April 4, 2024 - The CWDC is offering new technical assistance (TA) modules to provide training and support to our talent development network partners. Interested individuals should register for their preferred modules using the links below. Please ensure to add the module meeting links to your calendars from the registration confirmation email(s) you receive.
The Available Technical Assistance Modules include:
- Working With New Americans - From Recruiting to Upskilling
- Understanding and Implementing Racial Equity Impact Assessments - A Guide for Training Providers
- Promising Practices - Work-based Learning: What Works and How to Make it Happen
- Customizing a Quality Jobs Training through Industry Partnership and Talent Cohorts: A Project-based Workforce Development TA Module
- K12 - Leveling Up Employer Engagement for Student Success
- Developing a Web Presence for Your Sector Partnership
Review the module details and use the links to register for each session below. Please note that the registration deadlines vary for each module. For questions, please contact cwdc@state.co.us.
Working with New Americans - From Recruiting to Upskilling
Registration Deadline: April 17, 2024
- Session 1: Introduction and Recruiting
- Session 2: Applications, Interviewing, and Onboarding
- Session 3: Managing and Upskilling
What: A three-session module geared toward employers focusing on immigrant and refugee (New American) workforce integration. Participants will learn and apply concepts that will aid in recruitment, onboarding, management, and upskilling approaches for employers from small to large. This module will incorporate lectures and interactive learning.
Who: This module will provide resources and learning opportunities for employers focused on immigrant and refugee (New American) workforce integration. Business and career service professionals from Colorado workforce areas may also join in this learning experience.
Timeframe: April - May 2024
Understanding and Implementing Racial Equity Impact Assessments - A Guide for Training Providers
Registration Deadline: June 4, 2024
- Session 1: Explore and Learn - An Introductory Session
- Session 2: Deep Dive - Unpacking Questions and Learning from Those Using REIAs
- Session 3: Project-based Scenario Group Discussions
- Session 4: Project Presentations
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
- Session 1: Laying the Groundwork for Quality and Success
- Session 2: Showcasing What's Working Across the State
- Session 3: WBL Panel and Q&A - How WBL is Changing the Landscape and People's Lives
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 Talent Found 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
- Session 1: Job Quality Foundations and Implementation - Promising Practices for Workforce Professionals
- Session 2: Job Quality Process Plans and Cohort Work Session
- Session 3: Job Quality Cohort and Industry Partner Impact Sessions
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
- Session 1: Finding employers, approaching them, and getting commitments
- Session 2: Elevating employer relationships to scale programs
- Session 3: Where are the good jobs in the state? Labor market data for emerging industries, preparing students for the future labor market.
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
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