1. Let's Stay Together: Effective Title I & Title II Partnerships
Charlie, we need your logo.

2. Snapshot of West Michigan
7 Counties, urban & rural
14 Adult Education Providers
10 West Michigan Works! Service Centers
Unemployment rate under 4%
Industries: Manufacturing, Healthcare, Construction, IT
Jane – can we have the image of Michigan with our region colored? I’ve seen it on several of our pieces but don’t have the image.
Some counties under 3% Unemployment.
West Michigan performing at a higher rate than the rest of the state in terms of unemployment rate, population gain
Employers desperate for talent.

3. Other Realities of West Michigan
The street where Al Green grew up – don’t remember what it was 
Pockets of double digit unemployment rate
10% of our population over the age of 25 doesn’t have a high school diploma or GED
60% of our community college students have to take remedial courses
Racial disparities
This is why this work is so important

4. Challenges to the Work Silos Trying to be all things to all people
14 providers
Recruitment

5. What’s Working: Integrated Education & Training Programs
Multiple models
Multiple funding sources
IET Coordinator at West Michigan Works!
I think you both have good examples of this – it might be a good place to share.

6. What’s Working: Colocation
Adult Ed providers in West Michigan Works! locations
West Michigan Works! offering workshops and other services onsite at Adult Ed providers
Chad and Charlie – your programs couldn’t be in more different locations – urban vs. rural, size, traffic etc. Great place to talk about those models

7. What’s Working: Adult Learning Partners of West Michigan
Title I & Title II Partners meet monthly
Share resources, best practices, information
Shared marketing material

8. What’s Working: Adult Education Navigators
Charlie, this was something you mentioned. Not sure if this should just go under IET or if it’s its own thing. And if it’s its own thing, I’m not sure what should go under this.

9. How to Partner: Lessons Learned
Understand Roles – use each other
Be vulnerable
Learn from failures
Redesign
Communicate
Bring more to the table
Understand each others’ goals & support one another
Don’t do cookie cutter designs
Not sure if this should be one slide or one slide per lesson.

10. Where we still face challenges
Not everyone share the same level of vulnerability
Competition for money
Were there others we mentioned?

11. Benefits Serves our communities to the best of all our abilities
Greater impact together than separately
New and better referrals
Building stability
Others?