Success Stories
The Lane Workforce Partnership is dedicated to creating workforce solutions that strengthen local businesses in order to compete in a global economy and to ensuring that workers are prepared for jobs that will be available now and in the future. Following are businesses and people we have assisted..
Rebeca
"The WIA Program helped me get and there and so far, it has just been a great support to what I am doing and my goals."
Nikos
"We used training funds we received from the Lane Workforce Partnership to help our employees learn how to operate the new equipment and get up to speed with it. It really helped develop their skills and to grow our company."
Lisa
"It is so exciting to see the light bulbs go on when they piece all these job search puzzles together because job search is a big puzzle."
Amanda
"I love my job and I love working with the people that I am working with. I’ve been there and I can tell them that I am a success. I am standing before them telling them that they can do it because I did. I was very discouraged, just like they are, and I give them hope. And, that is what I love about his job."
Johanis
"This program has meant a lot to me because it has been keeping me off of bad situations and it is helping me become the person that I am.
I really want to help out youth stay on the right path and also becoming someone."
DeLeesa
"I hope and urge all businesses to consider using the youth internship program and I hope Congress continues to fund this program because it’s very much needed in our community."
Kaitlyn
"I had a very challenging childhood.
I wanted my son to have a better life. WIA helped me out tremendously and I hope that this program continues so that others can seek its benefits."
Cavey
"My WIA counselor helped me to stay on the right track and graduate from high school.
I’m excited about my future. I couldn’t have done it without the help of the youth program."
Sheri
"I was for the first time in my life unemployed.
I learned about Lane Workforce Partnership and entered their Executive Career Finders program. Because of the training scholarship I received I was able to obtain my CPHQ certificate that helped me land my dream job."
Janet
"I am so grateful to Lane Workforce Partnership and Next Step for giving me the chance to prove myself.
I can now provide for my son, and life looks so much brighter."
Cody
“Through this internship I found the job I want to do.
I’m learning a lot at EWEB and hope to be a future employee.”
