CHW TRAINING begins 4/14/2021 - Enroll Today! Community Health Worker Training - WKPL*9015*65 - prepares students to serve as a Community Health Worker (CHW). Follow the link to learn more & register for the course - https://bit.ly/3eb336m

Southwestern Oregon Workforce Investment Board (SOWIB) is soliciting proposals from qualified individuals or entities to provide Youth Program services for those both in and out of school youth on behalf of the organization. Please visit www.sowib.org and click on the Contract Opportunities tab to access the RFP #21-507 documents.

Here are the Economic Indicators for February. The graph of the month features the employment loss by region. The Southwestern area of Oregon is in the top four areas showing quicker recovery. The Portland area still has the most jobs to gain back since the start of the pandemic. You can find the details on this graph here in Josh Lehner’s blog post. Local education is still seeing jobs lost due do the COVID-19 pandemic that showed the biggest losses in Coos and Douglas Co