Real learning for real life

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Real learning for real life
Providing quality, relevant outreach and
continuing educational programs and services to
the people of Texas
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• Overwhelming citizen/community response to
  address workforce development for youth and
  adults.
• Extensions Response ?

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counties responding with programming to train
youth and adult workforce
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Extension works

• Process for programming
• Locally identified assets / needs / opportunities
• Develop collaborations
• Training
• Educational program delivery
• Evaluation

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Funding opportunities

• WIA
• WFB
• Employee services
• Employer services
• Adults Youth Business Community
• TANF Choices Skills development Self
  sufficiency Food Stamps

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Primary Populations Served

• Welfare Recipients
• Needy Families
• Youth
• Dislocated Workers
• Special Populations

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28 Texas Workforce Boards Plus 254 Extension
partnerships
Creating potential for success
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Real learning for real life

• Building Self Sufficient Families Moving Ahead
  Through the Maze of Change
• Life skills Money management, nutrition,
  housing, family life, health, self-employment,
  appearance, work ethic

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Real learning for real life

• Entrepreneurship
• self-employment options
• Cahing in on Business Opportunities
• Texas Center for Rural Entrepreneurship
• E-commerce for Rural Texas
• Value-added agriculture

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Real learning for real life

• Entrepreneurship
• self-employment options
• Cahing in on Business Opportunities
• E-commerce for Rural Texas

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Deep East Texas WFB Entrepreneurship Project

• Six counties CEA AG FCS
• 36 Volunteers
• Designated WFC staff
• 2-Day training
• PPRI contract for evaluation
• Focus groups with volunteers and participants

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Deep East Texas Workforce Entrepreneurship Project

• 51 adults
• 11 types of micro-enterprises
• 5 businesses started
• 10 start up rate

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West Central Texas WFB - Concho Valley WFB -
Lower Rio Grande Valley WFB

• Certification for pre-service child care training
  
• Family day home child care business
• Involvement in other TCE programming
• Fathering skills
• Money management
• ESL / GED

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West Central Texas WFB Brazos Valley WFB -
Asset Mapping

• Workforce identified and organized leaders
• Extension provided training / or hired CEA

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West Central Texas WFB Brazos Valley WFB -
Asset Mapping

• Conducted skills inventory of citizens, including
  marginalized groups/citizens/youth/adults
• Matched skills/training with businesss needs

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West Central Texas WFB Brazos Valley WFB -
Asset Mapping

• Created collaborative efforts between
  communities/citizens/businesses

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Eastland County GED Study Classes

• 37 of residents 25gt no H.S. diploma
• Economic and family impact
• 12 weeks
• Volunteers from community
• organizations
• Promotion Welfare-to-work, VISTA, WIC, DHS, media

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Eastland County GED Study Classes

• Test in 5 areas
• Individual study plans
• Diagnostic testing
• Computers and
• resources

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Eastland Co. GED Study Classes

• 20 of 30 students took GED test
• 13 passed test
• 7 volunteer tutors/185 hrs
• 5 collaborators
• TWDB for part-time
• employee

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Workplace Ethics Pilot Runnels County
Trust Reliability Commitment Tolerance
Integrity Self-control Reliability
Building character in the workplacethrough
business and government multiple approaches
and topics
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T-TEEM

• Texas Teens Explore Entrepreneurial Minds
• Preparing youth to start businesses
• At-risk youth and communities
• RESULT Prepared FUTURE workforce
• http//tteems/tamu.edu

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Extension approaches in workforce training

• Building collaborative VISION to solving
  workforce challenges

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WHO ARE WE REACHING?

• 151, 900 groups and individuals
• In 2001-2002

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Barriers Or Opportunities

• Quick response - funding and implementation
• Learning curve - recognize and mobilize
  potential for synergy
• Connectivity for electronic information exchange
• Local perceptions of possibilities and realities

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Barriers Or Opportunities

• Employer frustration - multiple
• Unidentified employee assets for training,
  transportation, and child care
• Desire to develop jobs versus transportation,
  location
• Readiness to respond to funding opportunity

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Success

• Creating partnerships
• Accessing funding
• Reaching new clientele
• Applying technology
• Creating jobs
• Improving work ethic
• Developing rural community vision / action
• Training youth for tomorrows workforce