Andy Moser and MWC staff recently met with Maya Raghu, policy and project attorney at Futures Without Violence. Futures Without Violence has created Workplaces Respond to Domestic and Sexual Violence: A National Resource Center - a website for employers seeking to develop effective workplace responses to victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, dating violence and stalking. Among its many offerings, the site provides a Model Workplace Policy for employers to adopt, training materials, statistics on domestic and sexual violence, and advice for supervisiors on how to broach the subject with possible victims.

As part of the project's outreach efforts, Maya and her colleagues are seeking opportunities to meet with groups of employers, workforce professionals, and human resource professionals to discuss the Workplaces Respond initiative. If you are interested, please call 202-595-7385. For a one-page description of the project, please click here.    
 
About Workplaces Respond: Funded by the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women, the Workplaces Respond  project is a partnership of the Futures Without Violence (formerly Family Violence Prevention  Fund), Legal Momentum, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape and its National Sexual Violence Resource Center, Resource Sharing Project of the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault, American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence, Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence, Stalking Resource Center: A Program of The National Center for Victims of Crime and Victim Rights Law Center.

About Futures Without Violence: Futures Without Violence, formerly Family Violence Prevention Fund, works to prevent and end violence against women and children around the world. In 1994, Futures Without Violence was instrumental in developing the landmark Violence Against Women Act passed by the US Congress. For more information, click here.

Jennifer McNelly, senior vice president of The Manufacturing Institute and former member of the US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration's (DOL-ETA) Senior Executive Service, and Andy Moser, president/CEO of the Maryland Workforce Corporation, recently presented at a meeting of the Maryland Association of Community Colleges. Jennifer spoke about The Institute's mission and initiatives, including their Manufacturing Skills Certification program, while Andy discussed The Institute's role in the Maryland Bioscience Initiative proposal to DOL-ETA.

Emily DeRocco, president of The Manufacturing Institute and former US Department of Labor assistant secretary, was slated to speak at the MACC meeting but another commitment - a meeting with President Obama - kept her from attending.

As the non-profit, non-partisan affiliate of the National Association of Manufacturers, The Manufacturing Institute is dedicated to improving and expanding manufacturing in the United States. In partnership with some of the leading consulting firms in the country, the Institute studies the critical issues facing manufacturing and then applies that research to develop and identify solutions that are implemented by companies, schools, governments, and
organizations across the country.

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