The members of the six standing committees are entrusted with the responsibility of promoting the values and benefits of the Workforce Development Board. It is their mission to build an educated and productive workforce in order to meet the workforce needs of Gloucester County. 

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Committee Actions

Actions of the individual committees are overseen by an Executive Committee which provides leadership in the development of policy recommendations and the promotion of the overall strategic workforce plan. The County Board of Chosen Commissioners relies heavily on those suggestions. Therefore, all actions taken on committee level must be reported, and if necessary, action taken to allow the recommendations to occur.

Education & Trainings

Through the volunteer efforts of many individuals and the professionals on staff, the Workforce Development Board has been able to provide quality education and training consistent with the changing needs of Gloucester County employers. 

Graduates of Workforce Development Board programs are being trained in valuable life skills that make them productive members of society and give them a sense of pride and accomplishment.

Executive & One Stop Operations

The Executive Committee is comprised of the Chair and Co Chair of the 5 active standing committees. The Executive Committee oversees the policies, procedures and operations of the Workforce Development Board (WDB) and the American Job Center.

Apprenticeship & Industry Development

The mission of the committee is to support the development of a highly qualified work force that will successfully compete in the world's global economic arena. The task of this Committee is to work with employers and the education community to ensure that our future workforce is prepared to meet the needs of the employers.

Responsibilities

The committee promotes the career ladder/career development process through life-long continuing education that will allow workers to achieve significantly beyond their entry level job title. The continuing education process will provide added value to the employer and improve products and services.

Members

Members of this committee represent the educational field, private employers and the skilled trades.

Community Needs Assessment

Responsibilities

This committee reviews all workforce/community programs and services funded by the Workforce Development Board (WDB), evaluates community needs for literacy as well as the community at large, and makes recommendations to the Executive Literacy Committee for planning and projects. The Committee oversaw the provision of Adult Literacy and One-Stop services to the inmates at the county jail. The committee instituted informational sessions there were held at the county jail in order to communicate the services that the offered for the inmates. 

The population served by this committee also includes adults with disabilities who require services and support in their effort to enter the workforce. This committee also focuses on the status of public transportation within the county and makes recommendations vital to the workplace transportation needs of the community.

Disability Issues 

The Gloucester County Workforce Development Board Disability Issues Committee is a sub committee of the Community Needs Assessment Committee. The Disability Issues Committee promotes employment equality, opportunity, and independence for people with disabilities. 

The membership of the Committee strives to endorse the diversity of people with disabilities in the workplace by representing the widest possible range of constituent groups to include advocacy organizations such as:

• The Arc of Gloucester
• Adult Center for Transition (ACT)
• Abilities Solutions of Southern New Jersey
• Center for Independent Living
• Commission of the Blind and Visually Impaired
• Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR)
• Devereux
• Rowan College of South Jersey
• Acenda Integrated Health 
• St. John of God Community Services

Literacy Plan 

The Gloucester County Workforce Development Board (WDB) Literacy Committee is a sub-committee of the Community Needs Assessment Committee. 

Responsibilities

The Literacy Committee's mission is to ensure that all adults who live in Gloucester County have the skills necessary to function effectively in the workplace, in their personal and family lives, and in the community. Together, Rowan College of South Jersey Adult Continuing Education Department and the WDB Literacy Committee have instituted Workforce Learning Link at the Career & Technical building (next door to the Economic Development Center & AJC).

Membership

Membership of the committee includes: 

• Literacy New Jersey Gloucester County
• Rowan College of South Jersey
• American Job Center (AJC)

Community Outreach & Engagement

This committee develops and implements Workforce Development Board (WDB)/One-Stop outreach strategies that communicate the activities, mission, goals, and achievements in conjunction with the New Jersey Labor and Workforce Development, the U.S Department of Labor, and the County of Gloucester. Activities emanating through this committee include the development of annual reports, WDB newsletters to the business community, and email blasts regarding various events.

Constant Contact

The WDB agrees that the workforce system is the "best kept secret" and the fact that most businesses know little about the services and processes. To address this problem the WDB acquired Constant Contact, an online marketing company which offers tools for email marketing, social media marketing, online surveys, and event marketing. This tool is used to announce and recruit for the Career Fairs, to announce new hiring incentive offerings to the business community, to gather information through surveys and to share our WDB newsletter.

Resource Analysis & Budget Committee

Responsibilities

The Committee reviews all publicly funded programs with the ultimate goal of collecting and analyzing sufficient data to direct such funding to systems, grants and programs that will most effectively serve the customers of the workforce readiness system. This combined Committee looks also at the performance measurements negotiated between the Governor and the Secretary of Labor and makes recommendations to the board for local performance measures.

The Committee will continue to apply for federal, state and county budget policies, practices and guidelines. It is also the committee's responsibility to monitor training sites, with particular attention to job placement success rates.

Youth Development Committee

This committee oversees and allocates all U.S. Department of Labor and New Jersey labor funded youth programs. The mission of the Youth Development Council Committee is to provide a system that will encourage the youth in Gloucester County to be an integral part of the community through various flexible, educational and career activities. Realizing that students withdraw from high school for various reasons, the Youth Education and Career Center, (formerly Youth One Stop) was created in order to provide "at risk" youth an alternative way to acquire their HSE and be guided toward employment and/or additional training. The facility was created with the onset of WIA.