Sherry Kelley Marshall is joined by Paula Brehm-Heeger, the Eva Jane Romaine Coombe Library Director, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, to discuss the partnership between SWORWIB and the public library that covers the SWORWIB area of the City of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, bringing in access to citizens from across 48 library branches and the central downtown main library. Discover the advantages of this partnership for SWORWIB, the public library system, employers and job seekers. Moreover, the whole State of Ohio benefits from their combined leadership as there is now state legislation requiring one-stop center and workforce boards to partner with the state’s large public library system.

As children, teenagers, and college students head “back to school” across the county, there are also people over 22 years of age and into their 60s coming back to school in Cincinnati Ohio to finish their high school diplomas that they were not able to complete their first time around. This episode features Sherry Kelley Marshall, President and CEO of the Southwest Ohio Region Workforce Investment Board and Zak Nordyke, Director at Dohn 22+ Adult Diploma Program, part of the Dohn Community School in Cincinnati, OH, as they discuss the details of the 22+ Adult Diploma Program, why they decided to partner, and some of the benefits of the program. 

Procurement and monitoring of the One Stop Center is one of the most challenging requirements for a workforce board in the U.S. In this episode, you'll discover how the SWORWIB manages this challenging task and you'll hear from Sherry Kelley Marshall as she shares advice about these processes for workforce professionals. 

In this episode, Sherry Kelley Marshall discusses how and why the SWORWIB has been evaluating its eligible training providers since 2008, the policies they have in place about eligible training providers, as well as the board committee that oversees Individual Training Accounts and Eligible Training Providers. Discover what the WIOA requirements regarding evaluation will mean for the SWORWIB’s historical self-evaluation. 

Sherry Kelley Marshall discusses the partnership between the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the National Electrical Contractors Association and SWORWIB and the benefits of that partnership for those seeking a career as an electrician or electrical contractor, as well as for business, education and economic development. 

To read the white paper, visit this url: http://www.sworwib.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/3.23.18-SWORWIB-IBEWWhitePaper.pdf

Sherry Kelley Marshall, President & CEO of SWORWIB discusses the work that they have done in the region to re-embed apprenticeships in manufacturing, why it's important and who would be a good fit for these apprenticeships. 

Sherry Kelley Marshall, President & CEO of SWORWIB discusses the benefits and opportunities of leading a nonprofit workforce board, and what she is most proud of in terms of SWORWIB's accomplishments thus far.