The West Michigan Regional Skills Alliance (RSA) set a goal to:

"Transform West Michigan's regional workforce development system (five MWAs) to be on par with the best in the nation by December 2010."

The RSA held a strategic planning session on February 23, 2009 to look deeper into national best practices, consider regional best practices, and set priorities. Notebooks were prepared for participants with a wealth of information on best practices in workforce development. Following is a list of documents included in that notebook. Click here for the meeting minutes (5-page report) that contain the agreed upon regional workforce development priorities. Click here for the one-page summary.

0.1 Notebook Front Cover

0.2 Notebook Side Cover

0.3 Notebook Back Cover (map of 14-county RSA area)

0.4 Notebook Index Page

1.0 Agenda - Strategic Planning Session

2.0 Meeting Minutes - Strategic Planning Session - Regional Priorites Report

3.0 Plan for WM to Achieve Best-in-Class in Regional Workforce Development

4.0 Summary of National Best Practices in Workforce Development

5.0 First Choice Career Coaching (FC3) Presentation

6.0 Boot Camp for Jobs (BCJ) Presentation

7.1 National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC) Flyer

7.2 CLEG Michigan NCRC Recommendation

7.3 KeyTrain to Support Michigan NCRC Skill Building

7.4 NCRC Coming to Michigan Brochure

8.0 Personal Skills Assessments Brochure ("soft skills" assessments)

9.0 Transforming Michigan's Adult Learning Infrastructure Report to CLEG

10.0 Skills Now - A Case for Urgent Action