Higher Education and Workforce Development

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Higher Education and Workforce Development

• THE FOCUS
• Expand higher education opportunities and develop
  the workforce preparation infrastructure to
  support sustained, long-term economic vitality.

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Higher Education and Workforce Development

• Work Group Goals
• Create a demand-driven workforce investment
  system that supports the targeted industry
  clusters
• Creating a college-going culture
• Develop comprehensive training systems for health
  care
• Work Group Conveners
• Secretary Victoria Bradshaw
• California Labor Workforce Development Agency
• Lorraine Salazar
• Sals Mexican Restaurant
• Work Group Partners
• SJV Workforce Investment Board directors and
  staff
• Central Valley Higher Education Consortium
  members
• K-12 Education
• Economic Development

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Higher Education and Workforce Development

• Todays discussion focus
• Create a demand-driven workforce investment
  system that supports the target clusters
• Employment Study and Gap Analysis
• Work Ready Certificate
• Regionwide Business Intelligence Tools
• Available Training Funds
• Alignment of Vocational and Career Technical
  Education with Target Industries

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Regionwide Employment Study and Gap Analysis

• Objective
• Compile up-to-date and reliable SJV labor market
  information
• Action
• Survey under way of 3,000 employers across the 10
  county SJVP region in 5 targeted industry
  sectors.
• The survey is being conducted for all occupations
  in each of the target industries and gather
  information on
• The required skills and educational levels for
  the jobs
• Job requirements/hiring criteria for each job
• Projected future demand for the jobs (Current, 1
  and 3 years)
• Copies of Job Descriptions for each job
• Career Ladders/Lattices can then be developed for
  the local areas
• Reports to be published in April 2008
• Data will be used to evaluate training capacity
  for Vocational Education regionwide. Work with
  our community colleges to expand if needed.
• Support Requested
• Ongoing studies which will require additional
  funds need to be completed
• Funding for Web site updating and marketing
  materials

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Gap Analysis - Local Outcome

• Objective
• To use Gap Analysis data to strategically seek
  additional funding (DOL Grant and CAA grant) and
  to expand training opportunities to meet employer
  and student need.
• Action
• Red Team. Representatives from Community Colleges
  examined current training availability to meet
  employers demand.
• Developed a strategic plan to increase training
  capacity
• New Capacity was developed
• FCC Manufacturing Automotive
• Training Institute Phlebotomy Pharmacy
  Technicians
• Reedley Mechanized Agriculture, Health Care
  Manufacturing
• North Centers Information Systems Healthcare
• West Hills College Coalinga Logistics,
  Maintenance Mechanic
• West Hills College Lemoore Maintenance
  Mechanic, Health Care Sterile Processing

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Work Ready Certificate

• Objective
• Address workforce supply on a regional basis
• Action
• Work Ready Certificate a standardized system and
  associated training across the region is
  implemented
• Certificate validates that an individual has
  certain essential skills important across a range
  of jobs, employers, job seekers, economic
  developers, and educators.
• Support Requested
• Funding to increase job seekers who can obtain
  certificate and outreach to employers on how they
  can use this new system in their hiring process

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Regionwide Business Intelligence Tools

• Objective
• Implementation of regionwide intelligence tools
• Action
• Two intelligence tools procured and implemented
• Executive Pulse. An Internet accessible program
  designed to collect information about businesses
  and their present and future planning needs.
• The WIBs Business Specialists staff now have
  access to use this program when serving local
  businesses and will begin to outreach to other
  partners
• The Connectory. n Internet accessible program
  designed as a business to business directory to
  profile businesses and encourage local
  interaction for supply chain needs.
• Support Requested
• Outreach to Economic Development and Higher
  Education partners to utilize this program.
• Funding to extend program licenses.

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Training Funds

• Objective
• Create a just-in-time training fund
• Action
• San Joaquin Valley Community College Consortium
  established 500,000 fund through use of ETP
  dollars
• Available to businesses in the region to provide
  skills upgrade training for their employees
• Support Requested
• Funds to provide skill training to unemployed or
  underemployed individuals in the San Joaquin
  Valley that will assist them in securing jobs in
  high-demand, well-paying jobs in targeted
  industry clusters.
• Amount requested is 500,000

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Alignment of Vocational and Career Technical
Education with Target Industries

• Objective
• Aligning vocational and career technical
  education with target industries
• Action
• Convene team of ROP leaders and other experts
  regionwide to assess existing career technical
  education, identifying gaps for meeting needs of
  target industry clusters.
• Convened group for SB 70 funds.
• Four, sub regional CTE Community Collaborative
  application to move forward
• Each application requesting up to 450,000.
• Support Requested
• Letters of Support for regionwide efforts.
• Identification of funding.

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Higher Education and Workforce Development

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For updates and more information,
visit www.sjvpartnership.org