Business Driven: Workforce Development in the Mid-Ohio Valley

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The Mid-Ohio Valley (MOV) Workforce Development Employer Solutions Program (WDB-EST) is a team developed to work specifically with employers throughout the MOV Workforce Region of Workforce West Virginia. The WDB-EST serves employers and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, or WIOA, participants within their nine-county area in West Virginia covering Calhoun, Clay, Jackson, Mason, Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt and Wood counties.

Fostering the Future: Concord University and Raleigh General Hospital Work Together to Provide Foster and Adoptive Care Training

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A shortage of trained and certified foster parents has developed in West Virginia as the number of children entering the foster care system continues to rise. This growing need for foster parents in the state has promoted Concord University and Raleigh General Hospital (RGH) to form a partnership to provide foster and adoptive care training.

Dreamland: A Q&A with Sam Quinones

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Every year that I have worked for West Virginia Executive, my main writing assignment for our annual winter health care issue has focused on the Mountain State’s drug epidemic in some way, whether it was “Fighting for Life in West Virginia,” which detailed the state’s comprehensive approach of criminal justice, treatment and prevention to the epidemic; “Voices from the Front Lines,” a profile on Jan Rader, Patricia Keller and Necia Freeman, the three West Virginia women featured in the Netflix documentary “Heroin(e)”; or my most recent piece, “Redefining Huntington,” a look inside the recovery, revitalization and renaissance of a city dubbed the overdose capital of the world.

Stephen C. Scott

Stephen C. Scott

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Class of 2019, WVU College of Law By Blair Dowler As a first-generation college student raised by a single mother, Stephen Scott knew he would face challenges during his time at West Virginia University (WVU). Instead of being discouraged, he used those challenges as a source of motivation for making his dream of becoming an…

Joshua Weishart

Joshua Weishart

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Professor of Law, West Virginia University By Cathy Bonnstetter Joshua Weishart, a professor at West Virginia University (WVU) College of Law, places great value on education. He has spent the last seven years conducting research on educational rights and is now recognized as a subject expert. He aims to influence lawmakers when it comes to…