Supporting Employer Demand through Strong Engagement with Industry and Workforce Intermediaries Sample Clauses

Supporting Employer Demand through Strong Engagement with Industry and Workforce Intermediaries. State partners are ready to expand their work with existing state-level industry organizations, such as CSF’s Councils on Healthcare and Advanced Manufacturing, and the State of Florida ApprenticeshipUSA-Project Narrative state’s Construction Task Force, as well as the State Apprenticeship Advisory Council, to engage them in guiding efforts to expand Registered Apprenticeships to best meet the talent needs of the targeted industries. Defining the value proposition for industry partners will be critical: thus information from sector partnership activities (at the state and local levels) will be used to identify and begin to address the challenges that need to be addressed to make Registered Apprenticeship a feasible option for industry partners. While some Local Workforce Development Boards (LWDB)s have strong sector partnerships in selected industries, the State has begun a hands-on education campaign to encourage and support all LWDBs’ use of sector strategies to drive their service delivery system. In July, CSF convened a two-day Sector Strategies Institute in collaboration with Xxxxx & Xxxxx, which included LWDBs, as well as educational, industry, and economic development partners. We are currently working on the continuation of the Institute, which will include Registered Apprenticeship partners, to begin the development of local strategies to expand Registered Apprenticeships in local targeted industries. No matter how far along a particular LWDB is with respect to its use of sector strategies, each and every one has strong ties with their local xxxxxxxx of commerce and economic development agencies, as LWDB staff participate in their meetings and sometimes serve on their boards or committees, and representatives of the economic development system sit on the local boards. The State and any participating LWDB will ensure that these entities are well- represented during subsequent Institutes, as well as State and local activities on this project. CSF will continue to assume the leadership role in the convening of Sector Partners at the State level and include the registration of new Registered Apprenticeship programs, and will State of Florida ApprenticeshipUSA-Project Narrative continue to provide resources for LWDBs to expand their work within their local Sector Partnerships to include Registered Apprenticeships.