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South Central WDA Regional Efforts
Jobs With A Future (JWF): South Central Wisconsin Workforce Development Board
Website
http://www.jobswithafuture.org/index.asp
Region Covered
Jobs With A Future has a presence in Jefferson, Dane, Dodge, Sauk, and Columbia counties in regards to healthcare.
Mission/Purpose
Created in 1996, JWF brings together leading stakeholders in South Central Wisconsin to pursue a strategic vision for workforce development in the region. The partners are investing together to build “jobs with a future” for all residents of the region. The partners know that such work requires both stronger shared vision among institutions, and a stronger role for the region’s leading employers in implementing that vision.
Goals
JWF provides institutional partners with a forum to discuss diverse programs and bring them into better alignment, and the infrastructure to develop and implement a stronger strategic vision for skills development in South Central Wisconsin.
Through JWF employers work with leading institutions on solving practical skill, training, recruitment, and retention problems. JWF also brings employers together to identify industry-wide problems (such as healthcare shortages) that would have gone unnoticed by individual firms, and provides the infrastructure to implement agreed-upon solutions to those problems (such as jointly purchased training) that many firms would find difficult to undertake on their own.
Members
General Jobs With A Future Members (institutional members/partners)
- City of Madison
- Dane County
- Job Centers
- Madison Area Technical College
- Madison Gas & Electric Economic Development Services
- Moraine Park Technical College
- South Central Federation of Labor
- United Way of Dane County
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Center on Wisconsin Strategy
- Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin.
Health Care Industry Members/Partners
- Beaver Dam Care Center
- Beaver Dam Community Hospital
- Bethesda Lutheran Homes
- Central Wisconsin Center
- Columbia Health Care Center
- Community Living Alliance
- Community Living Connections, Inc.
- Country Nurses, Inc.
- Dean Health Systems
- Divine Savior Health Care
- Fort Health Care, Inc.
- Group Health Cooperative HMO
- Independent Living, Inc.
- Maplewood of Sauk Prairie
- Meriter Health Services
- Meriter Retirement Homes
- Solaris Management, LLC
- St. Coletta of Wisconsin
- St. Mary’s Hospital
- Twin Rivers Assisted Living, LLC
- UW Health
- UW Hospital and Clinics
Funding
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment & Training Administration has funded a grant to establish the ongoing, collaborative relationship of the network. Donations of time, facilities, and equipment are provided by member agencies.
Schedule of Meetings
JWF Members have many benefits such as: relevant and affordable training for workers, opportunities to recruit new workers, on-going engagement in cross-firm learning and sharing of best practices, and opportunities to develop stronger relationships with public sector actors.
However, members are bound by many mandatory commitments such as: Attending regional partnership roundtables, conferences, and best practices sessions; actively work in partnership projects by sharing expertise and industry knowledge, assisting in the development and delivery of training programming, participating in surveys and interviews for partnership research projects, and committing resources to help promote and sustain JWF.
Highlights
In September 2005 the Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin received a $120,500 from the state to expand the work of JWF.
This expansion is occurring both geographically, into the Southwest region of the state, and within particular industries.