The impacts of the recent recession continue to impact the employment options for America’s workers and heightened global economic competition is changing the skill sets needed to achieve gainful lasting employment. As Workforce Investment Boards, One Stops, and Community Colleges grapple with these issues they are in need of IT solutions that can help them efficiently manage the influx of in need participants in a cost-effective manner.

The integrated ETO Cloud assists these groups by providing flexible web-based solutions that enable organizations to:

• Improve employment placements
• Integrate case management and grant management into a single platform
• Reduce administrative expenses by automating intake, class registration, and reporting needs
• Improve accountability by linking staff and service provider efforts to measurable outcomes
• Decrease staff time by enabling critical self-service functions through web-based consumer registration, kiosks and swipe card/biometric check-in
• Focus on employer/job seeker development and matching, not administration

As the needs of America’s employers change constantly these groups need tools that can evolve in-turn without costly IT maintenance programs. The ETO Cloud allows workforce groups to continuously update offerings and resources without additional expense. Moreover, by promoting greater web-accessible trainings and resources, these organizations can better manage the demands and expenses related to in-person services.

These tools assist workforce development organizations to automate, track and report outcomes for essential programs including:

WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs

• Outreach, job search and placement assistance
• Individual employment plans, counseling and career planning
• Training services and job placement services
• Trade Adjustment Assistance services

WIA Youth Programs

• Work-based Learning
• Work Readiness
• Occupational Skills

Wagner-Peyser

• Job search, referral and placement assistance
• Re-employment services
• Recruitment services

Want to improve the outcomes of your workforce development efforts? To learn more about the ETO Platform and Workforce Development solutions contact us at pssolutions@socialsolutions.com

America’s community colleges play a vital role in America’s educational and workforce development efforts. The ETO Cloud provides Community Colleges with the tools and flexibility to track their diverse student bodies and better understand their needs and resource utilization.

Leading Community Colleges utilize ETO software to improve Workforce Development Outcomes, Student Retention Efforts, Grants Management and Reporting, Vocational Program Administration as well as connect Student Support Services with tools that include:

• Kiosk and Biometric/Card Scan that track services and attendance across campus
• Grants Management applications
• Self-directed student contracts
• Automated intake and referral processes
• Client and service provider assessments and surveys

By leveraging the ETO Platform, high performing Community Colleges can improve educational, workforce and campus-based programs, automate administrative tasks and improve grants management. These solutions allow staff to spend more time to work on improving student and community outcomes. To see our most recent community college webinar, Honor Role Approaches to Community College Retention Challenges, click here.

To download our Community College Brochure, click here.

Over the past 10 years, we have been able to grow our workforce operation from $600k to $10 million dollars through a variety of funding sources. Through ETO, we are in a much better position to provide outcomes data to not only executive members within out institution, but external members, and in particular, our funders.

- Robert Matthews Dean of Workforce
Mott Community College