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The SUNY Canton Small Business Development Center (SBDC), the North Country Chamber of Commerce and The Hoffman Eells Group CPAs are teaming-up to help restauranteurs and foodservice providers.

The virtual event will take an in-depth look at how to run a successful restaurant during the pandemic. Consider innovative ideas to attract and keep customers, along with a back to basics look at using financial numbers to accelerate your profits and generate cash flow.

2020 was all about surviving, getting through, and waiting for better days to come. Now that recovery is in sight plans can and should be made for what comes next. Join us for an informative webinar that will help you assess your current financial position and develop strategies to move forward in the New Year.

Position your business for success in 2021 and beyond – setting goals, adapting to change, building cash reserves, examining markets for your products and services, evaluating future needs, outreach to current customers and vendors.

2020 was all about surviving, getting through, and waiting for better days to come. Now that recovery is in sight plans can and should be made for what comes next.

Join the North Country Chamber of Commerce for an informative webinar that will help you assess your current financial position and develop strategies to move forward in the New Year.

•Getting your financial house in order – debt, credit, budget, cash flow

•Positioning your business for success in 2021 and beyond – setting goals, adapting to change, building cash reserves, examining markets for your products and services, evaluating future needs, outreach to current customers and vendors

Please contact Susan Matton with any questions by email or at 518.563.1000.

Among other needs, United Helpers is in dire need of Direct Care staff at this time. They are currently looking for any qualified community members to work in Direct Care positions at a number of locations. United Helpers is offering hazard pay based on work assignment.

They also ask that you please share the following United Helpers Community Needs website with anyone who might also be interested in getting involved in this crucial community effort.

The website offers an opportunity to review United Helpers’ list of essential staffing and material needs and the ability for individuals to respond with support they can offer. Anyone interested in applying for a Direct Care position with United Helpers can do so from the website under “Staffing Assistance”. 

For questions, please reach out to Anna Merchant

ACTION BY 2023: Be a national leader for workforce data by investing $7- $10 million of State Wagner Peyser funding for an integrated data system that enables workforce professionals to effectively share and manage programs and performance.

The need for a thoughtful, integrated workforce development data system is especially timely considering the number

of New Yorkers unemployed and without a path forward. Due to the origin of the funding (i.e. the various federal or state programs) the variability in how workforce development programs measure employment makes conducting a crossprogram, system-wide analysis of workforce programs a challenge. As outlined in the Invest in Skills NY brief, Accounting for Success: A Blueprint for Measuring the Performance of New York State’s Workforce Development System, in order to achieve a data-driven workforce system, the state needs to apply a uniform metric across its different programs, and make a real

investment into building, utilizing and maintaining the system. Invest in Skills NY has offered five recommendations to help guide the state in building a comprehensive system for collecting and analyzing data on workforce development:

1. Commit state resources and direct state agencies, in collaboration with local stakeholders (e.g., employers, workforce training providers, and colleges), to build and sustain a comprehensive data system through a transparent and accountable process.

2. Adopt a set of common performance metrics to be used across workforce development programs and funding streams.

3. Build and test the technical elements of the data system.

4. Integrate SUNY and CUNY into the statewide data system to better capture workforce outcomes of the state’s public higher education system.

5. Make data available and user friendly to state and local government agencies, workforce training providers, legislators, employers, and the general public to ensure that it is used to

support strong workforce outcomes.

Fortunately, New York can learn from other states that have taken on the task of streamlining their workforce development

data management systems. States such as Michigan, Minnesota, Texas, and Washington have built systems that now

allow the state to prioritize programs and interventions with a strong return on investment. Additionally, utilizing their

State Workforce Board and local workforce system, they are quickly able to respond to changing needs; scale up effective

interventions and shift resources, as needed.

New York is also one of the fourteen remaining states who have neglected to take advantage of the federal Workforce Data

Quality Initiative funding, that provides for up to $2.7 million to an eligible State Workforce Agency for the integration of

the state’s case management system, performance reporting, and/or fiscal reporting systems with the state’s longitudinal

database. The intent of the WDQI databases is to “generate workforce training provider performance information and

outcomes, including those relevant to Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act performance reporting, in a standardized,

easy-to-understand format to help customers select the education and training programs that best suit their needs.

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