CEWD 2016 Midwest Region Meeting

2 Promising Practices Ohio Energy Workforce Consortium

OEWC – Industry Partners 3  American Electric Power  Dayton Power & Light  Dominion Energy  Duke Energy  First Energy

OEWC – Strategic Objectives 4  Create awareness among targeted populations of the critical need for a skilled energy workforce and the opportunity for education that can lead to entry level employment.  Implement clearly defined education solutions that link industry recognized competencies and credentials to employment opportunities and advancement in the energy industry.  Balance the supply and demand for a qualified and diverse energy workforce.  Organize and manage the OEWC to maximize it’s positive impact on national, state and individual company initiatives.

OEWC – Establishing a Baseline 5 Area of focus: Assess current level of awareness of industry and related careers within secondary schools based in our respective service territories

Assessment Approach 6 1.Partner with post secondary schools to identify what high schools feed into their energy related degree programs. 2.Utilize an exploratory survey to establish baseline. 3.Identify audience for the survey. 4.Select administration approach/instrument. 5.Develop implementation plan for administration. 6.Communicate, administer, compile and assess.

OEWC - Implementation Plan 7 Date Audience (Whom do you want to receive this message?) Channel (How/through what will the message be sent?) Message Content (What needs to be communicated?) 6/8/2016Energy PartnersSurvey MonkeyProvide example of survey to be administered 6/22/2016Energy Partners Team members provide survey input and any recommended changes 8/2016All OEWC MembersSurvey MonkeyProvide preview of survey 9/1/2016All OEWC Members Begin sending names of points of contact for participation in survey 10/1/2016All OEWC Members Final collection of survey participants 10/17/2016Educational Institutions Survey MonkeyAdminister survey 10/31/2016Energy Partners Compile and share results of survey 11/2016All OEWC MembersMeetingShare results of survey and begin developing strategy to increase engagement and recognition of OWEC

Columbus State Community College 8  Provided student data filtered by:  Total by high school  Total by school district  Total by major by high school  Total by major by school district