1 Workforce Development Vic Rodgers Associate Provost Workforce

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Workforce Development Vic Rodgers Associate Provost, Workforce Development Harrisburg Area Community College 2

The Core Components of Workforce Development • • • The State plan Funding Sources Training providers Participants Partners, including non-profits Business 3

What is “Workforce Development”? • Workforce development is just creative problem solving, and spans the entirety of our communities. Some of the areas it addresses are: • How to help our elementary and middle schools interact with the career options in their areas • How to work with the high schools to ensure graduates are “college and career ready” by: – Working to tie them into internship opportunities – Working with the CTC’s to create an articulated pathway to industry credentials and postsecondary education – Broadening the training base for many areas schools who do not have access to vocational/occupational training – Providing resources (through the Work. Keys program) for schools who are under resourced 4

Cont… • • Working with the chronically unemployed or underemployed Working with employers to assess their skills gaps Working with economic development leadership The relevance for workforce development is that it is key to an economic developer’s efforts within a community. A strong partnership means a constant working relationship to find solutions, and to integrate opportunities for both the community at large and the businesses which reside within those communities 5

Understanding Occupational Data • Focuses your efforts for recruitment and on resource allocation • It also can help you assess trends as it relates to demographics – especially age • EMSI data: 6

Tools that Make WFD Make Sense • Skill gaps • Full employment • Aging workforce 7

The Work. Keys System ü Over 30 years of R&D ü Validated by EEOC's 1978 Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures ü Most advanced measure of workplace skills 8

The Work. Keys System § Utilizes three components: üJob Analysis üAssessment üTraining 9

Job Analysis • Uses observed and statistical data to categorize over 20, 000 occupations • These categories are divided into one of four sections üBronze üSilver üGold üPlatinum • Numerically, these are categorized as 3, 4, 5 & 6 10

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NCRCs Issued Nation Wide. Leading States: • http: //workreadycommunities. org/SC • http: //workreadycommunities. org/NC • http: //workreadycommunities. org/GA 12

Recruitment and Retention • Some key points: – With the low unemployment numbers, those who have the skills are already working – The normal demographics which have been the core workforce has shifted; new strategies are required to attract a different workforce – WEDnet is available – http: //www. wednetpa. com/pubs/WEDnet. PA-Annual. Report. pdf 13

The Role of Higher Ed • Community Colleges: – Career and technical training – Act as a partner for workforce development initiatives – Create a pathway for articulated career clusters – Provide innovative solutions for business – Provide a less expensive start to a 4 year degree 14

New Initiatives • S. T. E. P – Set goals – Take action – Expect results – Put in the work – https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=J 0 Qutsb 1 Rh 8 15

High School S. T. E. P. • • • Started two years with Pequea Valley Works with students “without a plan” Fulfills Chapter 339 competencies Currently 20 school districts An ‘on ramp” for pre-apprenticeship/apprenticeship opportunities • https: //youtu. be/0 zh. CFa. Hb. Mdo 16

Cont… • Harrisburg Promise • HHA, The Mayors Office of Harrisburg, Steelton Highspire 17

Cont… • Apprenticeship Programs – The Industrial Manufacturing Apprenticeship • Developed to meet manufacturing firms’ needs to upgrade the skills of the frontline production workers • Registered Apprenticeship program providing production workers necessary skills for the advanced manufacturing environment • Upskill current workforce or enroll new hires 18

Cont… • • • Hospitality Apprenticeship Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Medical Apprenticeships Heavy Equipment Operator Paramedic Working with local High Schools – developing pre. Apprenticeship/STEP/Apprenticeship pathways with multiple school districts this year 19

Cont… • YCEA – Workforce strategic plan – Engaging the hard to serve – Reentrant Coalition • Cumberland County – Workforce Development Committee – Bringing together industry for HC/AM/HEO discussion – Working with secondary schools to create a pipeline 20

Cont… • Workforce Pipeline Committee of Lancaster – Consists of 15 advanced manufacturing companies – WDB, EDC and local high schools – Meets bi-monthly – Will be jointly contributing to a “skills” academy for 9 th, 10 th and 11 th graders in Lancaster Co. 21

Cont…… • • • United Way Partnership Pennsylvania Partnership CA/Wellspan Franklin County ELL GED/ESL – Combined training 22

SUMMARY I hope this has given you a better understanding of workforce development and how it ties into economic development at several levels. Regional and local economic development needs to be an active partner in the workforce initiatives within their scope of responsibility, because the workforce is becoming a prime driver of business and industry. V. Rodgers 717 221 -1361 vrodgers@hacc. edu 23