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Category: In the News

  • Group aims to connect locals with transportation, infrastructure project jobs

    Group aims to connect locals with transportation, infrastructure project jobs

     

    Workforce Solutions Capital Area has partnered with the city and Travis County, as well as Austin Transit Partnership and Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, to form a leadership group focused on linking local residents to jobs from the many transportation and infrastructure projects taking place in the coming years.

    With Project Connect, light rail, the Interstate 35 reconstruction and the expansion of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on tap, the group’s goals include studying future skills needs for those projects, finding ways to scale workforce training programs, identifying obstacles for job seekers and creating a plan for building the workforce to fit infrastructure needs.

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  • Experts Weigh In On Educating, Training Workforce

    Experts Weigh In On Educating, Training Workforce

     

    The annual State of Workforce & Education Summit was hosted by the San Marcos Area Chamber of Commerce and the Greater San Marcos Partnership, bringing both local and statewide leaders together to discuss the current conditions of education and employment.

    Paul Fletcher, CEO of Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area, Tamara Atkinson, CEO of Workforce Solutions Capital Area and Adrian Lopez, CEO of Workforce Solutions Alamo, came before the audience in a panel discussion designed to shed light on how to bolster the workforce ecosystem across their organizations and the region generally.

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  • Program seeks to increase job training for nurses

    Program seeks to increase job training for nurses

     

    Workforce Solutions Capital Area has partnered with Austin Community College and health care training nonprofit Dwyer Workforce Development to increase job training for nurses needed throughout Central Texas.

    Workforce Solutions Capital Area is covering tuition and some child care costs for students taking the training offered by Dwyer, with a personal case manager available to assist with the application process.

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  • Capacitación gratuita para ser electricista

    Capacitación gratuita para ser electricista

     

    Es un empleo con mucha demanda, con sueldo competitivo y con un entrenamiento básico que dura solamente una semana y que puede resultar gratuito gracias a las aportaciones de algunas organizaciones. Esas son las principales ventajas de convertirse en electricista estudiando una semana en la Lone Star Construction Trades Training, que está celebrando su quinto aniversario.

    Quienes apliquen pueden recibir el apoyo de organizaciones como Texas Workforce Solutions Capital Area, American GI Forum y Goodwill, que pagan toda la capacitación si se cumplen ciertos requisitos.

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  • Austin Community College partnership aims to train nurses

    Austin Community College partnership aims to train nurses

     

    As the nursing shortage continues to grow, Austin Community College launched a program July 24 with Dwyer Workforce Development, a health care training nonprofit, to combat the issues.

    The new program from ACC and DWD offers an easier pathway for students who want to work in health care, with an opportunity to become certified nursing aides. The program is specifically designed to provide support services in and out of the classroom, often for underrepresented communities in health care.

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  • Austin Community College and Dwyer Workforce Development partner for innovative nurse-training program to address healthcare staffing crisis

    Austin Community College and Dwyer Workforce Development partner for innovative nurse-training program to address healthcare staffing crisis

     

    Austin Community College and Dwyer Workforce Development have teamed up to launch a new, innovative nurse-training program right here in Central Texas. The new partnership will bring together federal, state, and local resources to create new pathways for those looking to enter the healthcare industry. Organizers say the program will support scholars who lack opportunity, improve the healthcare staffing crisis, and therefore improve the lives of seniors.

    The program will launch with the college’s Continuing Education fast-track certified nurse aides (CNA) program, with additional support provided through Workforce Solutions Capital Area and other partners. The program intends to train 100 CNAs in the first part of the partnership.

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  • Austin Community College to launch partnership to train more nurses

    Austin Community College to launch partnership to train more nurses

     

    Austin Community College said it and a Maryland-based non-profit will launch a partnership Monday aiming to train more nurses to fill a gap in health care in Central Texas.

    According to the ACC announcement, the partnership between the college and Dwyer Workforce Development will begin with the school’s certified nurse aide (CNA) program.

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  • Child care in Travis County is the most expensive in Texas, new data show

    Child care in Travis County is the most expensive in Texas, new data show

     

    Child care in Travis County is more expensive than anywhere else in the state, according to the National Database of Childcare Prices (NDCP), a new data source released this year by the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau.

    Families can check if they qualify for child care financial assistance in Travis County on the Workforce Solutions Capital Area website.

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  • Samsung hosts two Taylor High teachers

    Samsung hosts two Taylor High teachers

     

    Samsung Austin Semiconductor and the Taylor Independent School District have partnered once again.

    Two Taylor High School teachers visited the semiconductor factory in Austin for three days last week, July 11-13, as part of the Workforce Solutions Capital Area’s Educator Externship Program.

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  • Project Connect kicks off construction as leaders work towards resolving workforce needs

    Project Connect kicks off construction as leaders work towards resolving workforce needs

     

    As work on the huge transit overhaul known as “Project Connect” begins, project managers are looking for a lot of help.

    Project Connect isn’t the only big project in the works, which is why the Austin Transit Partnership brought on experts like Cesiah Kessler from nonprofit Workforce Solutions Capital Area to partner with schools and government agencies to fill roles.

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