Advancing Indiana’s Workforce System  

Convening community leaders, business, economic development, education, workforce, and elected officials to build talent development solutions

The Indiana Workforce Alliance represents Indiana’s 12 nonprofit regional workforce boards, which drive workforce innovation, enhance training programs, and align workforce development with regional economic goals. 

Workforce boards in Indiana are charged by the state with providing a “convening table” for business , economic development, elected officials, education, workforce development, and human service providers to create community-based solutions for today’s and tomorrow’s workforce challenges to assure that: 

• Hoosiers have the skills they need to fill current and emerging high-wage, high-demand jobs. 

• Employers have the skilled workforce they need to remain competitive and contribute to local prosperity. 

• The workforce system is aligned Indiana’s talent development goals, provides integrated services, and makes efficient and effective use of resources to achieve better outcomes for employers and job seekers. 

Building and Sustaining a Skilled Workforce

The Indiana Workforce Alliance provides leadership that promotes and advances Indiana’s workforce system to ensure all Hoosiers possess the talent needed for communities to thrive and prosper. Local Workforce Development Boards (LWDBs) in Indiana have a proven track record of convening and coordinating workforce development efforts within their regions. They bring together diverse perspectives, including educational institutions, businesses, community organizations and job seekers to develop and implement effective workforce development plans that address the specific needs of their local economies and communities. 

Who We Are

The core members of the Alliance are made up of the 12 organizational leaders from each of Indiana’s Economic Growth Regions. These 12 regions support locally driven decisions and programs. Indiana has an integrated one-stop service delivery built on a standardized model to provide a flexible, unified workforce education and training system that consistently exceeds customer expectations. Both state and local workforce boards are committed to keeping Indiana business and industry competitive in the global economy. 

Indiana is part of a national workforce development system that is largely funded by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), which authorizes more than 550 local business-led workforce development boards that serve all 50  states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Territories to oversee workforce development services through a network of approximately 3,000 American Job Centers – what we refer to in Indiana as WorkOne Career Centers.  

Through WIOA, local civic, business, and workforce development leaders develop strategies that leverage funding and resources within their local communities to prepare and match the skills of workers with the workforce demands of businesses.

Indiana’s local workforce boards do much more than just administer federal WIOA. Indiana’s 12  workforce boards also oversee Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG), lead industry sector partnerships, provide youth employment programming, act as Registered Apprenticeship intermediaries and promote other work-based learning opportunities,  provide critical employment services to Hoosiers who need help in finding a -good job, help employers recruit workers, and often through the use of private sector money lead career awareness and talent pipeline development initiatives. 

They also provide support to the talent attraction and retention efforts of economic development organizations.