What: A four-session module for training providers exploring a proven model for expanding access and outcomes of programming to marginalized/under-represented community groups. Participants will learn about playing key roles in successfully implementing and supporting communities with Racial Equity Impact Assessments.
Who: Employers, workforce professionals, and members of the Colorado TalentFOUND Network are invited to participate.
Timeframe: June - September 2024
Promising Practices - Work-based Learning: What Works and How to Make it Happen
Registration Deadline: July 23, 2024
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Session 1: Laying the Groundwork for Quality and Success - Register here
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Session 2: Showcasing What's Working Across the State - Register here
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Session 3: WBL Panel and Q&A - How WBL is Changing the Landscape and People's Lives - Register here
What: This three-session module will work from the quality standards of work-based learning (WBL) to share and explore promising practices of WBL across our workforce ecosystem. This module will showcase how strengthening talent access for employers is crucial to a diverse labor market. Participants will learn how workforce professionals are building and implementing quality WBL experiences and how it changes people's lives.
Who: Employers, workforce professionals, and members of the Colorado TalentFOUND Network are invited to participate.
Timeframe: July - September 2024
Customizing a Quality Jobs Training through Industry Partnership and Talent Cohorts: A Project-based Workforce Development Module
Registration Deadline: July 2, 2024
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Session 1: Job Quality Foundations and Implementation - Promising Practices for Workforce Professionals - Register here
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Session 2: Job Quality Process Plans and Cohort Work Session - Register here
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Session 3: Job Quality Cohort and Industry Partner Impact Sessions - Register here
What: This three-session, project-based workforce development TA module will experientially guide participants in the customization of job quality. Participants will design and implement the Job Quality Framework in practical means. There will be a project that participants will complete over the three-session module.
Who: Workforce professionals within the TalentFOUND Network (workforce center leadership, workforce board members, workforce center professionals working with and/or interested in job quality).
Timeframe: July - September 2024
K12 - Leveling Up Employer Engagement for Student Success
Registration Deadline: May 8, 2024
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Session 1: Finding employers, approaching them, and getting commitments. How to "speak business" when talking about your programs. - Register here
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Session 2: Elevating employer relationships to scale programs - Register here
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Session 3: Where are the good jobs in the state? Labor market data for emerging industries, preparing students for the future labor market. - Register here
What: K12 education engages with employers for program development, curriculum review, work-based learning partnerships, and more. In this series, you will learn strategies for "speaking business" to make your outreach and partnership building student-centered, effective, and scalable.
Who: Must be involved directly with K-12 education such as CTE teachers, counselors, building staff and/or administrators, work-based learning coordinators, and intermediaries (non-profits) who support your work. To accommodate staff that do not work during the summer, we are offering one session in May before the end of the school year.
Timeframe: May - June 2024
Developing a Web Presence for Your Sector Partnership
Registration Deadline: June 6, 2024 - Register here
What: This training will help participants learn how to create and maintain a Google Site for their sector partnerships. The CWDC will provide a step-by-step guide and present a template that participants can use as a foundation for their partnership’s new website.
Who: This training is for leaders/conveners from active sector partnerships who want guidance for creating an online presence for their partnerships. The training is only available to active partnerships who have been recognized by the CWDC via the Sector Partnership Acknowledgement Form.
Timeframe: June 13, 2024
