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Workforce Board Hosts Conversation between Local Businesses and Workforce Trainers

communication, economic development, education, guidance counselors, skill sets, teachers, Workforce Development Board, workforce prep, workforce training December 9, 2016 Uncategorized webtech

On February 26, 2016, the Chenango-Delaware-Otsego Workforce Development Board gathered a room full of leaders from local manufacturers before a panel of people charged in one way or another with workforce development and/or employee training. Specifically, panel members were Joseph Yelich, superintendent of the Oneonta City School District; Glenda Roberts, Director of Career and Business Development for SUNY Delhi; Audrey Beckenstein from the Norwich campus of the Delaware-Chenango-Madison-Otsego BOCES; and Dawn Rivers, Director of the Otsego Now Regional Workforce Training Center. Such a set up might lead one to expect that the meeting was organized to give employers an opportunity … Read More

Regional Workforce Training Center Up and Running

classroom, Otsego Now, workforce development, workforce training, workforce training center, workforce training courses December 15, 2015 Uncategorized webtech

A lot has been happening here at Otsego Now lately. Most excitingly, we have finally gotten our space here on the fifth floor of 189 Main Street fully furnished and outfitted and it’s all really beautiful! We are winding up our first Employability Training class, too. It will end with distribution of certificates next week. And then we’ll be beginning our first DSP Training class at the end of this month. On top of all that, we held a really exciting and very successful launch event last week that earned us plenty of media coverage. Speakers included Senator James Seward, … Read More