The Council's Goals & Strategies
To close the gap between the needs of employers for skilled workers and the supply of workers prepared to meet those needs.
- Advertise to youth about jobs, apprenticeships and other training available.
- Increase public awareness of job opportunities in Wyoming.
- Educated parents and students on careers and training in the state.
- Train and educate employers on wages and benefits.
To help workers achieve self-sufficiency and increase economic opportunity for all Wyoming workers including low-income, under-employed and unemployed.
- Promote use of self-sufficiency calculator in career guidance, to employers, and state agencies.
- Use state and federal training resources to achieve greater well-being of those at the bottom of the economic ladder (under employed).
- Support money management training in high school.
- Support Children and Families Initiative.
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