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State and local Workforce Development Boards (WDB) offer important strategic partnership opportunities for SNAP agencies and SNAP E&T programs by offering on ramps to career pathway training, a pipeline to high-quality jobs with local employers and access to workforce services and funding that extend beyond the SNAP E&T program. This session focuses on showcasing effective partnership models between state SNAP agencies and local WDBs and program alignment case examples that highlight the opportunities which exist for local regions. The session offers the chance to hear from workforce boards that operate as both SNAP E&T intermediaries and service providers, state SNAP agency staff that oversee SNAP E&T/workforce partnerships and learn about important findings related to SNAP E&T/workforce board partnerships resulting from the National Association of Workforce Board’s National Partnership Grant.
Presenters:
- Mala Thakur, Program Manager, Economic Mobility, National Association of Workforce Boards
- Kelly Middleton Banks, Senior Director, National Association of Workforce Boards
- Nick Codd, Senior Consultant, Seattle Jobs Initiative
- Haley Stayton, Workforce Program Supervisor, San Diego Workforce Partnership
- Jessica Clayton, Division Executive of Programs and Development & Equal Opportunity Officer, Spokane Workforce Council
- Sarah Turner, Section Chief, California Department of Social Services