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The future present of work is digital.  Workforce programs must be too.

WPTI's Digital Transformation Initiative (DTI) Learning Community is a five-month, team-based, structured learning program that brings together practitioners from multiple organizations to explore issues at the nexus of workforce development and digital technology, including:

how jobs and access to jobs are being redefined, at an exponential rate, by automation and task augmentation;
the impact of digital skills gaps on income inequality and the ability to build pathways out of poverty;
opportunities to bolster the effectiveness and capacity of all facets of workforce program operations and streamline staff workflows by strategically using the right tools.

Dear Colleagues and Supporters of WPTI,

With bittersweet emotions, the Board of Directors of the Workforce Professionals Training Institute (WPTI) announces that our CEO, Sharon Sewell-Fairman, is stepping down on March 3, 2023 after 13 years with the organization.

We are pleased to announce the release of NYC’s Unsettled Covid-19 Era Labor Market: The Case for an Active Labor Market Policy, developed partnership with the Center for NYC Affairs at the New School and the NYC Employment and Training Coalition (NYCETC), and authored by James A. Parrott and L.K. Moe.

Back by popular demand, and with the generous support of the Altman Foundation, WPTI is pleased to offer several new live, virtual trainings, open to workforce development practitioners and leaders at no cost to you!

Due to high demand, we encourage you to reserve your seat(s) today.

WPTI invites all workforce development programs to apply to participate in Business Engagement Learning Lab (BELL).

(BELL)

Job development. Redefined.

Application open until Friday, December 16 at 5pm

WHAT:

BELL is a three-month rigorous cohort-based training initiative that equips workforce programs with the advanced employer engagement techniques and operational skills needed to thrive in a time of labor market upheaval.

On Thursday, October 27th, Dan Salemson, WPTI’s Managing Director of Digital Learning & Training, appeared as a guest panelist at Nonprofit Staten Island’s 10th Annual Staten Island Nonprofit Conference, 2022 & Beyond: Building Nonprofit Capacity & Resilience.

As New York City emerges from the economic crisis that occurred in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the City looks to the workforce development ecosystem, and workforce development providers, as we pursue a full and equitable economic recovery.

Women, especially women of color, form the backbone of New York City’s workforce development community. To recognize and celebrate their vital contribution to creating pathways out of generational poverty for thousands of New Yorkers, over 60 attendees joined WPTI for our first in-person event in almost three years – Women and the Workforce: Rising to Meet the Moment – on Wednesday, June 8, 2022.

As WPTI’s own research documented in 2012 and 2020, women constitute nearly 7-in-10 of all frontline practitioners across New York City’s 200+ workforce development programs.

Since 2017, WPTI has led the Mentored Internship Program (MIP), a Pinkerton Foundation-funded initiative focused on providing 12-week mentored internships and career exposure for young adults aging out of foster care. This population faces unique challenges, and often requires additional support to effectively transition to adulthood, including college and/or career.

Machines and computers have been transforming the modern workplace for decades.  The pandemic supercharged this transformation over the past two years.

In response, Workforce Professionals Training Institute (WPTI) has launched the inaugural cohort of our Digital Transformation Initiative (DTI) Learning Community.