WIRED Workforce Innovation and Regional Economic Development South central Southwest Wisconsin Regio

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WIREDWorkforce Innovation and Regional Economic
DevelopmentSouth central - Southwest Wisconsin
Region

• Presentation to
• Governors Council on Workforce Investment
• March 4, 2008

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Background

• SCSW Partnership began 3 year ago with first GROW
  Initiative
• CWI instrumental in creation of SCSW region
• Created 12-County GROW region

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Background

• Seeds of Workforce Change Report
• Identified 4 sub-regions with different workforce
  needs
• Dane County a driver while rural areas lagged
• Similarities in economic base with differences in
  workforce skill needs

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Background

• Key regional workforce issues
• Tight labor markets
• Job quality challenges Growing numbers of
  low-wage/low-benefit jobs
• Skill gaps Skilled trades, manufacturing, and
  health care
• Weak basic skills foundation
• Increasing diversity
• Increasing regional connections
• New opportunities in emerging industries

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Background

• Seeds Report recommendations
• Invest in industry partnerships
• Build pathways to career advancement
• Develop Health Care Excellence Center
• Develop a Leave No Worker Behind campaign
• Expand Jobs With a Future
• New ways of regional cooperation

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WIRED

• Partnership led to Generation 3 WIRED application
  in 2007
• WIRED Focus
• Systematic transformation
• Increase regional capacity high growth / high
  wage industries
• Increase regional investment
• Sustainable talent development
• 5 million over three years

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WIRED

• Convergence of regional initiatives
• Focus on employer partnerships and industry
  clusters
• Relationship to RISE and Career Pathways
• Recognizes Career Pathways as critical training
  platform

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Sector Development
System Development
Talent Development
Investment
Infrastructure
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Sector Development

• Develop modular, career pathway based
  industry-driven training
• Selected six driver industries
• Health Care
• Agriculture
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Biotechnology Life Science
• Skilled Trades
• Utilities

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Sector Development

• Link to activities of the Joyce Foundation RISE
  project
• Training becomes a sequence of modules leading to
  success
• Improve training access and success for
  low-skill, low-income adults
• Supports concept of life-long learning

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Sector Development

• Active collaboration to provide needed training
  resources and wrap-around support services
• Bridge programs help with basic education needs
  
• Help incumbent workers continue skill development
  

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System Development

• Develop robust and regional training
  infrastructure
• Strengthen current Job Center structure
• Build the capacity of technical colleges
• Implement technology-driven service solutions

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System Development

• Expand use of technology-based facilities and
  mobile trainers
• Health Care Health Care Excellence Centers and
  use of simulators
• Manufacturing - Robotics training center and
  acquisition of mobile industrial trainers

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System Development

• Expand distance learning capacity including
  networked Skill Centers
• Expand technology-driven services through a
  Virtual Job Center
• Expand on the technologies developed through CWI
  funding

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Talent Development

• Establish cross-industry strategies - emerging,
  under-prepared and incumbent workers
• Sector Academies Job learning-networking
• Skill Centers Applied basic skills and
  foundational industry skills
• Industry-based internships and apprenticeships
• Young Adult Career Pathway Academies

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Training Outcomes

• Training outcomes include
• 350 people in healthcare
• 100 people biotechnology and laboratory science
• 100 people in agriculture
• 330 people in advanced manufacturing
• 100 people in skilled trades utilities
• Basic skills development provided to an
  additional 850 people