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2020 Retreat

“Workforce Development Boards (WDBs) have a critical role to play in contributing to healthy regional economies that serve the needs of business and workers.”1 CAWD Board’s retreat is to ensure that CAWD is positioned to:

• Foster demand-driven skills attainment
• Enable upward mobility for all citizens in Capital Area
• Align, coordinate, and integrate programs and services where

appropriate

• 1. DOL Strategic Board Tool Kit

Current CAWD Strategic Goals for the 2020 - 2023 strategic plan:

• Assist the untapped workforce in gaining the skills, competencies

and credentials required for in-demand, family-supporting careers.

• Increase brand awareness with our stakeholders.
• Align demand sector initiatives with workforce system and economic

development needs.

Retreat Survey: To ensure a productive retreat dialogue and discussion, board member ideas, viewpoints, and perspectives prior to the retreat are required. This information would be captured via a survey. Sample Questions/Topics for survey:

• CAWD’s: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
• Identification of critical issues facing workforce in our region.
• Actions necessary to be taken to address current challenges and projected

future challenges.

• A review of the mission and vision statements, and their applicability to the

CAWD and its environment today and in the future.

• Rating of the CAWD’s existing strategies.
• Specific objectives to be accomplished as a result of the retreat.