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Building a Career Pathways System: Policy Tools for Adult Educators
Webinar for COABE MembersJanuary 8, 2016
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Welcome!
Sharon BonneyExecutive DirectorCommission on Adult Basic Education
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Today’s Presenters
Judy MortrudeSenior Policy AnalystCenter for Law and Social Policy
Amanda Bergson-ShilcockSenior Policy AnalystNational Skills [email protected]
Today’s Agenda1. Programs to Pathways to Systems2. Policies to support career pathway systems3. Career pathways under WIOA & Ability to
Benefit: key decision points and opportunities4. You are WIOA: Claiming your place at the table5. Questions
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Why Career Pathways?• Our program participants don’t live their lives in
program silos; our programs need to respond to reality of adult lives
• Career Pathways seek intentional alignment across education, workforce development, human services
Federal Interagency Career Pathway Work Group
www.workforce3one.org/view/2001523732879857569/info
New York City: One City Working Together
nyc.gov/careerpathways
Intentional Alignment Across Systems
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Sound Ambitious?
• It is. This vision of career pathways is aspirational
• Next, we’ll examine key policy levers that can help move toward a career pathways system
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Policy Example: Common Assessment
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• Common assessment helps avoid duplicative testing of participants
• One version: having Title II providers do the entire assessment
• Alternatively, Title II may do the academic assessment while Title I assesses barriers and “fit” for specific occupation or training
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Policy Example:Pathway Navigators
• Legislation that funds these positions can help participants navigate complex transitions
• One example: Iowa’s Pathways for Academic Career and Employment (PACE) (2011 legislation)
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Policy Example:Co-Enrollment
• Co-enrollment policies (across WIOA or otherwise) can facilitate smooth transitions along a pathway
• Local WIOA plans are required to describe how co-enrollment across titles will occur
• E.g., disconnected youth be eligible for service under both WIOA Title I Youth & Title II Adult EducationPhoto credit: Flickr user Justin Valas.
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Policy Example: Integrated Education & Training
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Building a Career Pathways System Under WIOA
• What policies need to be in place?
• How should policy development be prioritized?
• Who has jurisdiction and decisionmaking power in setting policy?
• Are there implications for non-WIOA stakeholders?
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Key Deadlines & Intervention Points
• State WIOA plans due to the federal government March 3, 2016
• Local plan deadlines vary by state; law requires public-comment period for all
• Plans are broad brushstrokes; on-the-ground implementation provides further opportunity for advocacy
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Claiming Your Place at the Table
• Local WIOA plans may allow for closer involvement by adult educators; law requires 30-day public comment period
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Formal Advocacy Tools
Examples: • Submitting public comments
or testimony• Policymaker education (visits,
etc.)• Publishing op-eds
• Pros: Opportunity for coalition building; educating the public; can follow established process
• Cons: Time-consuming; effectiveness influenced by outside factors
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Informal Advocacy Tools
Examples:• Individual or institutional
relationships• Examples from peer or
competitor states/regions• Strategic communications
Pros: Can be faster; shortcut to implementers who share practitioner lensCons: May be less durable; vulnerable to political or personnel turnover
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The Bottom Line
• The best avenue to get involved depends on your local circumstances
• Everyone is dealing with a moving target, trying to get policies in place while determining what good policy looks like
• Remember: You don’t have to do it all at once!
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Questions?
Please type your questions into the chat box.
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About Center for Law & Social Policy (CLASP)MISSION CLASP seeks to improve the lives of low-income people.
WORK We develop and advocate for federal, state and local policies to strengthen families and create pathways to education and work.
ROLE Through careful research and analysis and effective advocacy, CLASP develops and promotes new ideas, mobilizes others, and directly assists governments and advocates to put in place successful strategies that deliver results that matter to people across America. We are nonpartisan and situated at the intersection of local practice, national research, and state and federal policy, and striving to translate each world to each other.
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About National Skills Coalition
Our Vision: We seek an America that grows its economy by investing in its people, so that every worker and every industry has the skills to compete and prosper.
Our Mission:• We organize broad-based coalitions seeking to raise the skills of
America’s workers across a range of industries.
• We advocate for public policies that invest in what works, as informed by our members’ real-world expertise.
• And we communicate these goals to an American public seeking a vision for a strong U.S. economy that allows everyone to be part of its success.
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Following the Webinar
• Certificate of attendance will be emailed to all attendees tomorrow
• Check our website for more free webinars
• Powerpoint presentation and collateral uploaded to COABE’s Adult Educator’s Resource