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Tracks: Comms, EO, and UI Equity, Plain Language, and Behavioral Insights: Frameworks for Improving State UI Programs This enlightening session will feature states sharing their experiences with using behavioral insights, plain language, and other strategies to improve equity and access...

Tracks: Legal and UI Tackling Worker Misclassification: Strategies to Respond Join to hear about how states and the USDOL Wage & Hour Division are responding to address worker misclassification. Over the last decade, the rise of a gig economy and virtual employment positions ha...

Tracks: Administrators, E&T, Legal, UI and WLMI Transitioning to the Evidence Era: From Dreams to Reality State workforce agencies have critical data assets and can help ignite a culture of evidence-building in their states. At this session, you'll hear from leaders who are on ...

Implementing an Additional SIDES Exchange Whether you are implementing an additional exchange or starting a modernization project, there are steps you will need to navigate to ensure success. Join us in an open discussion as we highlight key project steps that led the SIDES community to a...

During the pandemic, UI IT Systems were challenged to be scalable and flexible in implementing new programs and technologies. In this session, states will share how the pandemic shifted their systems and modernization efforts to focus on improving service delivery, customer journey, fraud ...

On your mark, get set, go! But what happens after deployment? Modernization teams had been focusing on requirements, development and testing; now they are working defects, conducting training, and transitioning back into the new norm. Join this session as states discuss promising practices...

Presenter Anna Hui, NASWA Board President and Director, Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations

Welcome Katie Houghlin (KY), Chair, NASWA IB Subcommittee Patsy Westcott (AK), Vice Chair, NASWA IB Subcommittee Color Guard Missouri Welcome   NASWA IB Subcommittee Welcome and Update Policy and Training Workgroup Update Miryam Valenzuela (AZ), Co-Chair Di...

Apprenticeships are often viewed as an effective training program to better link young people to good jobs. Given that young people are most vulnerable to changes in the future of work, it is important to consider how apprenticeships can be used to promote local economic development opport...

Inmates face an uphill battle upon release from prison, but state efforts to assist former prisoners into the workforce have evolved in recent years and the success stories are inspiring. The onus is moving from post-incarceration programs and services to pre-release programs. Allowing inm...