| Baltimore Workforce Investment Board Releases Study Confirming Need for Post-Secondary Education to Fulfill Future Job Requirements Mayoral-appointed board urges quality educational programming to meet job demands September 1, 2010 |
Mayor Rawlings-Blake Thanks Congressional Delegation for Summer Jobs Support |
Baltimore, MD – Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Baltimore Workforce Investment Board (BWIB) Chair John Ashworth announced today the release of the Talent Development Pipeline Study, which recognizes the critical link between post-secondary education and employment requirements for Baltimore’s future jobs. |
Baltimore, MD – Today, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake thanked Baltimore City’s Congressional Delegation for their support of the YouthWorks summer jobs program at a press conference at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. The delegation was successful in securing a Department of Labor grant of $575,000 that provides six-week summer jobs in high growth industries to Baltimore youth and young adults as part of YouthWorks new Baltimore Career Corps project. |
| Baltimore City’s Summer Jobs Program Completes First Week Mayor and City Council help to fund YouthWorks at same level as 2009 despite city’s economic challenges July 2, 2010 |
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to Speak at
U.S. Conference of Mayors Workforce Development Council Board Meeting in Baltimore Congressman John Sarbanes to provide keynote address to U.S. cities’ workforce development professionals at the Hilton Baltimore April 21, 2010 |
Baltimore, MD - Baltimore City’s YouthWorks summer jobs program completes its first week today as thousands of youth and young adults begin their six-week work experience. More than 5,400 young people, ages 14-24, were offered summer job opportunities at more than 400 private sector and nonprofit locations throughout the city. |
Baltimore, MD – Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will join Congressman John Sarbanes and Karen Sitnick, president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) Workforce Development Council (WDC) and director of the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development, in welcoming the WDC to Baltimore for its annual board meeting. |
| Local Business Leaders Share Award-Winning Workforce Strategies through free Webinars Baltimore Regional Employer Institute leads series of forums March 26, 2010 |
MOED Director Named President of U.S. Conference of Mayors Workforce Development Council Karen Sitnick elected to serve one year term January 28, 2010 |
Baltimore, MD - For the third consecutive year, the Baltimore Regional Employer Institute (BREI) is hosting business-to-business forums led by local employers who won BREI awards for conducting innovative workforce practices. Uptown Press, Genesis HealthCare, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, and Good Samaritan Hospital are the regional organizations that are conducting these free and interactive forums. |
Baltimore, MD - Mayor’s Office of Employment Development Director Karen Sitnick was elected president of the United States Conference of Mayors Workforce Development Council (WDC) at the organization’s 78th Winter Meeting last week in Washington D.C. Ms. Sitnick will lead the WDC for the next year and will continue the council’s efforts to provide a forum for Mayors and their employment and training administrators to examine all workforce development issues and to strengthen the ability of cities to meet the needs of their citizens; particularly economically disadvantaged individuals, those with serious skill deficiencies, dislocated workers, and others with special barriers to employment, including youth. (Full Story) |
