Take a look at the your award-winning Second Chance in the Mayor's press release!
November 10, 2010 - Baltimore City and Baltimore County host fourth annual awards ceremony celebrating "Regionalism that Works" Five employers receive Baltimore Regional Workforce Innovations Awards for innovative approaches to building and strengthening workforce
Baltimore, MD - Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Baltimore County Executive James T. Smith, Jr., along with the Baltimore Workforce Investment Board and Baltimore County Workforce Development Council, honored the recipients of the fourth annual Baltimore Regional Workforce Innovations Awards this evening at the Sheraton Baltimore North in Towson. These awards were presented to area businesses that exemplify innovative approaches to workforce development. The winning businesses and organizations below were selected from nominations received in the following five categories:
...Overcoming Barriers to Employment and Retention -- Second Chance is a nonprofit organization delivering training and employment programs that promote and encourage each participant to achieve lasting results in the emerging field of 'green' careers. It creates employment for and retrains ex-offenders and displaced workers in deconstruction methods. Second Chance participants learn how to reclaim building material in order to reduce the demolition debris that is overloading landfills, renew valuable materials, and preserve the region's rich architectural heritage.
"It is important to recognize local businesses that are using innovative techniques to cultivate productive teams of employees who help to create successful organizations," said Mayor Rawlings-Blake. "The organizations honored today demonstrate unique ways to prepare workers, retain and improve the skills of current workers, and reach out to the next generation -- our future workforce."
"The Workforce Innovations Award winners clearly demonstrate that business has a significant role to play in the development of a skilled and talented workforce. Their efforts, whether in Baltimore County or Baltimore City strengthen our entire region as a whole," said County Executive Smith. "Each jurisdiction may be separated by a line on a map, but what happens in the county affects the city and vice versa. That is why the city and the county work together time after time -- because we know that our commitment to collaboration benefits our entire region."
This year's awards ceremony featured the addition of the Innovator Award -- an honor bestowed upon one of the five winning organizations that exemplified innovation in an area that is especially crucial to our future competitiveness. This year's award went to CitiFinancial North America for their success in creating an initiative that supports the professional growth and development of their high potential employees.
"We identify those people who have the ability, aspiration and the engagement to rise to much higher levels in the organization," said CitiFinancial North America's Senior Vice President and Director of Talent and Organizational Development Shari Ekelchik. "We work with them to create individual development plans and identify development areas that might be non-traditional."
Baltimore Regional Workforce Innovations is the new name for the Baltimore Regional Employer Institute that was launched four years ago as a partnership initiative between Baltimore City's and Baltimore County's workforce development offices.
The Employer Awards event was organized by Baltimore City's Mayor's Office of Employment Development and Baltimore County's Office of Workforce Development in order to assist their efforts in promoting successful workforce development initiatives for their customers.
Sponsors contributing to the 2010 Baltimore Regional Workforce Innovations Awards include MedStar Health, Baltimore County Public Library, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Sinai Hospital, Verizon, Whiting-Turner, University of Maryland Medical System, BITHGROUP Technologies, Wachs Water Services, and the Daily Record.
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