1. Career Connect Washington Legislative Update
Employment Security Advisory Committee Meeting
May 13, 2019
Anna Nikolaeva
Workforce Initiatives

2. Career Connect Local Prototypes
Interrelated Problems:
Washington employers have 250,000+ job openings per year
73% require some postsecondary education
Skill gaps slow economic growth and job creation
Young adult unemployment is above 12%
Only 40% of WA students achieve a post-high school credential
5-year high school graduation rate is 81.9% - 18,000 young people per year do not graduate within 5 years of starting school
Governor Inslee’s challenge to 12 Local Teams (co-lead by Workforce Development Councils & STEM Networks):
Address the above gap by providing 15,000 youth with career connected learning experiences, of which at least 1,500 are intensive on-the-job learning experiences such as registered apprenticeships, internships, or co-operative learning experiences
Move towards making career connected learning part of every WA youth’s experience

3. Career Connect Local Prototypes – Performance Update
Nearly 50,000 career connected learning experiences and 1,700 comprehensive internships since start of Career Connect Washington pilots
Outcomes to-date have exceeded the Governor’s challenge:
Number of career connected learning experiences (>49,000)
Comprehensive internships (~1,700)
Engagement and communications events (~80 events)
Apprentices in new and expanded programs (~175 apprentices)
17 new organizations are employing apprentices
Each region is developing programs, forming partnerships, and tracking student data to create new career connected learning experiences for students.
New standards (16+):
Controls Technology
IT Junior Coder
Business Operations Project Coordinator
Computer Technician I
Hospitality
Public Safety
Irrigation Technology
Pre-School Teacher

4. Career Connect 2.0 Retains regional team approach
Supports intermediaries for program/curriculum design
Supports secondary and post-secondary education partners
Funds data enclave
Establishes cross-agency governance committee to :
Design Career Launch Endorsement process
Design and execute grants to regional networks and intermediaries
Implement marketing and communications agenda
Develop web resources for students, employers, and the public
Develop data systems for planning and evaluations purposes
Create a state-wide inventory to identify equity supports

5. TBD (Dependent on number of Career Launch students)
Launch funding secured: $24M operating and $9.5M capital funding for Career Connect Washington (and supported initiatives)
Category FY
Funding Details
($M)
Local Grants
5.4
Competitive grants for program intermediaries, regional networks and coordinators in education service districts to create and expand career-connected learning opportunities statewide
Increased enrollment
3.6
$3.0M for CTC Career Launch enrollment
$0.6M for K-12 Career Launch programs via CTE
Equity supports
1.6
$1.6M dual enrollment scholarship pilot – provides scholarships and textbook vouchers to low-income students enrolled in Running Start and College in the High School*
System start-up
2.9
$1.6M to K-12 to support CTE course equivalencies and expansion of career connected learning
$1.2M for data enclave infrastructure
$0.1M for CCW implementation
Supported Career Launch initiatives
10.6
$3.4M for CorePlus in K-12 programs
$2.0M for information technology apprenticeships
$1.6M for expanding health care apprenticeships
$1.5M for regional pre-apprenticeship pathways pilot program in Marysville School District
$0.9M for expansion of state apprenticeship staffing
$0.7M for controls apprenticeship pathways in South Kitsap School District
$0.5M biological manufacturing equipment for regional training facility in Bothell
Total Operating Funding
24.1
Total Capital Funding
9.5
$4.5M for K-12 equipment grants, of which $3.5M for skills centers
$5.0M for CTC equipment grants
Additional: Washington College Grant Program
TBD (Dependent on number of Career Launch students)
$177M for the Washington College Grant program, providing, scholarship aid to low-income students to pursue postsecondary degrees. Career Launch (including Reg. Apprenticeship) students are eligible.*
*Funding not exclusive to Career Launch