Topic: "Eliminating Impoverishment: Innovative Models to Improving Job Placement and Retention"
Participants will present collaborative approaches to increasing job placement and retention in NEO.
Program panelists: Walter Ginn, Executive Director, Towards Employment; Yvonne Tufts Jeans, Workforce Manager, ShoreBank Cleveland; and Randell McShepard, Director of Community Affairs, RPM International, Inc.
Moderator: James Harris, a partner of H/L Communications
- Mr. Ginn will report on progress with ACHIEVE, Towards Employment’s new business-directed, on-site national model.
- Ms. Jeans will discuss the expansion of Jobs Partnership in Cleveland, an innovative faith-based job placement model first developed in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Randell McShepard? will address regional initiatives from the vantage point of his capacity as chair of the Workforce Investment Board in Cleveland.
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