Iowa Workforce Wire

Voc Rehab Helps Sioux City Man Roll Out New Food Truck Business

The Vocational Rehabilitation Services Self-Employment Program helped a Richard Hull launch his own food truck business.

With IowaWORKS Assist, Returning Citizen Finds Sandwich Success

IowaWORKS helped Ray Miller start a new career after leaving prison. Now, he's helping others.

Broadlawns Changes Lives While Building Nursing Pipeline

Broadlawns Medical Center is using registered apprenticeship to build its nursing pipeline while also helping its neighbors launch promising careers.

Self-Employment Helps Environmental Expert Overcome Disability

Vocational Rehabilitation Self-Employment program helps consultant overcome threats from her environment, reinvigorate career.

Working Together to Help Iowans with Disabilities Find Careers

Garrett Pierce is on his way to a promising career – thanks, at least partly, to a concentrated effort by several units of Iowa Workforce Development.

Ballard Voc Rehab Job Candidate is First to Complete Meat-Cutting Apprenticeship

Caleb Isaacson, a job candidate with IWD's Vocational Rehabilitation Services, recently is the first person to complete a meat-cutting apprenticeship program.

Externship Helps Waterloo Man Work Around Job Interviews

Vocational Rehabilitation Services helped a Waterloo man overcome disability-related challenges with job interviews.

How work-based learning made a difference for Jack Lindaman

For Janesville resident Jack Lindaman, an internship his senior year of high school with RSPN, an IT services provider, was eye-opening.

A regional vision for work-based learning

Work-based learning (WBL) can transform the future for students, and Waterloo Schools stands out for offering high-quality, in-depth WBL to its own students.

Local “Shark Tank” Workshop Brings Big Ideas from Iowa Self-Employment Program

The local Des Moines Area Office for Vocational Rehabilitation recently held a workshop for students in Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS).