The Northern Panhandle Workforce Investment Board, Inc. (NPWIB, Inc.), established in 1987, is one of seven (7) local Workforce Investment Boards in the State of West Virginia. The Northern Panhandle Region, Region 5, consists of Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel and Tyler counties and the cities of Weirton and Wheeling.The NPWIB, Inc. has three (3) local WORKFORCE West Virginia Career Centers in Weirton, Wheeling and New Martinsville. These WORKFORCE West Virginia Career Centers are at the heart of the new workforce investment system that emerged under the WIA. These WORKFORCE West Virginia Career Centers provide an integrated array of high quality services so that workers, job seekers and businesses can find the service(s) they need under "one roof" in easy to reach locations.