Nebraska Career Pathways Project

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Nebraska Career Pathways Project
8/31/06
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Main Menu

• Overview
• Partner Collaboration
• Pathways Status

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Overview

• Mission
• History Background
• Reasons for Success
• Structure
• Goals

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Mission
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
Status

• Ensure that our workforce is prepared to meet the
  needs of our growth industries allowing
  businesses in Nebraska to thrive and attract
  citizens who are productive, committed and
  fulfilled.
• Educate young people and adults in job transition
  for the excellent employment opportunities
  available in Nebraska.

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History and Background
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• Background
• Dept of Econ Development
• Targeted Industry Study
• Nebraska Career Education
• New model for career education
• History
• May 2004 National Governors Forum
• July 2004 First meeting Policy Leadership
  Team, forerunner of todays FutureForce

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Reasons for Success
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• Why FutureForce Nebraska?
• Meets the greater needs of the state in education
  and workforce training
• Built on principles of collaboration, networking
  and building on strengths
• Provides a flexible, common sense approach to
  problems and opportunities that cross many
  jurisdictions

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Structure Membership
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• Organizational Structure

State Executive Board
State Pathway Steering Committee
Career Pathway General Committees
Career Pathway Project Workgroups
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Goals
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• Increase career awareness
• Increase alignment and ease transistions
• Become a national leader
• Look to the future

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Increase Career Awareness
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• Collaborate with and support citizens use of
  www.nebraskacareerconnections.org
• Work with NE Workforce Development One-Stop
  Centers across the state to increase awareness to
  adults in transition
• Support awareness efforts in schools by pathway
  committees

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Increase Alignment Ease Transitions
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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Skills, knowledge and attitudes needed for
growth in the future
FUTURE
THE GAP
Current skills, knowledge and attitudes
TODAY
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Become a National Leader
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• Forge collaborative K-20 education and business
  partnerships
• Craft and adopt best practices in pathway process
  and development

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Look to the future
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• Remain responsive to workforce development and
  ongoing training needs of employers and
  industries to sustain a knowledgeable, trained
  and skilled workforce in both rural and urban
  state areas.
• Build capacity to provide additional services

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Partner Collaboration
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• Inclusive approach to partner collaboration
• Business, Labor and Industry
• Educational institutions
• State and local government agencies

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Business Industry Partners
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• Individual Business and Industry
• Industry Associations
• Organized Labor
• Chambers of Commerce
• Economic Development Agencies

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Educational Institution Partners
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• Education
• University of Nebraska
• Nebraska State College System
• Private Colleges Universities
• Nebraska Community Colleges
• Private Career Schools
• K-12 School Administrators
• K-20 Faculty

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Government Agency Partners
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• State Agencies
• Economic Development
• Education
• Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Ed
• Labor (Workforce Development)
• Health Human Services
• Roads
• Elected Officials
• Congressman Tom Osbornes Office
• Nebraska Legislature
• Governors Office

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Career Pathway Committees
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• Health sciences
• Industrial manufacturing
• Commercial construction
• Transportation, warehousing, distribution, and
  logistics
• Entrepreneurship
• Starting in Fall 2006
• Financial services/Insurance
• Biotechnology

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Health Sciences
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• To date
• Career ladder and curriculum defined
• Adopted by 19 high schools in central Nebraska
• Next steps
• Replicate test pilot to other areas of the state
• Review priorities based on state needs in
  industry area

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Industrial Manufacturing
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• To date
• Curriculum development definition of key
  knowledge and skill statements
• Curriculum piloted in five high schools
• Next steps
• Increase career awareness
• Replicate test pilot in other areas

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Commercial Construction
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• To date
• Inventory of related programs at NE colleges
• Draft of career ladder developed
• Next steps
• Identify goals and prioritize activities

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TWDL
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• To date
• Identify target pathway concentrations
• Seek business and industry input for development
  of postsecondary curriculum
• Next steps
• Inventory post-secondary programs available
• Increase student awareness of careers

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Entrepreneurship (NET Force)
Overview Partner Collaboration Pathway
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• To date
• Statewide curriculum developed and adopted by all
  six Nebraska community colleges systems
• Listserv developed and employed
• Next steps
• Review articulation to 4-yr degree programs
• Grow partnerships

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A final thought
Career pathway committees are an example of a
fundamental shift in thinking takng place in
government today. A shift from providing programs
and services through hierachal governmental
beaurcracies to utilizing the core competencies
of all related agencies through third party
entities to solve complex, multi-dimensional,
multi-faceted issues in society.