Sector Partnership &
Career Pathways
Training
JULY 12 2016
Colorado’s Sector Partnerships
Kingman and Mohave
Manufacturing Association
Established in 2011, the Association is now a 501c6 nonprofit organization
including over 20 manufacturers represented by managers or owners as
voting members and supported by public partners in workforce
development, economic development, and education.
Objectives:
◦ Retain and support existing manufacturing companies
◦ Attract new manufacturing businesses to the region
◦ Contribute to the evolution of the community of Kingman being a unique location
regionally with a robust economy
Successes include:
◦ Development of an online freight-sharing program
◦ Created shared manufacturing training facility in manufacturing plant in
partnership with local joint technical education district
◦ Assessed and improved Industrial Park roads
Colorado Regional Sector
Partnership Convener Guide
A. Defining the scope of your sector partnership
B. Preparing to launch your sector partnership
C. Holding the launch meeting
D. Organizing the aftermath
E. Transition to implementation
F. Sustainable implementation
See www.sectorsummit.com/toolkit
Moving to Action
THE ROLES OF PUBLIC PARTNERS IN SUPPORTING
SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS
The Life Cycle of a Sector
Partnership
Continuous
Feedback &
Improvement
Launching &
Developing an
Agenda
Implementation
Examples of Implementation
◦ Branding: Develop a communications strategy to promote
the digital sector, attracting talent to the region
◦ Chamber of Commerce worked with business leaders to recruit a
local videographer willing to offer pro bono services; the team
developed lifestyle videos to promote digital careers in the region
and has promoted them at local educational institutions and
through social media channels;
◦ Training: Build skills in manufacturing, starting in K-12
◦ Two school districts and a community college collaborated with
manufacturers to develop manufacturing training modules that will
offer dual enrollment for HS students; manufacturers will provide
guest instructors
To get results, public partners…
1. Actively support industry champions in implementing priorities,
while ensuring the sector partnership continues to be industry-led
and industry-driven. Business leaders set strategy, public partners
support execution.
2. Coordinate across programs and systems to develop responsive
solutions to industry-determined priorities, aligning programs with
industry needs, and building stronger linkages across institutions and
programs.
3. Engage others within their organizations to ensure that the sector
partnership serves as the go-to source of real-time information on
what industry needs, informing programs at multiple levels.
Career Pathways
Question
What is the most important purpose of a career pathway in the system
or program that you work in?
A. Support individuals in getting into a program of study and
completing it;
B.
Aligning education and training providers with regional industry
demand to prepare people for jobs;
C.
Providing support services needed to help target populations
successfully complete a program, credential, or degree.
Colorado’s Definitions
Career Pathway System
A career pathway system engages education and training providers in a
continuous conversation with one another and with industry to ensure
that students move seamlessly through and among educational
institutions and work-based experiences to build skills and credentials
that meet industry demand and prepare them for jobs and careers.
Career Pathway Program
A career pathway program is a set of stackable credits and credentials,
combined with support services, that enables students to secure
industry-relevant skills, certifications, and credentials and advance to
higher levels of education and employment.
Key Elements of Career
Pathway Systems-Building
Critical
Mass of
Business
Leaders
Information
about the
industry’s
talent needs
Career Pathway
Support Team
K12
Workforce
Development
Community
College
Responsive,
collaborative solutions
to industry’s highpriority talent needs
K12
4-Year
University
Step-by-Step Guide: Career Pathway
Systems-Building
1. Build a Regional,
Industry-Led Sector
Partnership
2. Build out a team of
non-industry,
community support
partners.
3. Identify critical
occupations
4. Inventory relevant
education, training, and
workforce programs
5. Understand critical
competencies required
to perform effectively
on the job.
8. Create a system
for continuous
improvement
7. Create a picture of
the career pathway and
market it to all
audiences.
6. Build career
pathway
programs that
prepare
students and
jobseekers with
critical
competencies.
Simulation: Sector Partnership
Support Team
Greensville Health Care Sector Partnership
• Covers two counties in Colorado and was established in 2013 by more than
30 health care employers and 10 public partners;
• Four action groups:
• Wellness: Promote wellness in the region;
• Behavioral Health: Coordinate a behavioral health solution for the twocounty area,
• Workforce: Strengthen the health care workforce pipeline with a particular
focus on improving diversity awareness skills,
• Regulations: Change state regulations relative to Preadmission Screening
and Resident Review.
Scenario
• The
partnership has identified the following
priorities for action:
• Strengthen career pathway for CNAs: CNAs are a critical
need across all health settings (acute, long-term, home
care) but retention is a challenge since they are entrylevel positions with low wages. Employers want to build
pathways and opportunities for CNA employees ready to
advance to other roles in the industry
• Increase talent pipeline of nurse practitioners: There is a
large shortage of nurse practitioners in the region and the
region currently offers no nurse practitioner training
programs.
Your Roles
• High School Health Academy
Program Instructor
• State Department of Labor
Sectors Grand Administrator
• Nursing Department Chair,
University of Greensville
• Graduation Guidelines Manager,
State Department of Education
• Business Services Representative, • CTE State Healthcare Industry
Greensville Workforce Center
Director
• Instructor of Nursing at
Greensville Community College
• Dean of Nursing at Greensville
Community College