COLLABORATION Creating supportive relationships between adult education collegiate

COLLABORATION Creating supportive relationships between adult education, collegiate institutions, state agencies, employer partners, and community programs. New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions

AGENDA WHY? – Starting with the outcomes and working backwards. WHO? – WIOA Partners, Colleges, Employer Partners, Community Organizations. HOW? – What makes for an effective partnership?

BRINGING EVERYONE TO THE TABLE!

COLLABORATION Collaboration is not a “nice to have” organizational philosophy. It is an essential ingredient for organizational survival and success. – Forbes Magazine. February 13, 2014. LINK: The Twelve Principles of Collaboration Activity 1: Three Skills Needed for Professional Collaboration.

The WHY? WIN / WIN Just like building relationships with students lays the groundwork for academic success, building relationships with colleagues lays the groundwork for effective collaboration. Pooling our knowledge and resources to achieve our benchmark requirements for funding. Modeling effective collaboration for our students!

DEFINE YOUR OUTCOMES FIRST TYPE? Academic Professional Technical Life Skills FOR WHOM? Students DWS Adult Education TANF CYFD DVR Community Agencies/ Non -Profits Post-Secondary Business Community ETC. Activity 2: What Outcomes Are You Seeking?

WHAT IS THE END RESULT? Serving the Students and Community! GOALS Student Retention Successful Completion Graduation Employment Fiscally Sustainable Increased Quality of Life BENCHMARKING Simultaneously obtain HSE and place into credit-bearing college courses Enrollment, retention, and completion within degree programs Industry credentials received Successful job attainment Wage increases over a 1 to 5 year follow up Cultivate exemplary professionalism and life skills Contribute to economic development via IET tracks

The WHO? Who should participate, who has a vested interest, who will be engaged? Who will act? If the right providers are not present with a common goal and buy-in, it is likely the collaboration will not succeed. So who do you choose to share your information with? Our agencies, schools, programs, and students do not exist in isolation and cannot go it alone. Activity 3: What Do You Know About WIOA?

WORKFORCE INNOVATION OPPORTUNITY ACT (WIOA 2017) Collaboration Between Title Grants 1 to 4: New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions (DWS), SER Jobs for Progress Wagner -Peyser: – Adult/Youth (Titles 1, 3) Adult Education (AE-Title 2) Department of Vocational Rehab (DVR-Title 4) Affiliate Partners: – Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANFTitle 1) – CYFD (Title 1 for Childcare Stipends) and – The Community Colleges! Four Workforce Development Boards oversee funds allocated for the State of NM from the Governor. Northern Board Counties: (Cibola, Colfax, Los Alamos, Mc. Kinley, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Juan, Santa Fe, San Miguel and Taos). Central Board Counties: (Sandoval, Bernalillo, Valencia, and Torrance). Southwestern Board Counties: (Catron, Socorro, Sierra, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna and Dona Ana). Eastern Board Counties: (Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Harding, Lea, Lincoln, Otero, Quay, Roosevelt, and Union).

DEPARTMENT OF WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS Tell Us What You Know… The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions' Workforce Connection brings together workforce development services such as employment, training, education, and more, in a customer-friendly central location where businesses, job seekers, workers, and employers can find answers to their workforce questions. This is referred to as a One-Stop Center. LINK: New Mexico Workforce Connection

ADULT EDUCATION Nationally, the field of Adult Education teachers are experts in researchbased best practices for working with unprepared learners. Students learn how to learn, gain rigorous academic ability, and foster strong life and professionalism skills. Tell Us What You Know… AE is taking the lead in IET development for across the state—allows adult education students to concurrently enroll in IETs, with objective of bypassing developmental education and/or obtain an HSE upon completion. AE supports development of professionalism and life skills with intensive coaching and advising, and workshops. AE curriculum can be career integrated, allowing for students to gain basic reading, writing, and math skills while learning a technical trade. Continued collaboration and reduction in the duplication of services between adult education and development/remedial education.

TANF—Cash Allowance The New Mexico Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, known as NMWorks, is designed to help needy families achieve selfsufficiency. Tell Us What You Know… States receive grants to design and operate programs that accomplish one of the purposes of the TANF program. New Mexico has received a $1 million grant to assist TANF recipients, in a referral process with SUN PATH. – – – Tuition Books Fees Supplies: Backpacks, notebooks, pens, etc. Required Program Materials: Scrubs, Stethoscope, BP Cuff, etc. UNM-Valencia leads the “ACCE” program in collaboration with TANF and other Adult Education programs to support clients in obtaining in their High School Equivalency.

DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL REHAB— DVR The mission of the New Mexico Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (NMDVR) is to encourage and assist the efforts of New Mexicans with disabilities to reach their goals for working and living in their communities. Tell Us What You Know… DVR assists with tuition, books, fees, and further financial assistance. DVR will provide the following: – – – Vocational Counseling and Guidance Job Search Assistance / Development / and Placement Pre-Employment Transition Vocational Rehabilitation Technology Training Post-Employment Services

INTEGRATED EDUCATION AND TRAINING Chart: How Career Technical Training, Academic Rigor, and Explicit Professionalism Skills Training Work Together.

WHAT STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDING STREAMS ARE AVAILABLE? How to connect and align students with the funding necessary to retain and sustain them? Ability to Benefit (ATB) – In-demand industry – Perkins tuition dollars for those without an HSE TANF – SUN PATH funding – ACCE Program for obtaining an HSE WIOA Training Dollars – In-demand industry – Other barriers to qualify CYFD—Child-care stipends DVR—Tuition/Living expenses HELP NM (SER) Paid Internships Veteran Programs Community Foundations Business Sponsorship —Ex: Chevron Mining is funding Taos’ Adult Education program, TECC, to launch a Solar Technician IET to launch this fall. Employer —Ex: Many health care providers will cover cost for credentialing. Rotary Club Scholarships for technical trades. Get Creative!

INTER-COLLEGIATE COLLABORATION How to find out ALL the resources available in your surroundings.

RESOURCES AVAILABLE WITHIN THE COLLEGE AND WITHIN ADULT EDUCATION Learn what resources are available within your facility: Academic Support – Tutoring, Veterans, Native American, Hispanic, 1 st Generation College Students Financial Support – Financial Aid, Edge Program, Enlace, Kellogg Grant … any additional grants Career Counseling Emotional / Mental Support – Advising and Counseling, Achievement Center (Student Services) Disability Services English as a Second Language and Citizenship Classes

INCLUDING EMPLOYER PARTNERS Begin the process of integrating employers into the education process.

EMPLOYER PANELS Provide descriptive overview and research behind IET model, i. e. —the three circles, IBEST, etc. Introduce employers to instructors and staff—allow time to showcase curricula. Students gain leadership and professionalism skills as they interview the employers. Excellent training for being an interviewee = practice being the interviewer. Allow time for employers to ask questions of students, staff, and faculty.

IET AND EMPLOYER PANELS IMAGES. LEFT: Three Circles Integrated Education and Training (IET) Graphic to Share with Employers. RIGHT: Employer Panel Flyer.

JOB ORDERS, JOB OPENINGS AND JOB PLACEMENT—THROUGH EMPLOYER PARTNERS Collaboration with employers = long-term success! Allows for notification of openings for a specific employer or within a career pathway. Word of mouth: “Our college produces great workers!” Reciprocal: – Include them in mock interviews. – Invite them to speak within the classrooms about Career Pathways and Jobs. – Provide them potential applicants for employment. – Job Shadowing.

HOW? How do you take the steps to make it effective and efficient? Host Regular, Intentional Meetings

A FEW ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIP (Information Source: Pulled from Adult Education Consultant Jeff Fontaine’s work and other leaders in the field) 1. Mutual Respect for Knowledge and Skills. 2. Explicitly Stated, Common Understanding of Values and Goals. 3. Co-Accountability, Co-Planning, Co-Evaluation. 4. Reflective Practice = plan, act, reflect, adjust! • Ongoing, consistent, and collaborative feedback. 5. Established Agreements (MOU). Activity 4: Teamwork, conflict resolution, professionalism = we are models for our students. How do we actually make this work? What are the barriers and how can you overcome them? Activity 5: What are your takeaways, how will you act on this?

CONCLUSION Jeanne Winchell DWS JDCC SJC Jeanne. Winchell@state. nm. us (505) 566 -3861 Nina Gonzales Program Specialist / JDCC TECC@UNM-Taos ninafeliz@unm. edu (575) 737 -3732

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