North Carolina Reports On: Innovative Workforce Initiatives

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North Carolina Reports On Innovative Workforce
Initiatives

• Pathways to a demand driven system.

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North Carolinas Current Reality

• With a reported 160,000 workers displaced from
  the textile, furniture and general manufacturing
  industries between 2000-2003.North Carolinas
  embraces workforce initiatives that are based
  on

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The Power of e³

• Education
• Economic Development
• Employment

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North Carolinas Dilemma

• Critical shortage of Registered Nurses and Direct
  care workers
• Existing Employers in urgent need of skill
  systems upgrade training
• Immediate Job Creation

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North Carolinas Vision

• Creating a system that builds and retains a
  qualified workforce

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Adopting the National Vision of the Power of e³
means developing program activities that..

• Demonstrate clear linkages to Education Economic
  Development and Employment

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A Strategy for Success.

• Define and Prioritize Workforce Goals
• Enhanced Workforce Partnerships
• Test and Rapidly Duplicate Training Activities
  that Yield Positive Employment Outcomes

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Current Demonstration Efforts

• Project H.E.A.L.T.H.
• Incumbent Worker Activities
• Tar Heel Works

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North Carolinas Response to

• Critical shortage of registered nurses and direct
  care workers

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Project H.E.A.L.T.H.

• In partnership with the NC Department of
  Commerce, NC Hospital Association and Department
  of Community Colleges project H.E.A.L.T.H. Is a
  1.6M demonstration effort that seeks to expand
  capacity through faculty development and
  increase access and retention of healthcare
  professionals within the healthcare industry.

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The Action Plan

• Through a modified HRD Training format. Project
  H.E.A.L.T.H.
• Test enhanced assessment, career exploration
  and employability skills training.
• Creating informed workforce choices in
  determining that Health Care Occupations as a
  desired training path.

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Project H.E.A.L.T.H.

• Seeks to expand capacity within healthcare
  education.
• Offers 21 Nurse Educator fellowships that will
  increases the states ability to provide
  healthcare educators to this high growth high
  demand occupational field.

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North Carolinas Response to

• Existing Employers in urgent need of skill
  systems upgrade training

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North Carolina Incumbent Worker Training

• In partnership with Economic Development Local
  Chambers of Commerce and Workforce Development
  Boards the Incumbent Worker Training program
  began as a 1M demonstration effort designed to
  support the skills upgrade and training needs of
  existing business.

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Indicators of Success

• In its short two year operation, the program
  provided occupational skills training and
  support to 106 employers within the North
  Carolina Corporate and Small Business Community.
• A total of 4M has been expended in this activity
  from 2002-2004.

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Notable Trends

• Sixty (60) of the companies assisted were from
  the manufacturing industries
• Businesses from the IT, Sales/ Tourism, Medical,
  Bio Technology, Construction and Publication and
  Media make up the forty (40) of businesses
  assisted through the Incumbent Worker Training
  Program.

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Enhanced Workforce and Economic Development
Toolkit

• The Incumbent Worker Training program has become
  the link between WDB, Economic Development and
  Communities seeking to retain viable employment
• In the coming program year, the program will
  focus its training efforts on enhanced
  certification and educational opportunities.

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North Carolinas Response to

• Immediate job creation

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Tar Heel Works

• Is best described is a concentrated effort to
  jumpstart job creation within five counties
  heavily impacted by mass layoffs and plant
  closures.
• Utilizing National Emergency Grant and Trade and
  State Activities funding streams Tar Heel Works
  will target workers who have not elected to
  participate in traditional employment and
  training models.

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The Action Plan

• Enhanced REI Training for the participants
• Enhanced Coordination of Counseling and Human
  Service Delivery Methodology
• High Wage OJT
• Test Wage Supplementation (40 DW)
• Target New and Existing Business

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The Partners

• North Carolina Department of Commerce
• Local Chamber of Commerce
• Community Leaders
• Employment Security Commission
• Department of Community Colleges

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For More Information Contact

• Commission on Workforce Development
• North Carolina Department of Commerce
• 302 N. Wilmington Street Raleigh, NC 27699-4327
• 919-715-3300