Center for Faith Based & Community Center for Faith Based & Community InitiativesInitiatives

Build Your Community Network!Build Your Community Network!

Orientation & Resource WebinarFor Funded Events

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IntroductionsIntroductions U.S. Department of Labor, Center for

Faith Based and Community Initiatives (CFBCI)

Erica Pelman

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Performance Excellence Performance Excellence Partners (PEP) Partners (PEP)

Rachel E. Ramirez, Project Manager

Cheryl LeMaster, Project Support

Lyle Neumann, Project Support

Denise Donnahoo, Event Planning 3

Local/Regional EventsLocal/Regional Events• #17 WIB (Mahoning County, Ohio)•Business Employment Skills, Inc. (Local WIB, Peru, Illinois)•Capital Region WIB (Albany, New York)•Center of Workforce Innovations, Inc. (Valparaiso, Indiana)•Centralina WDB (Charlotte, North Carolina)•Greater Austin Area WIB (Austin, Texas)•Kansas Local WIB #1 (Great Bend, Kansas)

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Passaic Co. WIB (Totowa, New Jersey)Southwest Arkansas WIB (Magnolia, Arkansas)Southwest Ohio WIB (Cincinnati, Ohio)Washtenaw County Employment and Training

Community Services (Ypsilanti, Michigan)Westmoreland-Fayette WIB (Youngwood,

Pennsylvania)Workforce Board of Northern Cook County

(Park Ridge, Illinois)Workforce Development, Inc. (Rochester,

Minnesota)Missouri Division of Workforce Development

WIB

Local/ Regional EventsLocal/ Regional Events

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State EventsState Events

Commonwealth of VirginiaGovernor's Council on Workforce Policy (WIB), AZState Employment & Training Commission (SETC)Iowa Workforce Development Maine Jobs Council

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Build Your Community Network Build Your Community Network Goals! Goals!

Develop relationships with faith-based and community organizations (FBCOs) not currently under contract with the One-Stop system.

Provide information on how to collaborate and make effective referrals to the workforce system and about resources and funding for workforce development.

Develop specific collaborative strategies with FBCOs to meet local business needs for job ready employees.

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What are you doing to conduct outreach?

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Where can we look for Where can we look for grassroots partners?grassroots partners?

Neighborhood Associations/Community Centers; Religious congregations located in communities you

serve, particularly disadvantaged communities; Community Action Centers/ Community Development

Associations;  Neighborhood Network Centers

(www.neighborhoodnetworks.org); Locally-based Associations and Community Centers

that specifically serve minorities, immigrants, people with disabilities, young people, and the elderly;

Local organizations providing clothes, food, shelter, drug treatment and long-term assistance.

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Who can help us identify faith-Who can help us identify faith-based and community based and community organizations?organizations? Large national nonprofits or associations with local

affiliates Local networks/ intermediary organizations (Compassion

Capital fund grantees, Mutual Assistance Associations, organizations organized around specific ethnic group)

Local religious leaders' alliances/ clergy association or ministerial alliances

Local interfaith councils or coalitions Local and national foundations Contacts with local media, in particular religious radio

stations and newspaper sections Mayor's community or faith-based relations office  Other city and county government social service

agencies.  District offices for members of Congress

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How do you plan to facilitate your event to ensure participants are

engaged?

How will you follow-up after your event to produce valuable

collaboration?

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Follow-up Activities Already Follow-up Activities Already ReportedReportedSelecting active attendees as Access PointsContinued collaborative meetingsDevelop formal Memorandums of UnderstandingQuarterly reporting to encourage additional local

strategic planning meetingsHost annual best practices meetings with

participantsWeb-based discussion board devoted to

attendeesDevelop website for information sharing and

networkingFollow-up surveyAsk participants to join planning committees

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What challenges are you encountering or anticipating?

What is working well?

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Outcome ReportsOutcome ReportsCopy of the agendaStrategy and actions developed

by participantsContinued participant follow-upSummary and copies of

participant evaluationsAttendee roster including

agencies represented

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Technical Assistance Technical Assistance AvailableAvailable

Consulting Services for:

◦Event design and management

◦Marketing and outreach◦Event outcomes, collaboration design, and follow-up

◦Registration and posting of meeting materials

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CFBCI Resources & CFBCI Resources & ToolsTools

CFBCI Online Publications:http://www.dol.gov/cfbci/

pubsmaterials.htm

Real World Practices: Faith-Based and Community Organizations Workforce Investment System

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Questions?Questions?Comments?Comments?

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Build Your Community Build Your Community Network!Network!Contact InformationContact Information

Erica Pelman: Pelman.Erica@Dol.GovRachel Ramirez: rramirez@performance-

excellence.us Cheryl LeMaster: clemaster@performance-

excellence.usLyle Neumann: lkneumann@performance-

excellence.usDenise Donnahoo: denise@theeventconn.com

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THANK YOU & THANK YOU & BEST OF LUCK WITH BEST OF LUCK WITH

YOUR EVENT!YOUR EVENT!

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