Career Pathways to Lifelong Success

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Career Pathways to Lifelong Success

• NM GEAR UP 2008 Spring Workshop
• April 25, 2008
• Len Malry
• Director of Workforce Education
• New Mexico Higher Education Department

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Relationship Between Education and Economic
Development

• A compelling body of research links primary and
  secondary education to economic development and
  growth. This research recognizes people as a type
  of economic asset human capital and shows
  that increased investment in health, skills, and
  knowledge provides future returns to the economy
  through increases in labor productivity.
• William Schweke, Smart Money Education and
  Economic Development

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Regional Economic Development

• Economic development today is in the midst of a
  revolution. It used to be thought that for
  regions and nations to grow all that was required
  was to influence business location decisions.
  Communities that attracted businesses grew and
  those that did not declined. The state of the art
  was to try and lure companies with tax or other
  business incentives. Those days are over.
• Today we know that in order to grow and prosper,
  communities and regions need to do much more. As
  Carley Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard
  told the nations governors, Keep your tax
  incentives and highway interchanges we will go
  where the highly skilled people are.
• Richard Florida

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Education Makes a Difference U.S Workers
Earnings by Education Level 2005

• High School dropouts earned 19,919
• High School graduates earned 29,448
• College graduates earned 54,689
• Workers with advanced degrees beyond the BA
  earned 79,945
• Those with college degrees will earn (on average)
  2.1 million in their life-times, roughly 1
  million more than high school graduates!

Sources Current Population Survey Data, 2006.
Value of Higher Education, Education Atlas,
www.educationatlas.com/value-of-higher-education.h
tml.
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Mean Earnings of U.S. Workers 18 Years and Older
by Education Attained, 1975-2005
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New Mexico Strategy

• Workforce Development Policy Statement
• To address the workforce challenges thought to
  impede the states competitive advantage in the
  global economy. This strategy involves partnering
  the publicly funded workforce system, the
  business community, education and training
  providers, and economic development agencies.

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Higher Education

• Department Goal
• To increase educational attainment at all levels
• Division Mission Statement
• To build and sustain partnerships with New Mexico
  business in order to build a world-class
  education and training system that makes every
  region of our state competitive in the world
  economy.

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Workforce Education Division

• Intermediary Function
• Demand and Supply Driven
• Data Driven Decision Making
• Regional Approach

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Our Partners

• Economic Development
• Business and Industry
• Secondary Education
• Bridge Training Programs
• Post-Secondary (Public and Private)
• Workforce Investment System
• Governmental Agencies
• Regional Foundations
• CBOs/FBOs and Social Service Agencies

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Demand Side Career Clusters
Federal Clusters
New Mexicos Clusters

• Arts and Entertainment
• Business Services
• Communications and Information
• Energy, Environmental Technologies
• Engineering,
• Construction, Manufacturing, Agribusiness
• Health and Biosciences
• Hospitality and Tourism

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Supply Side

• FOUR PILLARS OF LIFELONG LEARNING
• Early Childhood Learning and DevelopmentAll
  children should have access to high quality early
  childhood education that ensures they arrive at
  school ready to learn.
• Elementary to High School SystemsAll children
  in our elementary to high school systems deserve
  teaching and learning opportunities that are
  inclusive and that provide them with world-class
  skills in literacy, numeracy, and science.
• Postsecondary EducationNew Mexico must increase
  the number of students pursuing postsecondary
  education by increasing the quality and
  accessibility of postsecondary education.
• Adult Learning and Skills DevelopmentNew Mexico
  must develop an accessible, diversified, and
  integrated system of adult learning and skills
  development that delivers training when New
  Mexicans need it.
• Learn Canada 2020

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Data Driven Demand, Supply, Programs

• Quantitative
• Qualitative
• Dynamic

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REGIONAL APPROACH GEOGRAPHIC AREA OF
RESPONSIBILITY
SJC
NNMC
UNM T
LCC
SAR
MCC
UNM LA
CNM
SFCC
UNM G
CCC
NMSU - G
ENMU Roswell
UNM V
SAR
WNMU
NMJC
NMSU - C
SAR
Shared area of responsibility
ENMU Ruidoso
NMSU - A
NMSU - D
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Career Pathways A Definition

• Career pathways is a term for a particular
  framework or process by which regions can better
  align publicly supported systems and programs to
  build a knowledge workforce. A career pathways
  system is a series of connected educational and
  training programs and support services that
  prepares and enables individuals, often while
  they are working, to secure a job and advance
  over time to successively higher levels of
  education and employment in a specific industry
  or occupational sector. No single organization
  can implement career pathwaysthe model is based
  upon partnerships.
• Workforce Strategy Center

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Career Pathways The Model

• Key Principles
• Need for continuing skills development
• Sectoral and regional framework
• Central role for community and branch colleges
• Builds on existing capacity
• Distinguishing Elements
• Data driven
• Employers shape the design
• Serves full spectrum of workers
• Based on partnerships
• Integrates many funding streams
• Process, not program
• Workforce Strategy Center

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Five Steps To Career Pathways
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Step I Gap Analysis

• Assess labor demand (current and projected)
• Assess labor supply (current and projected)
• Analyze return on potential investments
• Choose a sector of focus
• Scan current service provision
• Identify service provision gaps

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Step II Career Pathways Planning

• PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
• Identify potential partners and gain partner
  participation
• Set mission, vision, and goals and formulate
  partner roles and responsibilities
• EMPLOYER STRATEGY
• Identify employers and determine the framework
  of an employer partnership
• Map career mobility patterns
• Gain employer partner commitment and develop
  ongoing relationships with employers
• PATHWAYS DESIGN
• Illustrate training, education and career
  mobility
• Incorporate and align the following
  programmatic components
• Recruitment
• Assessment
• Training
• Support services/case management
• Job development and placement
• Retention services
• Establish data collection protocols

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Step III Implementation

• Develop curriculum
• Recruit and assess participants
• Deliver training
• Provide support services, case management
• Develop work experience opportunities and jobs
• Continue employer development activities
• Utilize data management system

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Step IV Continuous Improvement

• Conduct regular in-progress reviews
• Review overall performance
• Evaluate the performance of each partner
• Make operational adjustments based on evaluations
• Optimize scale based upon need for services
• Reevaluate the mission, vision, and goals
• Document lessons learned

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Step V Expand Pathways

• Apply pathways model to additional populations
• Replicate the pathways process to other sectors
  of importance to the regional economy

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Partners

• Intermediary
• Secondary Education Institutions
• Bridge Training Programs
• Post-Secondary Education Institutions
• Industry Partners
• Workforce Investment System
• Economic Development
• Community-Based Organizations / Social Service
  Agencies
• State Agencies
• Regional Foundations

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Partner Roles and Responsibilities

• Intermediary
• The responsibility of the intermediary is to
  bring together local stakeholders to help build
  and pursue a strategic plan to create a
  competitive workforce and develop career pathways
  collaboratives. The intermediarys role may vary
  based on the needs of the partners, but this lead
  organization is often tasked with the overall
  development of the project framework including
  partnership agreements, developing operations and
  implementation plans, and coordinating the
  partners to develop pilot programs. The
  intermediary will also work with project
  partners, local and state governmental agencies,
  and private foundations to formulate a resource
  funding package to ensure that pilot programs
  continue and are sustainable. Finally, it is the
  role of the intermediary to ensure that goals are
  set, milestones are met, and the system is
  functioning on a day-to-day basis.

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Partner Roles and Responsibilities

• Secondary Education Institutions
• Secondary school partners play a major role in
  preparing students for their college education
  and career training. The schools maintain high
  standards established by their states including
  grade advancement and graduation requirements.
  They focus on strategies that will eliminate or
  at least reduce the need for remedial work in
  college. Secondary schools provide early career
  and academic information and counseling to
  motivate students and make them aware of their
  options and the value of their academic and
  career accomplishments. In addition, they
  negotiate articulation agreements with
  postsecondary officials to develop and offer
  credit-bearing transitional coursework that will
  smooth their advancement from high school into
  college studies.

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Partner Roles and Responsibilities

• Bridge Training Programs
• Bridge programs provide adults with the basic
  skills they need to enter and advance in
  post-secondary education and career training.
  Specifically, bridge training could include GED
  preparation, English-as-a Second Language,
  workplace literacy, and/or college remedial or
  developmental courses. These programs typically
  incorporate basic and vocational skills with an
  exposure to workplace literacy.

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Partner Roles and Responsibilities

• Post-Secondary Education Institutions
• Community and technical colleges and other
  post-secondary education partners provide the
  education and training that leads to career track
  employment. They develop curriculum in
  partnership with the identified employer
  community to ensure that individuals receive the
  skills and credentials that will prepare them
  both to enter and advance in a career track
  occupation, and continue with their studies in a
  degree-granting academic program.
• The college partners also provide the
  infrastructure for curriculum development,
  instructor recruitment and certification,
  negotiation of course fees and the delivery of
  the training. Often the colleges work
  hand-in-hand with One-Stops, social services
  organizations, and other recruitment partners on
  effective recruitment and assessment strategies.

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Partner Roles and Responsibilities

• Industry Partners
• Industry partners play a critical role in
  identifying the workforce challenges associated
  with building a competitive workforce and
  designing a career pathways system. They provide
  current information on industry trends and the
  workforce issues that are impacting their
  businesses. On a more micro level, they help
  define needed worker skills, review curriculum,
  visit training classes, and provide opportunities
  for work experiences, internships, employment and
  upgrade training for incumbent workers. Industry
  partners may also provide resources that help
  sustain career pathways.

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Partner Roles and Responsibilities

• Workforce Investment System
• The Workforce Investment System which includes
  state and local Workforce Investment Boards and
  One-Stop Career centers oversees talent and
  professional development resources that support
  the preparation of a regions unemployed and
  underemployed population. Along with education
  partners, the Workforce Investment System serves
  as information and relationship brokers. The
  One-Stop Career Centers connect a wide array of
  federal programs and community resources into a
  single access point for both business and
  job-seekers. Overall, the Workforce Investment
  System is responsible for integrating the career
  pathways framework into other public sector
  investments.

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Partner Roles and Responsibilities

• Economic Development
• Economic Development agencies may play a number
  of different roles in building career pathways
  systems. First, they are a source of economic
  information during the gap analysis phase and
  throughout the planning and implementation to
  ensure that collaboration partners are made aware
  of plant closings or new employers entering a
  particular region. These partners may also offer
  access to their network of employer contacts that
  can support the collaboration or hire student
  participants. In addition, Economic development
  partners may promote and market the career
  pathways framework and other competitive
  workforce strategies as they attract new
  businesses to the region and offer funding or
  in-kind contributions to support the system.

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Partner Roles and Responsibilities

• Community-Based Organizations and Social Service
  Agencies
• Community-based organizations and social services
  agencies often provide recruitment and support
  services to individuals isolated from
  post-secondary education and career
  opportunities. They can assess candidates, supply
  case management services to individuals and
  connect them to health, child care,
  transportation or other needed services.
  Additionally, these organizations may serve as a
  site for a community college or adult basic
  education programs to effectively bring the
  training to the students.

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Partner Roles and Responsibilities

• State Agencies
• Agency leaders and policymakers may support
  competitive workforce strategies and career
  pathways from a state-wide perspective. They may
  provide a statewide vision, engage and support
  regional and local players, work to align
  policies and programs among various state
  agencies and provide funding for the planning and
  implementation of the career pathways framework.
  They may also establish parameters for measuring
  the performance of a career pathways system and
  help align its goals and outcomes to other state
  policies and investments.

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Partner Roles and Responsibilities

• Regional Foundations
• Regional foundations throughout the country are
  becoming involved in career pathways initiatives.
  They often play a convening role, provide support
  for planning, and support capacity building. As a
  partnership matures, private foundations may be
  helpful in funding documentation, evaluation and
  dissemination.

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Healthcare Career Pathway
Patient Care Medical Administration Allied
Health
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (CSU) Registered
Nurse (LCC) Licensed Practical Nurse
(ACC) Medical Asst (LCC) EMT/Paramedic
(ACC,LCC) Home Health Aide (ACC)
Bachelor of Science in Health Information
Management (U of Toledo) Health Information
Technology/Health Information Administration
(LCC) Certified Coding Associate (ACC) Certified
Coding Specialist (ACC) Medical Transcriptionist
(ACC,LCC) Cancer Tumor Registry (ACC) Unit
Assistant (ACC) Medical Records Clerk
(ACC) Medical Biller (ACC,LCC)
Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Medicine
(CSU) Computed Tomography MRI Medical
Laboratory Technician Radiologic
Technologist Surgical Technician Respiratory
Tech Phlebotomy Electrocardiogram Technician
Tier 4 23.10 - 35.82 Bachelors Tier 3 16.07 -
20.81 Associates Tier 2 12.28 -
13.42 GED/Associates Tier 1 8.67 - 9.23 GED
Intensive Work Readiness
Key ACC (Auburn Career Center) LCC (Lakeland
Community College) CSU (Cleveland State
University)
Recruitment Sources Tier 1, 2, 3
positions Incumbent workers ABE participants One
Stop Clients
Academic, Career and Support Service,
Assessment, Scholarship Career/Job
Coach Portfolio Skill Building (Remediation)
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Suggested References

• Smart Money Education and Economic Development
  by William Schweke
• The Career Pathways How-To Guide by Davis Jenkins
  and Christopher Spence at The Workforce Strategy
  Center www.workforce strategy.org
• The 2007 State New Economy Index Benchmarking
  Economic Transformation In The States by the
  Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation www.kauffman.org
• Higher Education Department Workforce Education
  Division hed.state.nm.us
• Pathway Slides from presentation by Julian L
  Alssid of Workforce Strategy Center and Linn Gahr
  of Lakeland Community College

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Contact Information

• Len Malry
• Executive Director of Workforce Education
• New Mexico Higher Education Department
• 1068 Cerrillos Road
• Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505-1650
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Cell 795-4980
• len.malry_at_state.nm.us
• www.hed.state.nm.us