Session led by Denise Reading, CEO of Future Plans, where she introduces and provides an overview of the Future Plans 5-Step Process:
Assess, Coach, Discover, Prepare, and Place.
This comprehensive and empowering approach includes:
- The Future Plans Assessment
- Impactful one-to-one coaching
- Applications through pilots, projects & partnerships
Topics Include:
- Workforce Credential Bootcamps
- Fair Chance Workforce and Employers
- Recovery and Recidivism Workforce
- Partnerships with Workforce Development Boards, OMJ, Industry Sector Partnerships, Treatment Providers, and Ohio Children’s Alliance (Opportunity Youth) Fostering Futures
Special Feature:
Shaelynn Ballard will share how GRIT has been successfully utilized at A-Tech and in Aspire.
Presenter Contact Information:
https://futureplans.org/
https://www.gritohio.org/
Terri Bennett, EVP of Knowledge & Capacity Building terrib@futureplans.org 513.360.8374
Shaelynn Ballard, Special Grants Supervisor shaelynn.ballard@atech.edu 440-576-5588
The Occupational Mobility Explorer: A Tool To Inform Skills-Based Career Paths
Across Ohio, practitioners, advocates, and public sector leaders work to figure out how to best support occupational mobility, especially when career advancements and promotions can place workers at the edge of a cliff, a benefit cliff. Workers can be forced to choose between growth opportunities and publicly funded supports like childcare. The Ohio Workforce Coalition, Economic Mobility Alliance Ohio, and others are partnering to share about benefit cliffs.
Recently updated, the Occupational Mobility Explorer (OME) is an interactive data tool created by the Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia and Cleveland. The OME allows users to explore potential career paths by visualizing how skills needed for lower-paying jobs can transfer to similar jobs with higher pay in the same local labor market. The tool includes nearly 600 job titles across 500 geographies, new functionalities, and skills-based resources for job seekers and employers.
Kyle Fee, Community Development Policy Advisor, and Samantha Tyler, Education Outreach Coordinator, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland will demonstrate the tool, highlighting use cases for job seekers, employers, workforce professionals, and students, and offered insights on adopting a skills-based approach to occupational mobility.
Teachers will learn how they can balance the time necessary to contextualize academic content with their other responsibilities.
Topics discussed in the webinar include making personal connections, communicating well with potential employers, and using job search technology effectively.