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ETA Recognition of Excellence Award Winners and Runners Up
CATEGORY 1: Education America's 21st Century Workforce
This
category recognizes innovative and effective strategies to prepare workers for
the challenges of a workplace that requires higher skills and more education.
- 1st Place Winner: Broward Workforce Development
Board/Workforce One, Broward County, FL
- Honorable Mention: The Rio Grande Valley Community College
Apprenticeship Training Alliance - McAllen, TX
- Honorable Mention: Forsyth Technical Community College -
Winston-Salem, NC
CATEGORY 2: Building and Industry/Business Driven Workforce
Investment System
The honorees in this category respond to the needs of
business, while preparing a skilled workforce to further continued job growth.
- 1st Place Winner: Southwest Minnesota Private Industry
Council, Inc. - Marshal, MN
- Honorable Mention: Washington Employment Security Department -
Olympia, WA
- Honorable Mention: Workforce Central Florida - Orlando, FL
CATEGORY 3: e3 Partnerships
This category rewards projects
that demonstrate sustained partnerships between employment, education and
economic development - ETA's "Power of e3."
- 1st Place Winner: Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment
Board - Franklin, CT
- Honorable Mention: The Governor's Workforce Investment Board -
Baltimore, MD
- Honorable Mention: Tacoma-Pierce County Workforce Investment
Council and Pierce County Health Services Careers Council - Tacoma, WA
CATEGORY 4: Recognizing the Demographics of the Workforce
This category addresses the critical need to find way s to integrate every
available worker into the labor force.
- 1st Place: Center for Employment Training - San Jose, CA
- Honorable Mention: WorkNet Pinellas, Inc. - Pinellas County,
FL
- Honorable Mention: Baltimore City's Ex-Offender Employment
Connection - Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY 5: Serving Out-of-School Youth
This category
recognizes innovative techniques and collaboration with business, industry and
essential partners in workforce and economic development to solve the
educations, training and hiring challenges of serving out-of-school young
adults.
- 1st Place Winner: Los Angeles Youth Opportunity Movement
(LAYOM), Los Angeles, CA
- Honorable Mention: Richland College - Dallas, TX
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