Your community's talent pipeline has a gap — and it starts long before anyone reaches a workforce board. This session gives K–12 leaders, workforce professionals, and employers a concrete framework for building cross-sector ecosystems that create opportunity upstream, before a crisis ever occurs.

Why You Should Register:

• Understand why prevention-first workforce systems consistently outperform crisis-response models in long-term outcomes.
• Identify the structural gaps — silos, misaligned metrics, weak employer relationships — that quietly break local ecosystems.
• Discover what early career exposure actually does to learner persistence, training completion, and post-placement retention.
• Apply a Partner Mapping framework to pinpoint who's missing from your ecosystem and how to bring them in.
• Reframe employer engagement from a charity ask into a co-designed talent partnership built on shared accountability.
• Learn which federal and state policy levers, including WIOA, Perkins V, and Second Chance Act programs, create real opportunities for cross-sector alignment right now.

Speakers:

• Robert T. David Sr, Violence Prevention Manager, City Manager's Office, City of Danville
• Kraig Kistinger, Director of Human Resources, National Tube Supply
• Johnnie-Lynn Crosby, Director, Workforce & Industry Engagement, Transfr
• Kate Kimmer, Senior Director of Special Populations Initiatives, Transfr