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Lay-off Aversion Initiative

For a workforce investment board, reacting to a lay-off is playing catch-up. The following program is a proactive Lay-off Aversion Initiative for your consideration. It is designed to identify and serve at-risk businesses before their downward economic trajectory becomes irreversible. The goal is to save both businesses and jobs, and even create new jobs, and elevate the relevancy and importance of your workforce board in the local economy.

This initiative is fully customizable to match your unique needs, but would likely be based on two basic elements:

Part One: Community Collaboration

Identifies and classifies available business services that are relevant for at-risk businesses
Helps to identify at-risk businesses in the earliest possible stages of difficulty
Establishes a central point of contact in the community for businesses that need help
Promotes the local Lay-off Aversion Initiative in the business community

Part Two: Targeted Industry Workforce Study

Contributes to the early identification of at-risk businesses
Produces (after a 4-6 month study period) a comprehensive report that informs the reader about the workforce needs and characteristics of employers in the targeted industry (or industry cluster)