In 2025, backbone organizations participated in training provider and participant site visits.
These visits generated observations, questions, best practices, and identified challenges.
The insights captured from these visits are categorized into 6 areas and intended to inform
considerations of participant experience and persistence needs.
Use this resource with partners, in sectoral partnership meetings, in 1ʼ1s with training
providers, or internally.
Examples include:
- In sustainability planning, when reviewing what you are already doing well or what
- can be improved
- In placement strategies, to see what can be done to support participant success
- In sectoral partnership improvement conversations with employers, training
- providers, and CBOs
- In internal participant process/policy/procedure improvement efforts
- In contracting considerations for CBO and training partners
- In assessing the CBO intake process or training provider accessibility to various
- populations.
View/Download Resource
This resource was created by Washington STEM in collaboration with Career Connect Washington for the Washington Jobs Initiative, funded through the federal Good Jobs Challenge.
.png)
