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Effective Sector Strategies: Learning from State Achievements

Discover successful sector strategies in a webinar on July 23, 2007. Explore policy leverages, funding optimization, and aligning state strategies with regional development. Learn about the characteristics, benefits, and challenges of sector initiatives and their impact on workers, employers, and communities. Gain insights on scaling sector strategies, building a policy framework, and evaluating results to achieve sustainable outcomes.

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Effective Sector Strategies: Learning from State Achievements

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  1. The State of Sector PolicyWhat States Have Achieved and Learned Webinar Monday, July 23, 2007 1:30 – 3:00 pm Eastern 10:30 - 12:00 am Pacific

  2. Today’s Agenda • Using Sector Strategies as a Policy Lever and Not Just a Program Presenter: Martin Simon, NGA Respondent: Jack Litzenberg, Mott Foundation • Optimizing Use of Funding for Sector Initiatives Presenter: Jack Mills, NNSP Respondent: Maureen Conway, Aspen Institute • Aligning State Sector Strategies with Regional Development Strategies Presenter: Larry Good, CSW Respondent: Gay Gilbert, U.S. Department of Labor

  3. Webinar Overview & Instructions • Hosted by NNSP and the Project Partnership • Conference call line • You are all muted to keep the ambient noise to a minimum. Presenters and respondents are not muted. • If cut off, click Info tab at the top of your screen and use the call, session, and attendee info there • Technology problems or questions – • Please call WebEx at 866-469-3239, and enter the “session number” which is 802-797-684 • Questions/Comments on presentations: • Type your question using Q&A function and select “All Panelists”. We will then un-mute you so that you can ask your question, then re-mute you • If you did not log-on in the right sequence (i.e. computer then telephone), we will not be able to see your name when you type a question, thus if you submit a question it will be read aloud by the moderator or technical staff

  4. Characteristics of Sector Initiatives • Address the needs of employers by focusing intensively on the workforce needs of a specific industry sector over a sustained period of period, often concentrating on a specific occupation or set of occupations within that industry; • Address the needs of workers by creating formal career paths to good jobs, reducing barriers to employment, and sustaining or increasing middle class jobs; • Bolster regional economic competitiveness by engaging economic development experts in workforce issues and aligning education, economic, and workforce development planning; • Engage a broader array of key stakeholders through partnerships organized by workforce intermediaries; and • Promote systemic change that achieves ongoing benefits for the industry, workers, and community.

  5. Sector Strategies Strengthen the Way States Think and Act On… • Competitiveness and innovation of industries and workers • Advancement of low-income workers and sustainability and growth of middle-class jobs • Leveraging and aligning resources and strategies

  6. About Our Project Accelerating State Adoption of Sector Strategies • Partnership between National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, National Network of Sector Partners, and Corporation for a Skilled Workforce • Roundtable for States in early 2006 (75 participants from 33 states) • Three tracks: • Learning Network of 6 states: AR, IL, MA, MI, PA, and WA • Policy Academy of 5 states: GA, MN, NC, OK, OR • Knowledge Exchange: Webinar series, sectorstrategies.org, Issue Brief at http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/06STATESECREG.PDF • Funded by Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the Ford Foundation

  7. Using Sector Strategies as a Policy Lever Not Just a Program Presenter: Martin Simon, NGA Respondent: Jack Litzenberg, Mott Foundation

  8. Getting to Scale – Policy Challenges • Changing the focus from a single business to an industry • Balancing state and regional decision making roles • Moving from pilots and programs to scale • Developing sustainable funding policies • Aligning key stakeholder missions, priorities, and resources

  9. Building a Policy Framework • Optimize Gubernatorial leadership • Share information and information systems to identify regional assets, gaps, and challenges • Coordinate action to address cross-system challenges • Align investments strategically across programs/systems to sustain efforts • Integrate performance information systems to evaluate results

  10. Showing Results – An Evaluation Framework • Measuring Impact on Workers • Measuring Value to Employers • Measuring Quality and Effectiveness of Partnerships • Measuring System Change • Measuring Benefits to the Community

  11. Optimizing Use of Funding for Sector Initiatives Presenter: Jack Mills, NNSP Respondent: Maureen Conway, Aspen Institute

  12. Developing, Operating, and Sustaining Sector Initiatives • Strategy: Competitive grants that leverage funding from other sources • Multi-year funding • Uses: • Research, partner involvement, and design • Services to industry and workers • Systems change • Example: Pennsylvania

  13. Using Sector Initiatives to Inform Policy Development • Strategy: Target an industry • Fund development/implementation of regional sector initiatives to inform development of state strategy • Use stakeholder perspectives • Change policy and funding to support sector initiatives in multiple industries • Example: North Carolina

  14. Institutionalizing a State Sector Strategy • Strategy: develop shared mission • Build interagency approach to coordinate financing and capacity • Target industry and worker needs – especially to support economic development and increase low-wage/low skill workers’ incomes • Redeploy skill development resources and augment them; also other resources • Example: Washington

  15. Aligning State Sector Strategies with Regional Development Strategies Presenter: Larry Good, CSW Respondent: Gay Gilbert, U.S. DOL

  16. Why Regions are Important • Economic and workforce activity is localized • Artificial boundaries are not important to employers, workers, and job seekers • Laboratories for innovation and transformation • Examples of State - Regional Activity

  17. Why State Sector Strategies Go Regional Easier for: • Alignment of Resources and Strategies • Market Segmentation • Market Penetration • Rural and Urban Strategies • Innovation • Re-Imagining People, Firms, and Communities Examples of State-Regional Activity

  18. How Sectors Align with Other Regional Strategies • WIRED • Clusters and Sectors • Workforce Development and…. • Economic Development • Community Development • Education and Training at all levels • Human Services • Examples of State-Regional Activity

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