Workforce YOU

Workers Face Challenges. Employers Do Too.

Workforce YOU is dedicated to bringing together key stakeholders to tackle challenges such as childcare, transportation, education, and housing.

Coming April 29: Workforce YOU Opportunity Expo – a College, Trade, Career, and Resources Expo!

Pre-register HERE or with the QR code below

Workforce YOU’s Opportunity Expo: College, Trade, Career, &Resources Fair is an outreach provided to students, businesses, educational institutions, trade organizations, and area resource providers to enhance networking and training opportunities for new and returning learners, and provide resource connections between business, education, community supports, and workers.

Our key stakeholders include a broad spectrum of participants: communities, businesses, government entities, for-profit and non-profit organizations, healthcare providers, educational institutions, and individuals.

When challenges negatively impact people and employers, the entire community is affected. Workforce YOU creates a united effort to solve these problems, creating positive outcomes for everyone involved.

A new business-oriented approach to addressing Missouri’s chronic child care crisis is the focus of a report just published by west central Missouri’s New Growth Women’s Business Center with University of Missouri Extension. The report’s findings contribute to local and state efforts to address the significant economic, community, and family challenges that now exist for Missouri with too few early child care and education options.

Download and read the whole report at

Missouri Child Care Report: Solving the Puzzle