Jack Collins

The strategic plan for Workforce Solutions Providence/Cranston focuses on aligning core services to meet job seekers' and employers' needs, fostering relationships with community-based agencies, and implementing programs that result in job placement. It prioritizes demand-driven training, career pathways, and support services for individuals with barriers to employment. The plan also emphasizes coordination with state and local partners, leveraging resources, and using data to inform policy decisions and measure performance.

The strategic plan for the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) focuses on talent development, staff safety, communication, improving justice-involved lives, physical plant modernization, and increasing effectiveness and efficiency. Key priorities include strengthening recruitment and retention, enhancing staff training and well-being, improving physical and technological security, fostering respectful contract negotiations, and creating opportunities for justice-involved individuals to adopt prosocial values and behaviors. The plan also aims to reduce recidivism, increase workforce transition readiness, enhance quality assurance, improve data transparency, and optimize budget management to achieve organizational excellence.