May 19 Planning Session
Agenda
Welcome
The Strategic Plan and its Objectives
What makes ... a success? How do we measure success?
Conversation Session 1: Priorities and Perspectives
What are your impressions? How are you feeling about 2023-2024?
What are your assumptions for 2023-2024? What would be your priorities for 2023-2024?
What would be in place if the priorities you identified had been addressed?
Planning Process
Data Summary (brief presentation)
Annual Plan 2022-2023 Workgroups Report
Conversation Session 2: Activities and Outcomes
What should we do? Which action steps should we take?
How would we know action steps have been completed successfully?
Onward - Next Steps
Workgroups
Resources (including 12 Essential Elements of a High-Quality Career and College Pathway and Adult Education Pipeline)
Consider this for a moment: If you had funding or opportunity, what new innovation would you bring to ERAE? Or what do you wish someone else would do?
Data Summary (qualitative & quantitative)
Quantitative Data
Consortium-level Metric Targets (predefined by CAEP)
updated for current reporting and planning session
Summit 2023 Presentation (external link)
Qualitative Data (gathered during the 2023 Stakeholder Summit April 21, 2023)
Presentation (external link)
Students shared the following suggestions:
Support English learners by integrating training and learning English
Improve adult student journey; include in pathways high-quality jobs as visible steps for underserved populations
Promote equity and high quality jobs
Revive student council, empower student networking, and build community
Consider implementing reminder app to disseminate information, resources, events, opportunities
Help students understand more complex options (share information across programs; "What path is this class going to take?")
website: make paths apparent and present programs in a more inviting way
mailers and catalog (link)
Improve marketing
consider mailers
help students and teachers increase awareness of other programs
more events where everyone attends (career fairs, community day, weekend events)
improve word-of-mouth messaging
rely on shared messaging to remind students and to make it less intimidating)
work through K-12 schools to parents
Community Partners shared the following suggestions:
Create a shared, living document (summary of partner capabilities), invite partners to edit and update on a regular basis (with a shared sense of responsibility)
Expand alignment across agencies and providers, so that paths are more continuous and broader (strengthen the ecosystem - partner with AJCC and County Employment Services)
Establish connections to employers
Establish connections to support professionals at other agencies
Identify opportunities for paid work experience, internships, and apprenticeships (partner with AJCC for all students and Access for students 14-24 years old)
Introduce options and connections for students with disabilities
Introduce student mentors
Introduce a re-entry specialist to ensure students understand their options
Add/bring back classes: Life skills, barber/cosmetology training, foundational classes
Support students with credentials and licensures
Offer more support for students (especially for transitions to college and employment)
Develop better trainings to real jobs (include virtual options)
College Partners, Faculty, Teachers, and Staff shared the following suggestions:
Provide multilingual staff and technology, childcare, and transportation support (partner with AJCC and County Employment Services)
Offer hybrid and other modalities (no waiting lists)
Recruit students (better) through catalog, social media, job fairs, and special events (also in partnership with other organizations in the ecosystem)
Strengthen community outreach and program quality through guest speakers, field trips, work-based learning opportunities
Foster equity and high quality of programs through opportunities for professional training and job shadowing
Business Partners shared the following suggestions:
Encourage community partners to present to classes
Makes sure there are true career paths (so that students don't get stuck in positions)
Provide more information to employers so that employees are aware of opportunities
Provide continuing feedback (from employer to training program and vice versa)
Businesses are trying to figure our how to pay for training; might be a joint effort - not all employers can pay for training
Advocate for students who might face legal barriers
"We can teach the skills but need to find the students."
Caterpillar: five locations offer employment between $20-$31/hr; diversity is important; recruiting women into the field; looking for technicians with 8-10 years of experience ; CAT program (4-5 years of experience); work with Miramar College and provide scholarship for their program (cover books, materials); employment at journeyman level (get a tool box valued at $20,000 after staying 4-5 years)
UC San Diego looking for partnership in Culinary Arts
Upholstery - lack of trained professionals
Goodwill - paid training
Need to set clear expectations ("Many people don't understand how to complete something." Also: "Employees are not always willing to take on harder training, even if the pay is higher.")
Explore apprenticeships and internships; craftsman and artisan
Look at other programs to model what works in training pipeline