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Campaign for a Working Connecticut.

The Campaign for a Working Connecticut is a coalition that promotes the state’s economic competitiveness through the development of sustainable, effective workforce solutions to increase workers’ skills and advance families to self-sufficiency. In collaboration with local partners, National Skills Coaltion helped form the Campaign for a Working Connecticut and provides ongoing technical assistance.

Click here to contact the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund, the convening organization for CWCT.

Key Partners

1199 Training & Upgrading Fund
BAC Local #1 Connecticut
Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition
Capitol Region Education Council (CREC)
Capital Workforce Partners
Career Resources, Inc.
Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut
Charter Oak State College
Connecticut AFL-CIO
Connecticut Association for Human Services
Connecticut Association for Adult and Continuing Education
Connecticut Legal Services
Connecticut Puerto Rican Forum
Connecticut Voices for Children
Connecticut Workforce Development Council
Connecticut Urban Libraries Council
Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund
Christian Community Action
Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board
Family Services Woodfield, Inc.
Finishing Trades Institute of Southern New England
Greater Hartford Legal Aid
Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce
Keeper Corporation
Legal Assistance Resource Center of Connecticut
Literacy Volunteers of SE Fairfield County
Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford
Middlesex Chamber of Commerce
National Association of Social Workers - Connecticut Chapter
New Haven Legal Assistance
New London Public Schools
New Opportunities, Inc.
Northwestern Regional Workforce Investment Board
Norwalk Economic Opportunity Now, Inc.
Permanent Commission on the Status of Women
Regional Growth Partnership - New Haven
TEAM, Inc.
The Workplace, Inc.
Thames Valley Council for Community Action
United Community and Family Services
Windham Regional Community Council, Inc.

Major Efforts

With a new Governor elected and a quickly approaching 2011 legislative session, the Campaign for a Working Connecticut and National Skills Coalition held a webinar in November with workforce stakeholders from around Connecticut to begin thinking about big picture policy ideas for their state.

With National Skills Coalition, released Connecticut's Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs in October 2009, which generated widespread media attention. As part of National Skills Coalition’s Skills2Compete fly-in, representatives from CWCT met with members of Connecticut's Congressional Delegation in Washington, DC, to discuss report findings in November 2009.

Campaign for a Working Connecticut co-sponsored a press conference in 2009 on proposed cuts to job training and helped to get Workforce Investment Act funding approved in the absence of a state budget.

Publications and Resources

Reports:

Connecticut's Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs
National Skills Coalition and Campaign for a Working Connecticut
October 2009

Report | Press Release

 

 

Audio Clips:

Listen to audio clips from a press conference about the release of Connecticut's Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs report.

Policy Agenda:

2012 State Legislative Agenda

Media List