1. Virginia’s Community Colleges: Workforce Development
Virginia’s Community Colleges:
Workforce Development
Randall Stamper Assistant Vice Chancellor, Grants and Federal Workforce Programs James André Director, Grants and Federal Workforce Programs
Randy do quick overview and introduce folks.

2. Topics Workforce System in Virginia
Virginia’s Community Colleges Overview
Specific Programs and Resources
What is the Market Looking for Now
Contacts
Connecting and Next Steps

3. Workforce System in Virginia
Funding and Outcomes
VCCS – State Code Responsibilities
WIOA – Title I: Adult, Youth, Dislocated Workers
VEC, DARS, VDOE – The Rest of WIOA
Integration, Disconnects, and Room for Improvement
Working Together

4. Virginia’s Community Colleges Overview
Postsecondary Workforce Responsibility
Degrees, Certificates, Diplomas, etc.
Industry Credentials/Workforce Credential Grant/FastForward
Career Coaching
Rural Virginia Horseshoe Initiative/Great Expectations G3
Bringing it All Together

5. Specific Programs and Resources
FastForward
Career Coaching
Special Projects
RSVP/TANF/SNAP-ET Grant
Youth Initiative
Future Initiatives
ALICE Population
JOBS Act
Direct Enrollment
Advising/Coaching Study and Expansion

6. Program Spotlights FastForward G3 – Governor’s Workforce Initiative
Special Projects: IET Programs
Career Coaching

7. New Economy Workforce Credential Grant
  § :15. New Economy Workforce Credential Grant Program; purpose. The New Economy Workforce Credential Grant Program is established for the purpose of (i) creating and sustaining a demand-driven supply of credentialed workers for high-demand occupations in the Commonwealth by addressing and closing the gap between the skills needed by workers in the Commonwealth and the skills of the available workforce in the Commonwealth; (ii) expanding the affordability of workforce training and credentialing; and (iii) increasing the interest of current and future Virginia workers in technician, technologist, and trade-level positions to fill the available and emerging jobs in the Commonwealth that require less than a bachelor's degree but more than a high school diploma.

8. How it Works
Requirements
Cap of $3,000 per credential
Permits student to use financial aid to cover their portion (the first third)
Requires domicile
Student must satisfactorily pass the course within a window of time or will be responsible to repay 2nd ‘third’ to the college (promissory note)
A validated credential (passing the exam) must be achieved within a prescribed time period
1 - The eligible student pays 1/3 of the cost of the noncredit workforce training program
2 – When student completes workforce training program, college receives additional 1/3
3 – When student receives industry-recognized credential, college receives final 1/3
Craig – Measures of Effectiveness

9. Who are the Students? 20% receive SNAP/TANF Benefits 66% Male
36 years old
Average pre-training income: $22,000
Most enrollments – CDL, CNA, Trades, Manufacturing
Class completion rates remain very high
Credentialing rates around 65%
Craig – Measures of Effectiveness

10. Performance Outcomes To Date
Over 12,000 Credentials from FastForward Programs
95% Training Completions
98% in the Top 12 Virginia Occupations
65% Credential Attainments
Student Survey – 90% employer healthcare; 75% paid sick leave; 85% paid vacation
25-50% Wage Increases
SEE HANDOUT

11. G3 Get Trained, Get a Job, Give Back Planning Stages now
“Flipped Curriculum”
Credentialing in Stages
“The Big Ask”
Across curricula, across industries, across colleges

12. Special Projects: IET Programs
RSVP/TANF Grant
Currently at Reynolds/John Tyler, Thomas Nelson, Mountain Empire, and Piedmont Community Colleges
Another round begins July 1
SNAP ET
Virginia Highlands, Patrick Henry, Danville, Piedmont, Southside Virginia, Thomas Nelson, and Tidewater Community Colleges
Young Adult Initiative: WIOA
Patrick Henry, Southside Virginia, Reynolds/John Tyler, and Thomas Nelson Community Colleges

13. IET Model Training leading to an in-demand credential
Contextualized basics skills instruction
Career coaching
Soft skills and work readiness
Digital literacy and Career Readiness Certificates
Work-based learning
Capstone projects
Employment support
Accelerated, integrated, and employer driven

16. Career Coaching Programs
FastForward Coaches
College Success Coach Initiative
Great Expectations
Rural Virginia Horseshoe Initiative
Virginia Financial Success Network
High School Career Coaches

17. Core Components of Career Coaching
Career Assessment (knowledge of self)
Exploration of careers (knowledge of careers, includes LMI)
Academic and career planning
Soft skills and work readiness
Employability and job seeking skills
Case management

18. Aligning Coaching Services
High School & Transition Programs
Community College
Employment & Postsecondary Continuation

19. Virginia Career Coach Certification Program
40 hours – face-to-face and online modules
12 competencies of career development professionals – NCDA
Capstone projects and quizzes
Professionalization of VCCS coaches
Articulation to Facilitating Career Development training and Global Career Development Facilitator certification
Expansion to workforce partner agencies

20. What is the Market Now? Recent Data Business Needs from Statewide Tour
Connections to College Workforce Divisions
Approved FastForward Program Data

21. What is the Market Now?
– 175,000 “middle skills” jobs sat open for a month or more.
That equals 36 million hours of lost productivity, $1 billion in lost wages, and $54 million in lost state income taxes.
1.5 million jobs that require more than a diploma but less than a 4-year degree would need to be filled in Virginia in just the next few years.
Contributing factors include: decreasing unemployment; years of bachelors or bust; return of manufacturing; expansion of construction and infrastructure projects since recession; local healthcare demands.

22. What is the Market Now?
1-2-7 workforce ratio – We struggle with the sevens.
Technical and soft skills
Building a credentials coalition – Governor, House, Senate, Chamber, Business Council, etc.
Regional Demands Vary – Chief Workforce Officers/LMI
See the FastForward Approved List – it reflects demand

23. Contacts Coaches Chief Workforce Officers Program Directors
One Stop/WDB Directors and Managers

24. Connecting and Next Steps

25. Questions?