[NIFL-WORKPLACE:340] RE: One-Stops

From: Barb Van Horn (blv1@psu.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 17:41:13 EST


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A subscriber posted to me privately when I asked for reactions to the 
Thursday Notes blurb about employers not using One-Stops. With 
permission, the original posting is below.

I am not at all surprised that employers are not using One-Stops.  In 
our state, at least, business and industry perceived the One-Stop 
concept to be very self-serving for certain constituencies (i.e. 
finding a way for some folks to keep their jobs) and never could see 
what was in it for them as employers.  Consequently, they look 
elsewhere for training for incumbent or potential employees.

Robin Asbury
Coordinator
West Virginia Workplace Education Program
1000 Virginia Ave.
Fairmont, WV 26554
304/367-1431
FAX:  304/366-4897
<mailto:resa7rb@wvnvms.wvnet.edu>resa7rb@wvnvms.wvnet.edu

So, subscribers,

If this perception is correct, then it seems that the One-Stop 
operators need to do some work to convince employers that they 
provide viable services. Or, is it that the One-Stops are relatively 
new? Or, are they new?

Are potential workers using the One-Stops? If so, how is that working?

Where are employers looking for training?

Other reactions?? Other perspectives? What's going on out there in 
One-Stop land across the nation?

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Barbara Van Horn
NIFL-WORKPLACE List Co-Moderator
Co-Director, Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy
Co-Director, Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy
College of Education, The Pennsylvania State University
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