State of Our Workforce

National Fund for Workforce Solutions
State of Our Workforce

Welcome to State of Our Workforce, where every month, National Fund director of learning and evaluation, Michelle Wilson, Ed.D., takes us on a journey into the heart of workforce innovation.   Join us for a deeper dive into the diverse, groundbreaking solutions our network employs to tackle local challenges nationwide. We're changing the very paradigm of workforce development, focusing on equity, empowerment, and the creation of good jobs for all.   From expert insights to real-world stories, we explore how to build an equitable workforce where race doesn't determine outcomes and every job is a pathway to success. Our guests, ranging from network leaders to academic thinkers, share their insights and strategies, driving us toward a future where everyone thrives.   Tune in to State of Our Workforce and be part of the movement shaping the future of work. https://nationalfund.org/state-of-our-workforce/

  1. Episode 35- LIVE From SHIFT! Career Journeys Redefined Part 3: Mentors feat. Guest Host Juvilee Hernandez (September 2024)

    15/10/2024

    Episode 35- LIVE From SHIFT! Career Journeys Redefined Part 3: Mentors feat. Guest Host Juvilee Hernandez (September 2024)

    This is the third of three conversations we hosted LIVE from the National Fund's premier, biennial convening, SHIFT Toward an Equitable Future. A large part of our work at the National Fund is identifying ways in which we use our national platform to drive regional change on issues such as occupational segregation. As part of that work, we identified career navigation as one such lever. We believe that it must be addressed at a systems level because the impact of occupational segregation goes beyond the worker. It impacts every facet of the workforce ecosystem from companies, education, human welfare, generational wealth opportunities, cities, towns and states because we know that inequities in our systems costs us in a myriad ways. So, we decided to take a deep dive into career navigation to identify opportunities to better support equitable opportunities for all. Today we'll be talking with some of our amazing collaborators who participated in this work. In this conversation, Michelle Wilson and special guest host Juvilee Hernandez talk to a couple of employers and an educator. They occupy a really unique space in the workforce ecosystem and were also named as mentors by our participants during our research. We were excited to be joined by: Clifton Phelps, co-owner of JCP Construction, a Black-owned construction company in Milwaukee; Anita Andrews-Hutchinson, the co-founder of a network of Black-led early learning centers in Chicago; and Dave Mullins, the Director of the Business and Industry Institute at Hutchinson Community College, who also works in a very unique space as a community college educator who dedicates time with justice-involved individuals.

    26 phút
  2. Episode 34 - LIVE From SHIFT! Career Journeys Redefined Part 2: Mid-Career Professionals (September 2024)

    08/10/2024

    Episode 34 - LIVE From SHIFT! Career Journeys Redefined Part 2: Mid-Career Professionals (September 2024)

    This is the second of three conversations we hosted LIVE from the National Fund's premier, biennial convening, SHIFT Toward an Equitable Future. A large part of our work at the National Fund is identifying ways in which we use our national platform to drive regional change on issues such as occupational segregation. As part of that work, we identified career navigation as one such lever. We believe that it must be addressed at a systems level because the impact of occupational segregation goes beyond the worker. It impacts every facet of the workforce ecosystem from companies, education, human welfare, generational wealth opportunities, cities, towns and states because we know that inequities in our systems costs us in a myriad ways. So, we decided to take a deep dive into career navigation to identify opportunities to better support equitable opportunities for all. Today we'll be talking with some of our amazing collaborators who participated in this work. This conversation focuses on mid-career professionals who were forced to make unexpected shifts. We met these folks last summer during our Career Navigation interviews. We were excited to be joined by: Brianna Rogers, Initiative Officer at ReWork the Bay; Andrew Shepherd, Senior Pipeline Technician at Northern Natural Gas; Tracy Carson, Project Manager at JCP Construction; and Shay Rainey, Project Manager at AYR Wellness.

    24 phút
  3. Episode 33 - LIVE From SHIFT! Career Journeys Redefined Part 1: Young Workers (September 2024)

    01/10/2024

    Episode 33 - LIVE From SHIFT! Career Journeys Redefined Part 1: Young Workers (September 2024)

    This is the first of three conversations we hosted LIVE from the National Fund's premier, biennial convening, SHIFT Toward an Equitable Future. A large part of our work at the National Fund is identifying ways in which we use our national platform to drive regional change on issues such as occupational segregation. As part of that work, we identified career navigation as one such lever. We believe that it must be addressed at a systems level because the impact of occupational segregation goes beyond the worker. It impacts every facet of the workforce ecosystem from companies, education, human welfare, generational wealth opportunities, cities, towns and states because we know that inequities in our systems costs us in a myriad ways. So, we decided to take a deep dive into career navigation to identify opportunities to better support equitable opportunities for all. Today we'll be talking with some of our amazing collaborators who participated in this work. This conversation focuses on young people who are just starting out in their careers. We met these folks last summer during our Career Navigation interviews. We were excited to be joined by: Juvilee Hernandez from Chicago where she is a youth organizer at Northwest Center; Reginald Bridges is also from Chicago, and he's an assistant kindergarten teacher with It Takes a Village early learning center; and Kayla White, an IT worker in Birmingham, who is also currently working as an intern with AlabamaWorks!.

    17 phút

Giới Thiệu

Welcome to State of Our Workforce, where every month, National Fund director of learning and evaluation, Michelle Wilson, Ed.D., takes us on a journey into the heart of workforce innovation.   Join us for a deeper dive into the diverse, groundbreaking solutions our network employs to tackle local challenges nationwide. We're changing the very paradigm of workforce development, focusing on equity, empowerment, and the creation of good jobs for all.   From expert insights to real-world stories, we explore how to build an equitable workforce where race doesn't determine outcomes and every job is a pathway to success. Our guests, ranging from network leaders to academic thinkers, share their insights and strategies, driving us toward a future where everyone thrives.   Tune in to State of Our Workforce and be part of the movement shaping the future of work. https://nationalfund.org/state-of-our-workforce/

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