Workforce Development
- Find information on meeting WIOA requirements, strategies to reduce challenges and broaden access, state-by-state data on outcomes, successful initiatives that can serve as models, and more.
Financial Empowerment
- Discover WIOA requirements and resources for financial empowerment, as well as tools to promote economic advancement as an individual’s work income grows.
Employment Strategies
- Find creative approaches to promote Customized Employment, get information on career pathways, learn about available technical assistance and training, and more.

How to Discuss Workforce and CRA With Banks

Describe workforce activities as primarily benefiting low- and moderate-income (LMI) individuals. Highlight data about current workforce initiatives; emphasize how the data illustrates the workforce system’s focus on serving LMI individuals.

Suggest how bank partnerships can strengthen current or new initiatives and highlight the projected outcomes for LMI individuals.

Share the ability of the workforce management information system (MIS) to track and report aggregate data that document positive outcomes for LMI individuals.

Share examples of how workforce development boards and banks work together to implement activities designed to improve financial capability and security.

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