our community thrive. Our board serves as a bridge between employers, jobseekers, educators, and training providers. We ensure that public workforce dollars are invested strategically so that local businesses can find skilled workers, and residents can access the training and support they need to access pathways to family-sustaining employment.
Last year alone, our board achieved remarkable results: We helped 1182 jobseekers secure employment in high-demand fields. We partnered with local employers to create Training Programs, On-the-Job Training, and Upskilling Opportunities. Through our Upskilling Opportunities, approximately 66 residents gained skills, preparing them for careers in local, growing, and high demand fields. We assisted approximately188 Out-of-School Youth to secure employment or post-secondary education, attain HSED, attain work experience, or improve work related skills.
Workforce development is about more than employment. It’s about building stronger communities, fostering opportunity, and empowering people to reach their potential.
This September, we celebrate the difference our local workforce board makes every day in Chenango, Delaware, and Otsego counties, and we invite our community to join us in this work.Learn more at www.nawb.org and your local Chenango, Delaware and Otsego Workforce Development Board.
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