WPTI announces 2023 DTI Learning Community members

WPTI is pleased to announce the six workforce nonprofits selected for the 2023 cohort of the Digital Transformation Initiative (DTI) Learning Community.

Consortium for Workers Education: Founded in 1985, CWE provides a continuum of workforce preparation, industry-specific training and employment services to over 60,000 New York City workers annually.

Application for WPTI’s 2023 DTI Learning Community Now Open!

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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.

WPTI Releases New Report on Mentored Internships for NYC Youth Aging Out of Foster Care System, with Briefing to Take Place on Friday, March 24

A Pinkerton Foundation and NYC Administration for Children’s Services-funded program offering mentored internships to young adults aging out of New York City’s foster care system shows real promise for improving these young adults’ career prospects and lives, per a new report released by Workforce Professionals Training Institute (WPTI), a leading New York City-based workforce development intermediary that strengthens the city’s workforce development system by providing training and professional development services to job training and education professionals, capacity building and consulting services to workforce development programs and organizations, and systems building support to the citywide workforce ecosystem.

Application open for 2023 Business Engagement Learning Lab (BELL) until 12/16

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.

About Last Week’s Celebration of Women and the Workforce – THANK YOU!

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.