Events
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• 3:30 - 4:30 PM ETLearn how to engage with employers by using U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) industry competency models. Speakers will share their real-world examples and experiences with competency models to better align training to industry demand. Participants will engage in discussion about using competency models in a variety of sectors and types of organizations.
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• 2:00 - 3:30 PM ETSubstance abuse, and in particular opioid misuse and addiction, is a national epidemic. Drug overdoses killed about 72,000 Americans last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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• 9:00 - 5:00 PM ETThe 2018 conference will be held in beautiful Louisville, Kentucky, at the Galt House Hotel. All sessions will take place in the hotel. The main conference will be Thursday and Friday, October 11–12. Preconference workshops (Wednesday, October 10) will address topics such as Career Pathways Leadership Certification, Engaging Employers, and Apprenticeships.
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• 3:00 - 4:00 PM ETAre you a workforce board member or agency staff that is interested in learning successful strategies to strengthen the partnership with your state or local college? In this webinar, you will hear from three workforce development boards (WDBs) who have developed advanced partnerships with their community college system, and learn about a new guide, Powerhouse Partnerships: Community Colleges and Workforce Boards Working Together.
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• 3:00 - 4:30 PM ETAmerican Youth Policy Forum will be hosting a webinar the Pursuit of Equity: Leveraging CTE for Students with Disabilities webinar on Thursday, May 10, 2018.
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• 1:00 - 2:30 PM ETSNAP to Skills will host the webinar Better Jobs and Increased Incomes: Integrating SNAP E&T into Career Pathways Programs on March 22, 2018 at 1pm (EST). This webinar will focus on how career pathways can help SNAP recipients upgrade their skills and advance to higher paying jobs by completing training and obtaining credentials in industries with strong employment opportunities.
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• 2:00 - 3:30 PM ETThis webinar will focus on two new white papers: Afterschool and Workforce: Opportunities for System-Level Engagement, released by the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) and Building Workforce Skills in Afterschool, released by Afterschool Alliance. Both publications examine how afterschool and summer learning can help more youth develop the competencies desired by employers.
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• 9:00 - 5:00 PM ETThe plenaries and concurrent sessions will elevate opportunities to advance a national skills agenda through a range of federal policies, including work-based learning, public assistance, higher education, immigration, and funding.
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• 9:00 - 5:00 PM ETAre you interested in meeting other LINCS members who are using the Career Pathways Toolkit to develop partnerships and opportunities for learners? Meet Carrie Scheiderer! She has worked with adult and post-secondary populations for 13 years and currently sits on several local, regional, and national career and technical and workforce education boards.
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• 2:00 - 3:30 PM ETThis webinar presents the perspectives of YouthBuild grantees and Workforce Development Agencies in promoting Registered Apprenticeship. Staff representing YouthBuild grantees and staff from Workforce Development Agencies are encouraged to attend this exciting, dynamic exchange on November 7 at 2:00 pm ET.
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• 3:00 - 4:00 PM ETLearn the story of how one of the largest community colleges in the Northeast, the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI), succeeded in implementing accelerated pathways, prior learning, and a prior learning assessment of portfolios. From this experience CCRI will share its best practices and next steps for creating new prior learning policies.
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• 3:00 - 4:30 PM ETWhat are career pathways? Career pathways are the new way of doing business, and they operate at two levels—a systems level and an individual program level. At the systems level, career pathways development is a broad approach for serving populations that may experience significant barriers to employment and can substantively alter the way the workforce system delivers its services and its relationship with partner organizations and stakeholders.
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• 1:00 - 2:15 PM ETPlease join the Opening Session for USDOL-ETA's Three-Day Sector Strategies Virtual Business Engagement Academy on Monday, September 26, 2016, at 1 pm EST. In this opening session, business leaders in the health care industry discuss real workforce challenges in a mock industry sector partnership meeting. A facilitation expert will draw out from businesses their shared talent needs providing a model for how to conduct these types of roundtables.
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• 3:30 - 5:00 PM ETAcceleration Strategies Virtual Institute. An overarching goal of TAACCCT is that programs will accelerate learning and credential attainment for TAA-eligible workers and other un- and under-employed adults. Is your program gearing up to tackle this goal?
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• 2:00 - 3:30 PM ETThis session is the seventh webinar in the Enough is Known for Action series for the youth community, hosted by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Division of Youth Services and Regional Offices. The purpose of this webinar series is to inspire strategic planning and action now as the system is in the early stages of implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).
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• 2:30 - 4:00 PM ETThis session on Governance, Leadership and Building a Strategic Board is the second webinar in the Act Now Series, hosted by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA). Implementing WIOA requires effective leadership and the support of partners in the public and private sectors. Board leaders are working with WIOA stakeholders to implement strategies that align programs and provide high quality service to employers and the workforce.
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• 2:00 - 3:30 PM ETThis webinar will explore work and learning activities that support career pathways development and academic achievement. How can your program ensure that students are better prepared to persist in and complete post-secondary education and training to sustain careers that ensure a livable wage in an in demand field?
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• 11:00 - 12:30 PM ETStates and local areas across Region 5 are developing Career Pathways models to better align education and training programs with employer needs. This webinar will highlight two of those models to provide specific “how-to” information for others interested in developing Career Pathways initiatives. Presentations will cover:
