Community Partners

Work Ready is helping Georgia's communities design economic development strategies to attract new business and preserve the health of their existing economic base. This voluntary initiative shows a community's commitment to life-long education and improving high school graduation rates, important factors for driving businesses to an area. To accomplish this, it takes our community leaders coming together with those in education, business and industry sectors to help their communities reach their goals.

Core Work Ready partners include:

• State Workforce Investment Board (SWIB) - oversee Georgia Work Ready and make policy recommendations to the Governor
• Local Workforce Investment Boards (LWIBs) - interface between Work Ready and WIA directors who serve dislocated workers, under-employed workers, at-risk youth and high school dropouts (out-of-school youth) in their service delivery areas
• Technical Colleges - service delivery provider of Work Ready Certificates, job profiles and gap training
  • Work Ready Job Profilers - provide job profiling services
  • Work Ready Administrators - administer Work Ready assessments and provide access to skills gap training
• Work Ready Community partners - local chambers, development authorities, education community leaders, workforce agencies, economic developers, businesses and others who comprise Work Ready Community teams at county level to accomplish community Work Ready Certificate and high school graduation rate goals
• Work Ready Regions partners  - regional teams guided by the Work Ready project industry leader and comprised of project leadership teams, core teams, home teams and industry networks to develop and implement the Work Ready Regional work plan

• Work Ready Regions industry networks - regional association of like industry members organized and led by Work Ready Region industry leader to ensure Work Ready Region workforce development strategies are aligned to needs of their industry.