1. Certified Career Pathways Week 2019

2. What is a Certified Career Pathway?
A roadmap and path that connects youth, adults & dislocated workers to high demand occupations through education, training & credentialing.
This presentation will Discuss Career Pathways, North Carolina Certified Pathways and how they impact the NCWork’s Career Center staff across the State. By the end of this training webinar you will be able to
define what a career pathway is,
know how the North Carolina Certified Career Pathways process has enhanced the standard career pathway approach, and also
know what your roll is, as Career Center Staff, in preparing clients in their search for work using the career pathways approach.
Another way to look at career pathways is by a visual.
Adult, dislocated workers and youth, in their efforts to find high demand jobs with livable wages, will often use the NC Career Centers to help them get employment. Sometimes they are sent for additional training in job specific skills to help them meet job qualifications.
There are also times when a client gets hired for a job right away, and while working, enrolls in additional schooling or training programs to achieve additional credentials to move up the career ladder.

3. NCWorks Certified Career Pathways Just the Facts
NCWorks Certified Career Pathways Are:
NCWorks Certified Career Pathways Are Not:
Employer Led
Designed Training to Employer Need
Sustainable
Regional and Collaborative
Stackable Credentials Eight Best- Practice Criteria
Designed for one employer, one county, or a single job
Only for high school and young adult workers
Developed by educators without employer input
A replacement for existing pathways

4. Eight Criteria Employers Lead Demand Driven Multiple Entry & Exits
Work Based Learning
Career Awareness
Collaborative
North Carolina’s Certified Career Pathways are an enhanced version of the standard Career Pathway.
To be clear, it is not replacing Career Pathways.
Certified Career Pathways simply imply that the integrated, seamless systems of education and workforce development programs, initiatives and resources align with the needs of the local employers by filling the talent pipeline in high-demand occupations.
In fact, the regional employers take the lead and let the educators and community partners know precisely what their current and projected employee hiring needs are. Placing employers at the center of this effort is considered to be a key component of the CCP approach and key to long-term success.
Soon will have seven criteria as we combine Multiple entry & exit points with articulated courses
Measure Success
Articulated Courses

5. Designed to serve entire workforce
YOUTH
REENTRY
IMMIGRANTS
VETERANS
DISLOCATED WORKERS
GO OVER CCP MISSION AND OUR AWARENESS AND WORKING WITH VARIOUS SPECIAL POPULATIONS…
Lead in to the special populations panel
VOC - REHAB CLIENTS
EXPERIENCED WORKERS

6. ONE-YEAR IMPACT REPORT
First Pathway Certified February 2016
Northeast Region (Healthcare)
Thirteen Pathways Reached One Year of Implementation by June 30, 2018
Healthcare
Hospitality & Tourism
Advanced Manufacturing
Transportation,
Information Technology
One Year Check-Ins Submitted
Synthesized for Report
Captured Additional Data from Stakeholders
Two Focus Groups
Twenty-three Individual Interviews
NE Region piloted the CCP initiative / well advanced
Many duplicate pathways but NOT ALL THE SAME
13 One year check ins reviewed
Personal story – Marc Barnes / 20 year old graduate of Collision U

7. One Year Impact Report Findings
Data indicates continued need
Improved collaboration
Streamlined course offerings and time to credential
Employers have more skilled labor
Career pathways are a no brainer
Improved collaboration
- Regions now working together instead of solo
- SW Region collaborative has working group meeting monthly on a variety of issues
- NE Region meets quarterly on pathways specifically
- Expanded networks / new partners / new best practices
Closer relationships have shortened time people spend in training
- Reduced potential school costs
- $37K avg student loan debt / 44 million Americans = $1.5 trillion
Employers are receiving the talent they need faster
- Starting new apprenticeship programs

8. One Year Impact Report Findings
Increased Work-Based Learning
Front line staff feel invested
Increased employer engagement has produced other, unintended benefits
Additional tools for under resourced areas
Regions reporting an increase in WBL due to the new networks established
- CC/LR WDB Nursing & Allied Health introduced more employers to schools = more WBL
- Employers anxious to expand opportunities to attract more talent
We have conducted training at NCWorks Career Centers including CC recruiters and other shared partners on CCP
- There are 3 CCP on line training modules / webinars
- Eastern Carolina WDB created an on line training program for staff to better integrate their services and assist clients
Unintended benefits
– NextGen Sector Partnership strategy
- Pilot program to expand nursing applicants led to incumbent worker program
- Collision U 5 semester / AA program led to 18 week Changing Lanes
Resources to share

9. Resources Outreach material - Career pathway ladders
- Blank career ladders
- Information brochures
- Video vignettes of success stories / career opportunities
Personal assessment tests

10. 35 NCcertifiedcareerpathways.com
NCCertified Career Pathway website has
- resources for downloading / no copyright
- all CCP are posted by region for review
- 35 certified to date across the state as of the new year

11. North Central Regional Updates
Triangle South Workforce Development Board
Mike Peluso (Business Services Coordinator)
Triangle Regional Collaborative Workforce Development Board
Barbara Boyce (Career Pathways Specialist)

12. Panel Discussion-Special Populations
Experienced Workers
Bonnie Helmink
Veteran Services
Paige Crafton
Vocational Rehabilitation
Taylor Kirks
Out of School Youth
Re-entry Program
Wendi Bowen

13. Southeast Regional Updates
Cape Fear Workforce Development Board
Ginger Brick (Board Director)
Scott Levine (Business Engagement Manager)
Eastern Carolina Workforce Development Board
Tammy Childers (Board Director)
Erin Ananian-Gentile (Career Pathways Specialist)

14. Panel Discussion-Special Populations
Experienced Workers
Bonnie Helmink
Veteran Services
Bob Pyer
Vocational Rehabilitation
Jeff Herring
Out of School Youth
Nicole Hall
Re-entry Program
Victor Hinnant

15. Sandhills Regional Updates
Lumber River Workforce Development Board
Patricia Hammonds (Board Director)
Kammala Brayboy (Business Engagement Manager)
Cumberland County Workforce Development Board
Nedra Clayborne-Rodriguez (Board Director)

16. Panel Discussion-Special Populations
Experienced Workers
Bonnie Helmink
Veteran Services
Dwight Butler
Vocational Rehabilitation
Chanda Armstrong
Out of School Youth
Lindsay Hankins
Re-entry Program
Mike Westray

17. Please pull out your cell phones!
Knowledge Test!
Please pull out your cell phones!
Open your Kahoot! AP or

18. Using 2. Download APP from Google Play or App Store for IOS
3. Just a few more steps.
a. Choose At work
b. Provide your age
c. Join Kahoot! by typing in PIN code and nickname to play.
You do not need an account to get started with Kahoot! IOS or Android mobile app.

20. Last activity possibly / index cards
- What are we doing that you like?
- What would you like to see new or more of?
Slides will be made available from the training website
Thank you to the panelists, WDBs who provided lunch,