Road to Recovery Workforce Conference slated

The Employment and Training Administration has announced the Road to Recovery: Strategies for Reemployment Conference. The Conference will be held on December 14-15, 2010, in Arlington, Virginia.

The two days of workshops, lively discussions, informative action clinics, and collegial networking events will be focused on getting America back to work. The Department of Labor has solicited the expertise and talent from all program areas within the workforce system as well as its strategic partners.

Conference speakers and participants will represent staff from the following programs and service areas: Unemployment Insurance, Trade Adjustment Assistance, Rapid Response, Workforce Investment Act, Employment Services, One-Stop Career Centers, Registered Apprenticeship as well as Employers, Economic Development Agencies, Education, and other government and community partners.

The conference sessions are designed to:

• help state workforce systems to target and leverage resources to successfully reemploy unemployed workers;

• provide participants an opportunity to share successful practices and advance the national discussion about the design and delivery of reemployment services for the nation's unemployed;

  Emphasize holistic service delivery strategies, including the continuum of services from all workforce programs;

• Acknowledge and build on the workforce system's reemployment efforts for the last two years including new and expanded efforts funded under the Recovery Act;

• Address the new realities of prolonged unemployment and the need for many workers to up-grade their skills to find good jobs; and

• Share innovative and evidence-based reemployment service delivery strategies that work while also learning from unsuccessful strategies.

Reemployment of UI claimants and connecting UI to the Workforce System is a critical component of this year's State Quality Service Plan. This conference provides an opportunity to learn about innovative practices and to share challenges and solutions. The UI program is a key component of the workforce system and integral to strong reemployment strategies for UI claimants. It is critical to have active and engaged participation from state UI agencies at this important conference.

The Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. A draft agenda and detailed information are available at: www.roadtorecovery2010.org

Training and Employment Notice 17-10 provides full background, details the logistics, and describes the travel support for State UI staff.