Profile: The Workforce Development Center

The Workforce Development Center is a unique strategic alliance of business, government and education. The most important feature of The Workforce Development Center is that it was created in response to an identified need by the community at large. It is a lifelong resource to all job seekers, both present and future, and a means to help businesses meet their short- and long-term workforce development needs.

Distinguishing features of The Workforce Development Center include: consensus management by partner agencies; functional integration of service delivery; market-driven approach to product development; integrated MIS systems; intense involvement of the business community; linkages to the K-12 school system; a highly diversified funding base of over eight million dollars annually, including fee based revenue, a broad array of technologically advanced services and unique financial arrangements for building, finance, construction and ownership.