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Apprenticeships are good for businesses and employees By Melissa Boles, Program Manager When I graduated from high school in 2006, I didn’t even know what an apprenticeship was. I had been told I [...]

Approximately 10,000 young adults ages 16 to 24 are not in school and not working in Clark, Cowlitz and Wahkiakum counties in Southwest Washington. Often these young people are experiencing [...]

Nearly a quarter of the region’s manufacturing workforce is 55 or older and could retire in the next decade. Despite the family-wage jobs and career advancement opportunities, fewer young people [...]

Workforce Southwest Washington (WSW) is seeking proposals for the delivery of services to out-of-school young adults ages 16-24 (Opportunity Youth) in Clark, Cowlitz and Wahkiakum counties of [...]