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205 House Avenue, Suite 101 Camp Hill, PA 17011
Phone - 717.612.1590
Fax - 717.612.1593 
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Welcome to the PA Workforce Development Association

PA Partners and the PA Association of Workforce Investment Boards have recently merged to form the new PA Workforce Development Association (PWDA). The PA Workforce Development Association is the voice of Pennsylvania's workforce system, leading the workforce conversation, telling the workforce story, and serving as a clearinghouse for workforce development information to all stakeholders in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Learn more about us...

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We need your workforce stories!

We know you are doing innovative and exciting things in your region. Please take a moment to share successes and innovations with us and allow us to share them with those who can affect change in our system. Click on the links in the center of the home page to tell your workforce story!

 

 

Success Stories: How individual job seekers and employers have benefited from workforce investment in your region.

 

Innovations: Share innovative solutions and partnerships implemented in your region that capitalize on workforce investment funding.

Upcoming

Events

Save the Date!  2013 WIB Symposium

The WIB Symposium has been moved to October 8-9, 2013 at the Penn Stater in State College, PA.  This year's symposium theme is Beyond Best Practices: Strategies for the PA Workforce System.

 

2013 Conference Presentations

See presentations we have received here

 

Save the date! 30th Annual Employment, Training & Education Conference

May 7-9, 2014 Hershey Lodge, Hershey, PA

 

In the

News

 

Hearthway lauded for "preserving unemployment system's integrity"

17 June 2013

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Senate Appropriations reports on UC bill

11 June 2013

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May Jobs: Growth Slow, Jobs go Unfilled

10 June 2013

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PA Department of Labor & Industry announces UC benefit amnesty plan

07 June 2013

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Marcellus Shale Fast Facts (May 2013)

03 June 2013

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Senate Dems float budget proposal

03 June 2013

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Dem. Governor candidate Hanger's job proposal on deck.

30 May 2013

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PA House GOP releases proposed 2013-14 budget

29 May 2013

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Take

Action

Senate HELP Committee releases proposed WIA reauthorization draft bill, hosts full committee hearing on June 20

The Senate Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee circulated a discussion draft of WIA reuathorization bill on June 19. On Thursday, June 20, the Committee will host a hearing on reauthorizing the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998. Click here to read the summary of the draft bill and get more information about tomorrow's hearing.

 

Bi-partisan CAREER Act introduced by Ohio, Colorado Senators

Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) introduced a workforce reform bill known as the Careers through Responsive, Efficient and Effective Retraining (CAREER) Act. The Act is designed to streamline dozens of federal workforce programs while giving community colleges and career technical institutions priority access to funding.  Click here for more information about the CAREER Act, and check out National Skills Coalition's overview of the legislation.

 

President Obama releases budget proposal - see how it impacts workforce development

President Obama released the Fiscal Year 2014 budget proposal today (April 10). Click here to find out more about the budget proposal and how it could impact workforce development programs.