West Virginia - Resources
General
Resource Materials and
Providers
Labor Market Information
General
The Adult
Basic Education Program (ABE) of the West Virginia
Department of Education allows adults to acquire and improve functional skills
such as speaking, listening, reading, writing,
thinking, and math skills as well as English
as a Second Language.
URL: http://wvabe.state.k12.wv.us/
Resource
Materials and Providers
The West Virginia
Workforce Investment Board serves as the lead agency on all
statewide workforce matters. The
Board coordinates the local workforce investment boards,
negotiates statewide performance standards and ensures quality
improvement of workforce investment programs and activities.
URL: http://www.wvwib.org/default.html
The Office of
Vocational-Technical Education (West Virginia) provides
vocational-technical education programs and services to youth
and adults.
URL: http://wvde.state.wv.us/
The Governor's Workforce
Investment Office maintains a searchable list of provisional
training service providers for the State of West Virginia.
The Office also provides a list of WORK4WV regional self-access
points.
URL: http://www.wvgwio.org/
West Virginia Tech Prep
prepares students for a highly skilled technical occupation that
allows either direct entry into the workplace as a qualified
technician or continuation with further education.
URL: http://www.wvtechprep.wvnet.edu/
Contact the West
Virginia Workplace Education Program for on-site,
customized basic skill training in areas such as applied math,
teamwork, and communication. Also, business and industry
pre-hire assessment development and pre-hire basic skills
classes are offered statewide.
URL: http://resavii.wvlink.com/
Workplace
Education classes are provided under the direction of
the State ABE Program and are designed to provide customized
basic skill programs, ACT WorkKeys job profiling, and/or
pre-employment LINKS (Lifelong Instruction in New Knowledge and
Skills) programs for new or expanding industry.
URL: http://wvabe.org/workplace.htm
The Center for
Business and Industry Clearinghouse provides a statewide
centralized database and resource center for workforce education
providers and those in need of training or retraining. The
Center is a partnership between West Virginia State College and
the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources.
URL: http://wvclear.wvsc.edu/cbi/index.html
Workforce Development and
Technical Training programs at the Robert C. Byrd Institute for
Advanced Flexible Manufacturing (RCBI) at Marshall University
are custom designed to meet the needs of manufacturers.
RCBI provides statewide and regional access to advanced
technology and technical training to small and medium sized
companies.
URL: http://www.rcbi.org/content/workforce.asp
The Electronic
Campus of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) is an
“electronic marketplace” for courses, programs and services.
All courses and programs are offered through distance learning
by accredited colleges and universities in the SREB states.
URL: http://www.electroniccampus.org/
Labor
Market Information
The West Virginia
Chamber of Commerce provides business leadership to meet
state and regional issues. The Education Committee
provides a forum for promoting education and good schools
and is particularly interested in workforce development
issues.
URL: http://www.wvchamber.com/
Employment statistics from
the West Virginia Bureau of Employment Services include
employment and wage data, occupational data and projections as
well as occupational safety and health statistics.
URL: http://www.state.wv.us/bep/LMI/default.htm
For
problems or questions regarding this web site contact campbell@conferenceboard.ca.
Last updated: July 19, 2002. |