Greetings!

Welcome to the new layout of the Workforce Development Council Snohomish County newsletter! We hope you will benefit from the information provided in this quarterly update of what's going on in workforce development in Snohomish County.

For more on what we're working on, click here.

In WDCSC's new Strategic Plan, the Board of Directors outlines four strategic goals, each with a number of supporting objectives.  Goal One states: "A Snohomish County workforce development system that is 100% globally competitive."  Under this goal, the second objective states that the WDCSC Board will take an advocacy role in public policy issues affecting Snohomish County's workforce. Click on the link below to read an update on WDCSC's role in two important public policy issues.

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Finding a purpose
by Tre Davis, Second Year Member
Snohomish County AmeriCorps Program

AmeriCorps didn’t offer me a job, a career, a team, an education award, professional development, or a stipend. AmeriCorps offered me a dream, a life-changing and enriching process.

To read all of Tre's story, click here.

Lives Changed

Each quarter the WDCSC newsletter will bring you a variety of facts and figures showing the impact Workforce Investment Act funds, and the WorkSource Snohomish County system, is having on the lives of Snohomish County residents.

To see what's happening in the adult and youth programs, click on their respective links.

November News Briefs

• Self Sufficiency Calcular goes statewide-online!
• WorkFirst clients now co-enrolled in WIA programs
• WorkSource Snohomish County Centers now ADA equipped
• Take a fresh look at the WorkSource Centers

For more on these news briefs, click here.