WES Global Talent Bridge has selected eight communities to receive customized technical assistance to help advance their skilled immigrant integration efforts. The eight communities join eight “alumni” localities from a 2018 pilot that will stay connected to the growing program by mentoring and other activities going forward. Thus, 16 cohorts across the country – from […]
Representatives from organizations around the country attend a convening in Toronto as part of the Skilled Immigrant Integration Program As the Successes Mount, We’re Looking Ahead This past year marked the launch of WES Global Talent Bridge’s Skilled Immigrant Integration Program (SIIP), a national pilot program offering selected communities the opportunity to leverage technical […]
WES Global Talent Bridge congratulates the 17 communities awarded funding from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to implement the Refugee Career Pathways program. Four of the recipients – organizations from Denver, Santa Clara, St. Louis, and Boise/Salt Lake City – have partnered closely with Global Talent Bridge in 2018 through their participation in its […]
Boise, Twin Falls, Salt Lake City delegation at Toronto convening 2018. How has the team progressed since the start of the program? The Skilled Immigrant Integration Program has provided a structured opportunity for us (One Refugee and the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Salt Lake City; College of […]
Photo: Emily Griffith Technical College representatives at Toronto Convening. Pictured L-R: Barbara Lindsay, director of Workforce Development and Career Services; Tiffany Jaramillo, career navigator; and Heather Colwell, student navigator. Photo by Anthony Castro. Q&A With the Denver Skilled Immigrant Integration Team How has the Denver team progressed since the start of the program? Emily Griffith […]
Louisville Forward, Jewish Family Services, and KentukianaWorks make up the Louisville cohort in the WES Global Talent Bridge Skilled Immigration Integration Program. We asked Bryan Warren, who directs the Office for Globalization at Louisville Forward, about the group’s progress. How has the Louisville team progressed since the start of the program? Our professional career […]
In 2017, WES undertook a number of initiatives to empower skilled immigrants and international students. Along with providing thousands of credential evaluations, the organization built the foundation for offering blockchain-based digital badges to its customers, approved the creation of a philanthropic fund to accelerate efforts to help skilled immigrants integrate into the workforce, and conducted […]
With the launch of the new Global Talent Bridge landing page on the World Education Services website, we want to engage visitors with robust content that reveals the breadth of our focus areas — at a glance. Features of the new site include recent blog posts; a list of tools, including webinars and training endeavors; […]
As we pass the midway mark of the Global Talent Bridge Skilled Immigrant Integration Program, which involves eight U.S. communities working to advance immigrant success, the Ohio team reports great momentum. “We’ve been very successful in getting the attention of Governor Kasich’s office,” says Nadia Kasvin, co-founder and director of US Together, Inc., a nonprofit […]
WES Global Talent Bridge’s Skilled Immigrant Integration Program convened in Toronto for three days in early June to foster cross-border exchange with Canada, peer learning, and community building, while increasing access to the national partners who provide technical assistance to the eight communities in the program. “We couldn’t have hoped for a better outcome from […]
The Refugee and Immigrant Forum (RIF) of Santa Clara County Professional Refugees Subcommittee is leading Santa Clara’s participation in the Global Talent Bridge Skilled Immigrant Integration Program (SIIP). The RIF subcommittee was formed in 2016 after a White House National Skills and Credential Institute convening. The subcommittee has created local initiatives, and meets monthly to […]
Our series on the WES Global Talent Bridge Skilled Immigrant Integration Program continues this month with the city of St. Louis, Mo., one of the eight sites whose participation in the national pilot program is based on their track record of supporting immigrant professional success. St. Louis’ work with the project has two focuses: Adapt […]
