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Are you a workforce or economic development professional, educator, or business leaders from around the country interested in contributing to the success of businesses?

Are you an expert in Rapid Response, business engagement, or sector strategies? Have you always wanted to be a published author? Got a great story to tell, and think your peers might benefit from your experiences?

Rapid Response encompasses strategies and activities for the state or designated entity to respond as quickly as possible following an announcement of a permanent closure, mass layoff, or natural or other disaster which results in mass job loss. ...

This document is a tool designed to help you ask the right questions when you are meeting with a business following announcement of a layoff.

With the requirement in the WIOA Regulations for layoff aversion strategies and activities being part of Rapid Response, tools and resources to support state and local layoff aversion efforts may be beneficial.