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National Skills Summit
Innovative Initiatives: Targeted Populations

Chapter 8: Introduction
Targeted Populations


These profiled companies are helping themselves by providing training and educational opportunities to people who are often excluded from the economic mainstream. By reaching out - in partnership with others - they are helping to remove barriers that have kept these untapped workers out of the workforce or impeded their progress. The result is not only a more self-sufficient workforce, but trained workers whose skills match businesses' employment needs.

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