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Workforce Professionals Credential

Join the Frontline Focus Training Institute's Workforce Professionals Credential Program to enhance your skills in supporting disadvantaged job seekers, low-income workers, and employers. Attend 11 days of training over 10 months and receive a certification. Apply now!

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Workforce Professionals Credential

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  1. Informational Session Workforce Professionals Credential To use phone audio: Dial: 303.248.0285 Access Code: 2520463 May 22, 2019 | 2:00-2:45 pm

  2. Frontline Focus Training Institute • FFTI delivers trainings and resources to help frontline workforce professionals build their capacity to better meet the employment needs of disadvantaged job seekers, low-income workers and employers. • www.cjc.net/frontline-focus

  3. Competency Model (excerpted)

  4. Workforce Professionals Credential • 20 individuals accepted through a competitive application process • Attend 11 days of training, which address all of FFTI’s core competencies • 1 day of training per month July 2019 to May 2020 • Receive Workforce Professionals Credential Certification on June 4, 2020

  5. Trainings Included • Intro to the Workforce Development System • Recruitment & Enrollment of Job Seekers • Intro to Coaching • Understanding Labor Market Information & Other Online Tools; Making Referrals to Supportive Services • Employer Pitch Clinic; Advocacy 101 • Cultural Competency • Retention in Your Program; Mid-Point Review; Capstone Reveal • Making the Right Employment Match • Engaging & Deepening Business Relationships • Using Data to Improve Your Programming • Creating a Positive & Value-Based Workforce Development Culture

  6. Credential Features • Networking: create partnerships with colleagues committed to the work • Cohort Learning: benefit from an intensive small group learning environment • Mentoring: receive coaching and support from a seasoned workforce leader • Capstone Project: develop solutions for pressing workforce challenges • Graduation Event: graduate with your Workforce Professionals Credential at a celebration event on June 4, 2020

  7. Class of 2019 • % Would recommend • % Feel more confident about performing my job duties • % Learned new concepts or strategies • % Made connections with others • % Feel renewed or reenergized about my work • Full evaluation report coming in early 2020…stay tuned! Insert group pic

  8. Class of 2019 Outcomes • Immediately after training… • 97% felt more confident about performing their job duties • 98% learned new concepts or strategies • 97% made connections with others that will help them in their work • 94% felt renewed or reenergized about their work • 99% felttrainings were well facilitated • 99% felttraining content was valuable • Full evaluation report coming in early 2020…stay tuned!

  9. What has been most valuable about this experience? • “The wealth of experience in the room and the new ideas and approaches to solve problems” • “being able to develop strong relationships with cohort members. This was a space to share my struggles and successes” • “In addition to the great research and best practices CJC shared with me, I feel better equipped to lead others and establish a more professional relationship with my participants because of the WPC.”

  10. Applicant Commitment • Attend all 10 training sessions • Additional time outside of training time to: • Work on a capstone project (5 hours) • Meet with their mentor (5 hours) • Personal growth and career advancement • Improve your organization’s services and programming • Collaboration and peer sharing

  11. Organizational Commitment • Provide applicant time to attend all trainings and work on additional projects • Submit quantitative and qualitative program data to support an impact evaluation analysis • Support applicant in sharing what they learned and making improvements at the organization • Attend the graduation ceremony June 4, 2020 • Pay for the training

  12. Cost • $1,000 CJC members • $1,500 non-members • Become a member at www.cjc.net/membership • Payment Schedule: ½ due July 2019 and ½ due December 2019 • Scholarship opportunities are available. Requests for support must be emailed to Cheryl Hester at cheryl@cjc.net.

  13. Application Process • Submit your application at bit.ly/WPC_classof2020 • Use the “Attach Cover Letter” function. • Application Deadline: Monday, June 10, 2019. • Applicants will be notified of our decision by the end of June. • First course is July 25, 2019.

  14. Additional Application FAQ’s • Can more than one staff from my organization apply to participate? • Yes, but… • Who is the ideal candidate? • A frontline workforce professional looking to round out their skill set, add new skills to their toolbox, and advance their career!

  15. Questions?

  16. Meet & Greet Happy Hour! If you want to know more, please join us for an informational happy hour with CJC staff and 2019 credential alumni! Date: Thursday, May 30th Time:4:30-6:30pm Location: Latinicity – located in Block 37 108 N State St, 3rd Floor Register online to attend! cjc.net/frontline-focus/workforce-professionals-credential-2

  17. Cost, Payment, & Scholarship Information Cheryl Hester FFTI Administrator cheryl@cjc.net 312-252-0460 x 108 Contact Information Credential Information Ashley Hamilton Program Associate ashley@cjc.net 312-252-0460 x 301

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