Building Career Pathways: Roles for the Workforce Investment System March 28, 2012

1. Building Career Pathways: Roles for the Workforce Investment System March 28, 2012 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET

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8. Moderator Andrala Walker Office of Workforce Investment Employment and Training Administration U.S. Department of Labor

9. Audience Question 1 What are your learning goals for today’s webinar? [Select All That Apply] • To learn the basics about career pathways • To enhance your current efforts • To learn about new tools • Other (use the chat to let us know)

10. Goals of Today’s Webinar • Provide an overview of key roles that the workforce investment system can play in building career pathways systems • Introduce newly designed tools and resources by ETA to help states, local areas, and tribal communities implement career pathways • Learn about effective strategies and proven approaches from experts in the field

11. Context • The Departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services are working together to promote career pathways as a promising strategy: • To increase credential attainment and close skills gaps • To further collaboration among the workforce, education, and health and social services systems • Through technical assistance efforts, policy drivers, and funding opportunities

12. Career Pathways Resources • DOL Career Pathways Community of Practice • https://learnwork.workforce3one.org/ • OVAE - Designing Instruction for Adult Career Pathways – http://www.acp-sc.org • HHS – ISIS Evaluation for Career Pathways – http://www.projectisis.org

13. Featured Speakers Presenters Mary Gardner Clagett, Director of Workforce Development, Jobs for the Future Artee Williams, Director, Arkansas Department of Workforce Services Phil Harris, Assistant Director, Arkansas Department of Workforce Services Linda Preysz, Special Assignments, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Moderator Andrala Walker, Office of Workforce Investment, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor

14. Presenter Mary Gardner Clagett Director of Workforce Development Jobs for the Future o

15. Role of Workforce SystemIn Career Pathways • Career Pathways align major education, training, and workforce programs to: • Meet the skill requirements of employers in high-demand industries and occupations; and • Meet the skill needs of students, jobseekers, and workers.

16. Role of Workforce SystemIn Career Pathways Career Pathways provide a valuable strategy for: • Organizing and improving the effectiveness of education and training; • Raising skill levels, credential attainment, employment, and career advancement for all jobseekers (particularly for low-skilled populations);

17. Role of Workforce SystemIn Career Pathways Career Pathways provide a valuable strategy for: • Meeting employers’ needs for skilled workers, spurring productivity and economic growth; and • Building a comprehensive, coherent workforce development system

18. Role of Workforce SystemIn Career Pathways Workforce Boards’ Role: • The design and implementation of effective career pathways systems requires ongoing participation of all key partners. • Workforce Boards are ideally situated to pull system stakeholders together and ensure that pathways are geared to the needs of the labor market, of high-demand industry sectors, and to employers important to state and regional economies.

19. Role of Workforce SystemIn Career Pathways Workforce systems can: • Collect, analyze, and share labor market information; • Provide skills assessments, career navigation, and skills matching services, identifying skills gaps where training is needed; • Provide counseling and support services; • Provide access to and funding for training; • Provide job search assistance.

20. Role of Workforce SystemIn Career Pathways Strategic Functions WIBs can Perform: • Provide support for research, development, and capacity building; • Convene or assist in the convening of key agency partners; • Use labor market information to identify high-demand employers and industry sectors in the state or region; • Facilitate or convene sector partnerships;

21. Role of Workforce SystemIn Career Pathways Strategic Functions WIBs can Perform: • Work with partners to identify a common vision, mission, and goals; • Share existing or participate in carrying out community asset audits; • Compare the skills requirements of employers to the education and skills levels of the population, and identify skills gaps; • Collaborate with other partners to assess the region’s education and training capacity;

22. Role of Workforce SystemIn Career Pathways • Strategic Functions WIBs can Perform: • Coordinate with partners on career navigation and support services; • Help identify and pursue leveraged funding and partnerships; • Continuously reach out to community stakeholders, including employers, to build support for the career pathways system and initiatives.

23. Role of Workforce SystemIn Career Pathways Workforce Systems Already Implementing Career Pathways: • An increasing number of strategic Workforce Boards already carry out these roles and responsibilities. • Board members’ expertise and stature should be utilized fully in support of career pathways systems change and initiatives. • Where workforce systems are full partners -- system alignment, the leveraging of resources, and the delivery of comprehensive education and training services that meet the skill needs of workers and employers are significantly enhanced.

24. Role of Workforce System in Career Pathways

25. Innovative National Models (in addition to Arkansas and Wisconsin) • Washington’s I-BEST; Oregon’s Career Pathways (early, proven models) • Breaking Through • Accelerating Opportunity • Shifting Gears

26. Role of Workforce SystemIn Career Pathways For Additional Ideas: • “THE PROMISE OF CAREER PATHWAYS SYSTEMS CHANGE -- What Role Should Workforce Investment Systems Play? What Benefits Will Result?” • Will be available for download from Career Pathways Community of Practice in April 2012 • https://learnwork.workforce3one.org

27. Audience Question 2 How does your WIB currently help develop career pathways? [Select All That Apply] • Provide support for research and LMI • Convene agency partners • Facilitate industry sector partnerships • Identify skills gaps • Provide funding • Build community/state support

28. Presenter Artee Williams Director Arkansas Department of Workforce Services

29. Arkansas CareerPathways Initiative (CPI)Addressing the Education and Economic Gap in the State of Arkansas Arkansas Career Pathways Initiative History Implemented by the Arkansas Department of Higher Education (ADHE), in conjunction with Arkansas Department of Workforce Services (DWS)in 2005, and became part of a legislative mandate (Act 1705/Act 514) that mandates that ADHE, DWS and state Workforce Investment Board (WIB) work jointly to plan for the Career Pathways Initiative (CPI). All funds are part of the Arkansas TANF block grant. DWS Jobs for People. People for Jobs. D e p a r t m e n t o f WORKFORCEServices

30. Arkansas CareerPathways Initiative (CPI) Program Overview • The Arkansas Career Pathways Initiative (CPI) is a comprehensive project designed to improve the earningsand post-secondary education attainmentof Arkansas‘s • low-income Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)-eligible adults.  • The initiative provides funding for two-year collegesto develop career pathways programs that assist TANF and TANF-eligible adults to earn a marketable educational credentialfor immediate entry into a high demand occupation.  The CPI emphasizes such program components as job readiness skills, basic academic skills preparation, remediation and post-secondary credentialstied to high wage, high demand occupations. Intensive student services are provided for students in the program. • The primary purpose of the initiative is to address the “education gap” as a vehicle through which the “economic gap” can be closed. DWS Jobs for People. People for Jobs. Department of Workforce Centers are located on Two-Year College Campus D e p a r t m e n t o f WORKFORCEServices

31. Arkansas CareerPathways Initiative (CPI) Workforce Centers on Campuses DWS Jobs for People. People for Jobs. D e p a r t m e n t o f WORKFORCEServices

32. Arkansas CareerPathways Initiative (CPI) Eligibility…Target Population • Initiative serves current and former Transitional Employment Assistance (TEA) recipients, or TANF eligible students, currently or newly enrolled at one of the participating public two-year colleges in Arkansas or in a program administered by participating two-year colleges. • An adult caretaker, parent or relative of a child living in the home under the age of 21 deemed financially needy because they are/have: • A former or current recipient of TEA cash assistance; or • A current recipient of Food Stamps, ARKids or Medicaid; or • Earnings are at the 250% of the FPL or less DWS Jobs for People. People for Jobs. D e p a r t m e n t o f WORKFORCEServices

33. Presenter Phil Harris Assistant Director, TANF Arkansas Department of Workforce Services

34. Arkansas CareerPathways Initiative (CPI) Key Objectives • Enhance basic skills • Increase attainment of college-level certificates and associate degrees • Improve job retention, advancement and wage progression • Reduce welfare recidivism • Increase self-sufficiency DWS Jobs for People. People for Jobs. D e p a r t m e n t o f WORKFORCEServices

35. Arkansas CareerPathways Initiative (CPI) Services Delivered… • Institutional and instructional transformation. Over 300 pathways have been mapped for local high-wage, high-demand job categories. • Supports and tools to help students succeed such as tutoring, intrusive advising, and community outreach. • Partnerships and Employer Involvement for student support and employment. • Workforce Centers Located DWS Jobs for People. People for Jobs. D e p a r t m e n t o f WORKFORCEServices

36. Arkansas CareerPathways Initiative (CPI) • Arkansas Northeastern College • Career Cluster: Health Sciences • Career Pathways – Therapeutic Services (Nursing) • Labor Market Information from Department of Workforces Services

37. Arkansas CareerPathways Initiative (CPI) Arkansas Targeted Industry Sectors • Manufacturing • Health care and social assistance • Transportation and warehousing • Professional and technical services • Management of companies and enterprises DWS Jobs for People. People for Jobs. D e p a r t m e n t o f WORKFORCEServices

38. Arkansas CareerPathways Initiative (CPI) Program Highlights Over 24,000 enrolled, with over 21,000 certificates and degrees as of February 21, 2012 • Enrollments 24,678 • Employability Certificates10,322 • Technical Certificates 3,418 • Associate Degrees 3,336 • GEDs 424 • Certificate of Proficiency 3,624 • Certificate of Completion 325 DWS Jobs for People. People for Jobs. D e p a r t m e n t o f WORKFORCEServices

39. Arkansas CareerPathways Initiative (CPI) USDHHSSecretaryKathleen Sebelius visitsPulaski Technical CollegeCareer Pathways Program Secretary Sebelius participates in a panel discussion regarding the Career Pathways Initiative. DWS Jobs for People. People for Jobs. D e p a r t m e n t o f WORKFORCEServices

40. Audience Question 3 Does your WIB have an active partnership with its TANF agency? • Yes! We do! • Not yet, but we see the importance of collaboration.

41. Presenter Special Assignments Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Linda Preysz

42. Origin of WI Career Pathway Initiative • Joyce Foundation Shifting Gears Grant launched effort in 2007 • WI Partners: • WI Department of Workforce Development • WI Technical College System • Workforce Development Boards • Center on Wisconsin Strategy

43. Goal of Wisconsin Initiative • Introduce Systemic Change Across Agencies • Increase the number of adults who earn postsecondary credentials related to occupations in high demand. • Deliver predictable, reliable, realistic ways for lower-skill adults to get more education and job skills. • Initiate collaboration between employers, educators, and workforce organizations to connect education, good-paying jobs, and reliable supply of skilled workers.

44. Setting the Stage • Wisconsin’s Challenge • In 2007 there were 710,000 low-skill working adults in WI, age range 25-54, without a college credential, who earned less than the median wage. • 25-54 year olds – often unable to commit to long term training, or need ABE instruction before accessing post-secondary education. • Employers – expressed an immediate need for skilled workers in almost every sector, but primarily in manufacturing and health care.

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46. Structural Elements Introduced • Career Pathway: Curriculum organized as a sequence of embedded credentials, each of which is recognized by employers within the industry and region and qualifies a worker for a higher level job or occupation. This allows working adults to pursue “family-wage” postsecondary occupational education in manageable increments. • Career Pathway Bridge:Connects lower-skilled adults with postsecondary occupational programs by offering coordinated basic skills instruction and occupational instruction as part of a postsecondary embedded credential in a Career Pathway. The basic skills being developed are directly relevant to the adult learner’s occupational goals, and the Bridge employs teaching and student support methods that have proven effective for students with lower levels of literacy.

48. 2 years Postsecondary 1 year Western TC CNC Three 6-credit stacked certificates, including 3 credits ABE support. Align with 1-year TD and AAD. Fox Valley TC Accounting 3-credit math/accounting certificate with contextualized ABE. Credits transfer to 1- and 2-year accounting programs. Below Postsecondary

49. Policy Drivers • Incorporated career pathway guidelines into the WIA State and Local Planning Guidelines. • Revised the WIA 35% rule to include earlier steps in career pathways toward target occupations, making bridge programs eligible training options for WIA Title I participants. • WTCS Post Secondary education changed its occupation program development and modification standards and procedures to establish a process for statewide approval of embedded certificates or diplomas. • Student Financial Aid Clarifications. • WTCS changed its model for ABE/ELL programs to emphasize integration of occupational skills with basic education, delivering instruction by ABE/ELL and occupational teachers in a team or in simultaneous classes.

50. Statewide Expansion • Interagency Workgroup • Accelerating Opportunity • 11 Workforce Development Boards agreed to convene local E&T Partners to expand Career Pathway and Bridge programs • Directory of Career Pathways and Bridges • New RISE website, and Career Pathway Roadmap tool • Local tech colleges hosting open house for employers