Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas can provide the skilled and trained employees your business requires. By contracting with local training providers and educational institutions, Workforce Solutions identifies potential employees for your company and prepares them with the specific skills needed to succeed.

When Parkland Memorial Hospital recognized the need for Licensed Vocational Nurses, they turned to Workforce Solutions. Together with E&K Nursing, Workforce Solutions created a program to train and certify Dallas-area residents for LVN positions, giving Parkland the skilled workers they needed. And since most training is funded through state and federal funds already allocated to Dallas County for workforce development, there was no cost to the hospital.

In 1997, Workforce Solutions administered the WIA program through multiple providers to train some professions in demand including nurses, computer programmers and customer service representatives. Some examples are:

• E&K Nursing Programs trained 247 licensed vocational nurses, home health aids and medical records personnel.
• At Eastfield College, 60 persons learned computer bookkeeping and skills needed to work at a computer help desk.
• El Centro College trained 14 disabled persons in computer programming.
• E.J. Kahn JTC trained 232 persons in the areas of medical records, computer accounting and customer service.

Additional WIA programs trained 383 workers older than 55. In the summer of 1997, the summer youth program trained 2,871 students ages 16 to 21. The total number of persons trained and employed in 1997 was 2,753.

By contacting Workforce Solutions, your company and community benefits from this support.

For more information about how your company can pursue a partnership with Workforce Solutions, please call us at (214) 634-WORK.