The 2012 Building Workforce Partnerships conference features three workshop tracks, filled with practitioners, experts, and partners.

Unemployed in America: Causes, Consequences, Solutions features over 25 workshops organized in three tracks: 1) creating new jobs, 2) averting layoffs & providing effective layoff response, and 3) developing high road training partnerships and career pathways. Each session models the best regional collaboration we could find, and each session will impart the best thinking and practices around building enduring regional relationships and deep coalitions. Special emphasis will be on sector-based regional coalitions in core industry sectors – energy & utilities, healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality, construction, logistics & goods movement, and transit.

Workshop Tracks 2012

BWP 2012 features workshops organized in three tracks. Each session imparts the best thinking, practices, programs, and policy around the nation.

LAYOFF AVERSION & RAPID RESPONSE: Best policy and program work from around the nation in averting layoffs, rapid response to layoffs, and dislocated worker services

JOB CREATION & GREEN JOBS: Best coalition practice & regional policy focused on job creation, economic development, and green jobs. This year, our green focused workshops will be shared and presented as part of the BlueGreen Alliance's Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference. All attendees of BWP are allowed to attend the Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference for free, but you must register.

HIGH ROAD TRAINING STRATEGIES: Best high road coalition practice and policy on industry sector-based job training and career ladders