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Steps up to STEM: A Career Pathways Partnership

Steps up to STEM: A Career Pathways Partnership. The Greater Capital Region WIBs: Capital Region Columbia-Greene Fulton, Montgomery, and Schoharie Saratoga-Warren-Washington. USDOL Workforce Innovation Fund Grant. USDOL/WIF will invest in strategies that:

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Steps up to STEM: A Career Pathways Partnership

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  1. Steps up to STEM:A Career Pathways Partnership The Greater Capital Region WIBs: Capital Region Columbia-Greene Fulton, Montgomery, and Schoharie Saratoga-Warren-Washington

  2. USDOLWorkforce Innovation Fund Grant USDOL/WIF will invest in strategies that: • Deliver services more efficiently and achieve better outcomes, • Support both system reforms and innovations that facilitate cooperation across programs and funding streams, • Ensure that education, E&T services are developed in partnerships with specific employers or industry sectors, • Emphasize rigorous evaluation and lessons learned.

  3. USDOL Workforce Innovation Grant Applicant : FMS WDB on behalf of the Greater Capital Region WIBs. 36 months, $3 M We have the experience of working together since 2001, including a 3-year 13-N Tier II Sector Strategies Grant.

  4. Greater Capital Region WIBsWorkforce Innovation Grant Proposal Description of Problem • Not enough people are entering STEM related career pathways to fill the projected needs of the Greater Capital Region

  5. Greater Capital Region WIBsWorkforce Innovation Grant Proposal Project Mission • To increase the number of WIA eligible youth, adults, and dislocated workers who are knowledgeable of and interested in STEM careers. • To create a flexible region-wide STEM talent pipeline system that links the workforce system, employers, educators and workers through a foundation of career pathways and life-long learning.

  6. Steps up to STEM:A Career Pathways Partnership The Primary Goals: • Promotes middle-skill careers, not just middle skill jobs, • Provides greater efficiency in the delivery of quality services, • Encourages stronger cooperation across programs and funding streams.

  7. Greater Capital Region WIBsLeveraging Additional Federal Funds Examples of Critical Partners include: • Adult Education • Registered Apprenticeship • Vocational Rehabilitation • Temporary Assistance to Needy Families • Local Education Institutions • CBO’s Receiving Federal E&T Funds There is no required match, but…WIF is looking for projects that leverage additional funds

  8. Greater Capital Region WIBs“Stronger Cooperation Across Programs and Funding Streams” How can YOU become a critical partner? • Be a participating employer or organization. • Use your own funding to support tuition costs for co-eligible participants. • Develop/offer needed training programs, including absorbing some tuition costs. • Offer NWRC training to your participants.

  9. Greater Capital Region WIBs“Stronger Cooperation Across Programs and Funding Streams” What’s in it for YOU, the critical partner? • Get a % payment for setting up 2-step plans. • Get a % payment for referring eligible participants who are accepted into a 2-step. • Get a skilled workforce at a fraction of the usual training costs. • Get a talent pipeline/career pathway started within your own company.

  10. Steps up to STEMProposed Activities • Marketing the advantages of a STEM career • Career planning exploration focused on Stem careers. • STEM workshops delivered through video conferencing across all Centers. • Short-term pre-vocational programs such as Metrix E-Learning. • National Work Readiness Credential (NWRC)Training.

  11. Steps up to STEMProposed Activities • Working with organized labor to promote apprenticeship programs. • Supporting a Business Intermediary (Center for Economic Growth) to work with WIBs and STEM related-businesses. • Financial support for two-step career training programs for employers and WIA-eligible participants. • Forming STEM Sector Partnerships and convening industry sector employers to develop employer-specific training programs.

  12. Greater Capital Region WIBsTwo-Step Career Programs Training costs are shared between the business/employer and the public workforce system. Business/employer must agree to contribute financially to at least one portion (step) of the career pathway. Training options include: • ITAs and Employer Based Training • Technical Credential training programs • GED/ESL, Metrix and other on-line training • Prior Learning Assessment (PLAs)

  13. Greater Capital Region WIBsTwo-Step Training Programs Step Two Step Two STEP ONE Step Two

  14. Greater Capital Region WIBsSTEM Sector Partnerships Columbia-Greene Health Care Sector Partnership Intended to meet the current and anticipated workforce needs of the Health Care Sector by: • Convening a collaborative effort of local nursing homes and health care facilities. • Developing a pipeline and career pathway for health care workers from Certified Nurse Assistant to LPN,RN, or other professional.

  15. Greater Capital Region WIBsSTEM Sector Partnerships SWW Manufacturing Sector Partnership Intended to meet the current and anticipated workforce needs of machine tool businesses by: • Enhancing the connection betweenarea machine tool businesses anda local training provider. • Developing a customized Adult Machine Tool Technology Program. • Building a pipeline of entry level machinists.

  16. Greater Capital Region WIBsA Career Pathways Partnership Q & A • Lessons learned? • How can we help you replicate this partnership? • Other? Thanks for stopping by…. Gail, Bill, Dan, and M.A.

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