Workforce Solutions for America's Future	Application Deadline: N/A Program Dates: Usually 1-2 weeks, customized to group's needs. Number of Participants: 8-20 per study tour Read the FAQs Email Margaret Shonat for an application.
In early 1989, CDS developed a program entitled "Workforce Solutions for America's Future" which enables American educators, labor and industry representatives, state and local governments, and community organizations to investigate and selectively adapt the experiences of Germany and other West European nations in preparing skilled workers. The strategy CDS developed concentrates first on taking representatives from the groups mentioned above on study tours to show first-hand how different school-to-work systems work. Since 1989, CDS has administered over 25 study tours for Americans to Europe. CDS also plans and implements symposia which bring European experts to the U.S. for consultant purposes. Lastly, CDS has conducted feasibility studies and helped facilitate the establishment of demonstration sites to train young people for skilled jobs. A number of the current state school-to-work initiatives and apprenticeship programs around the United States originated as a result of findings on CDS study tours. Program Objective: To provide American policymakers and practitioners with an opportunity to view, first-hand, successful European school-to-work transition and education systems. . CDS will customize a program, provide orientation, transportation, accomondations, and a tutor and interpreter for the group. Partner Organization: InWent, Bonn, Germany. For more Information: E-mail or write to "Workforce Solutions" at CDS.