Decoding Data: Understanding the Reports You Use

Workforce IT Support Center's "Building Data Literacy for All" is a customized learning opportunity focused on data literacy and the critical role it plays in improving programs and services for customers. This three-part webinar series, designed for Frontline Staff continues on Tuesday, July 16, 2024 (2:00 - 2:45 p.m. ET) with the second session, Decoding Data: Understanding the Reports You Use.

During this three-part webinar series, attendees will emerge with a better understanding of:

• The critical role of data in data-based decision-making
• Typically available datasets and reports
• How to apply available datasets and reports

OVERVIEW

In this webinar, participants will develop an understanding of typically available datasets and reports.

Presenters Cynthia Forland, Ph.D. and Scott Wheeler will explore the types of datasets and reports that are commonly available for Unemployment Insurance (UI), Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and Labor Market Information (LMI) systems. Examples of specific reports, including real-time data and longer-term outcomes, and how data that frontline staff collect is essential to those reports will also be discussed.

PRESENTERS

Dr. Cynthia Forland, a workforce development and labor market expert, brings vast expertise in policy and analysis from her consultancy and senior management roles as the Washington State Employment Security Department. She has a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the New School for Social Research.

Mr. Scott Wheeler, a workforce development expert, leverages a decade of leadership at the Washington State Employment Security Department and five years of consultancy. He has a Master’s of Public Administration from Evergreen State College.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This webinar series is focused toward frontline workers who are responsible for collecting data directly from customers. Participants may interact with individual claimants, jobseekers and employers through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Unemployment Insurance (UI) or other workforce development programs and services.

UPCOMING WEBINAR

Session 3 | July 30 (2:00 - 2:45 p.m. ET) - Data-Driven Service: Using Reports to Enhance Customer Interactions

QUESTIONS?

For questions regarding this webinar series, contact witsc@naswa.org.

NASWA Workforce ITSC offers a range of services to support all workforce system partners, NASWA Members and Government Partners, as they work collaboratively to meet current and future customer needs. Learn more about Workforce ITSC: www.naswa.org/witsc