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These best practices are collected from annual Workforce Innovation Award nominations. States submit programs, projects, or initiatives, which address a challenge they face, and result in significant performance or service improvements. 2020 Winter Workforce Innovation Award Nominations Me...

NASWA and LinkedIn are excited to announce the next phase of our partnership. After years of working increasingly closely from the NLx to training thousands of your career coaches, we're excited to announce a commercial collaboration to facilitate deeper public-private partnerships. Linked...

Overview NASWA’s partnership with Hilton™ strives to make the career transition easier for current and former military members by offering up to 100,000 hotel points to transitioning service members, veterans and other personnel who may be eligible. Allowable Activities: Travel for verifia...

BYLAWS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES (Formed under the Virginia Non-stock Corporation Act) Updated September 22, 2021 ARTICLE ONE Mission To enhance the state workforce agencies’ ability to accomplish their goals, statutory roles and responsibilities. Vision To be...

Several NASWA Committees held their first or second committee meetings of the 2014 Association Year in December and January, continuing the ongoing work from the previous year, while also discussing strategies to further their mission and goals in the coming year. The seven standing NASWA ...

On Thursday, November 21st, several states, led by the Chair and Vice Chair of NASWA’s Unemployment Insurance Committee Bruce Madson (OH) and Jay Rowell (IL), respectively, met with Congressional staff on the Senate Committee on Finance, which has jurisdiction over the Unemployment Insuran...

WASHINGTON – The Indiana Department of Workforce Development (DWD) was honored with the prestigious Pinnacle Award for Workforce Development for its Integrated Education and Training (IET) to Pre-Apprenticeship Expansion Initiative – Developing Foundational On-ramps to Apprenticeships. Pre...

WASHINGTON – The Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity was honored with the prestigious Pinnacle Award for Business Development for its Michigan Energy Workforce Development Consortium initiative. Presented by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies’ (NASWA) Em...

WASHINGTON – The prestigious Merrill Baumgardner Innovation in Information Technology Award was awarded to the Ohio Department of Job & Family Services (ODJFS) for its Helping the Unemployed Through AI Solutions initiative. The award, presented by the National Association of State Work...

WASHINGTON – The District of Columbia Department of Employment Services (DOES) was named the recipient of the inaugural Excellence in Communications Award for its Building Trust Through Community: DC Paid Family Leave Awareness Initiative, given by the National Association of State Workfor...