Workforce Development
Workforce Development is a key priority for local and state government agencies focused on enhancing their communities’ skills, employability, and productivity. By investing in training programs, education, and job placement services, governments can help create a robust labor force that meets the demands of evolving industries. This directory offers articles on workforce development and related topics, like economic development, which examines strategies for fostering job creation and attracting business investments to stimulate regional growth.
Fire departments across New York will open their doors for the 14th annual RecruitNY Weekend, recruiting new volunteers through community connections
Consider these gifts and tips for showing your appreciation during National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week
Longtime small businesses can apply for the $5,000 grants for marketing, business process modernization and improving technology
The Cognizant Center for the Future of Work is hosting a free webinar about future smart city jobs on June 11, 2019.
Dispatchers face a series of stressors that affect mental health. Public safety leaders can take action to address dispatcher PTSD and traumas
Partnerships and outreach efforts that focus on training and sharing impactful stories of victims and their advocates are essential
Each year during the second week of April, public safety telecommunicators are honored. Here are three ways to thank them publicly
Learn about Maryland’s role in U.S. cybersecurity, and about the various cybersecurity categories.
The first dispatcher reclassification request was rejected in 2016 by the federal government due to a lack of understanding about the training and administration requirements of their first responder duties.
A 911 dispatcher family survey will incorporate the point of view of family and close friends into research on the critical stress experienced by dispatchers in public safety and emergency communications
The 911 SAVES Act would update OMB’s 911 dispatcher classification to reflect the role in directing emergency response and providing lifesaving emergency medical instruction, increasing training, funding and occupation protection.
Members of Congress propose the Equality Act to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in the United States.
U.S. Congresswoman Norma J. Torres, D-Ca., is working to reclassify 911 operators as first responders after spending 17 years as a 911 dispatcher for the Los Angeles Police Department.
California began to develop TERT -- dispatcher mutual aid -- in 2017 with its first deployments needed quickly. A total of 144 dispatchers -- from 30 outside agencies -- served as mutual aid resources during the 2018 Camp Fire.
The Telecommunicator Emergency Response Taskforce (TERT) Initiative is developing dispatcher mutual aid for disaster response. Practitioners urge thinking ahead on TERT to help public safety agencies get through large-scale disasters.
As part of efforts to address terrorism, domestic terrorism and mass casualty incidents, DHS offers an explanatory video and fact sheet on the Pathways to Violence.
Improving trust and efficiency was the top agenda for police leaders at Entrust conference.
Amazon announced that New York state and politicians local to Long Island City have made it clear that they oppose HQ2, so the company will not move forward.
San Bernardino County’s self-funded workers comp system was investigated following a 2015 mass shooting attack. Implementing advocacy-based claims management may better manage treatment for victims.
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