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2023 WRC Boot Camp Training Opportunities
ACT’s Work Ready Communities Boot Camp is for leaders who want to move aggressively forward into this 21st century approach to work readiness and economic development. The Boot Camp is a performance-driven program WRC leadership teams use to initiate, deploy and drive carefully tailored county and regional efforts that grow the number of counties certified as work ready. The goal is clear: On board and certify your counties.
WRC leadership teams shape a goal-oriented strategy that builds on deploying ACT's testing infrastructure and data gathering. However, the strategy must go beyond these two elements - and the ACT WRC initiative helps leadership teams do that by shaping what we call a 'challenge' that makes the most sense for each community's unique circumstances, including - critically - of work readiness. Successful teams are those willing to invest the team time and focus needed to shape and succeed against this challenge-centric approach.
The Virtual Boot Camp fee is $150 per person.
Counties who successfully launch WRC programs aligned with the ACT WRC Common Criteria will receive continued long-term support from ACT to sustain their initiatives post-WRC Boot Camp.
THE BASICS: ACT is providing process, tools and data to support building a common platform at the county level for measuring and closing the skills gap based upon the ACT WorkKeys NCRC. The model is built upon partnerships at the national, state and local levels and a Boot Camp approach to provide structure to the start-up and successful launch.
To show your community's interest in participating in the ACT® Work Ready Communities initiative, complete this brief form.
Get StartedEconomic Development leaders across the nation open many new doors of impact linked to their Work Ready Community efforts.
View Brochure (PDF)See more testimonialsNow more than ever, Missouri needs a strong, skilled workforce to move our economy forward. Initiatives like ACT’s Work Ready Communities are critical to preparing our future generation for high-skill, high-demand jobs, and we are proud to be leading the nation in this effort.”