Northern Colorado leads state in centralizing jobs programs

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Northern Colorado is marching in the forefront of a statewide movement to radically change Colorado’s system of delivering employment and training services to job seekers and employers.

The key to the change is that the new system, which will be implemented over the next two years in each of 18 regions across the state, will integrate into a single delivery system the confusing and myriad job-service programs.

Most importantly, each One-Stop operation will tailor services to fit regional work-force issues and tie them to the economic-development goals of that region.

Furthermore, each operation will be governed by county commissioners from the region,…