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Arizona Build Your Community Network Webinar

Arizona’s Build Your Community Network (BYCN) Webinar is a one day, solution based, results oriented dialogue, that will build upon Arizona’s successful White House Conference on Faith Based and Community Based Initiatives held in May 2007. The Arizona project will focus on building relationships to promote “work readiness” and enabling under prepared workers to acquire appropriate competitive skills. Using local Arizona examples of successful relationships already existing between the Local Workforce Investment Areas (LWIAs) and faith and community based organizations (FBCOs), the BYCN program will demonstrate how these successful relationships came to be and the “work readiness” advantages they have provided to the vulnerable populations in their areas.

To engage as many new FBCOs in each LWIA, the State will conduct a statewide webinar using the video conferencing services of the Arizona Department of Commerce. The webinar will be videoed in Phoenix and simulcast throughout the state, including 11 counties. This will ensure that as many organizations and businesses (public, private and non profit) can attend and allow for more participation at the local level as travel will be within their own county.

There will be 4 segments to the broadcast program:
Panel: Relationship Building
Randy Reynolds, Founder and Executive Director of Community Renewal
Larry Munguia, Pastor, SOBER Project
Libby Wright, The Giving Tree
Trina Jenkins and Janis Mueller, Maricopa Workforce Connections

Panel: Building Political Will
Ramon Valadez, Pima County Supervisor
Mark Holleran, Executive Director, Central Arizona Shelter Services, Maricopa Human Services Campus
Lt. Phil Harris, Town of Buckeye

Presentation: Feeling the Economic Crunch Campaign
Keely Hartsell, Arizona Department of Economic Security

Presentation: Open Table Presentation
Presenters: Jon Katov, Open Table; Susan Hallett and Judith Fritsch, Department of Economic Security, Trina Jenkins, Maricopa Workforce Connections

One-Stop Career Center Reception/Tour

Either before or after the webinar, your local workforce area will provide a tour of the local One-Stop Career Center, explain the resources available, and encourage the FBCO’s to consider how these resources can benefit the populations they serve. At the same time, a planning session will be held to develop a strategy(ies) for the local areas and FBCOs to work together for the benefit of Arizonans becoming self-sufficient.