Designing Statewide Strategies & Programs
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<strong>Designing</strong> <strong>Statewide</strong> Career Development <strong>Strategies</strong> & <strong>Programs</strong><br />
Table 5. Collaboration Resources<br />
The Career Pathways Toolkit developed for the U.S. Department of Labor includes a section on<br />
building cross-agency partnerships and role clarification and on engaging employers.<br />
Through the Competency-Based Pathways State Partnership, Achieve provides targeted policy<br />
and implementation support to a group of states committed to advancing competency-based<br />
pathways (CBP) to college and career readiness for all students. Achieve’s resources include the<br />
State Policy Framework designed to assist states in building a policy structure that contributes to<br />
statewide adoption and implementation of competency-based pathways.<br />
The College and Career Navigation Initiative is an example of a collaborative effort between the<br />
Colorado Community College System, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, and<br />
the Colorado Department of Education’s Adult Education Initiatives Office. The initiative targets<br />
1) academically underprepared out-of-school youth and adults, 2) GED completers, 3) high-level<br />
ESL students, and 4) workforce center clients. The initiative’s focus is to 1) align workforce, adult<br />
basic education, and career and technical education resources; and 2) expand the number of<br />
clients successfully entering into college and the completion of career-advancing certificates and<br />
degrees.<br />
Interagency Collaboration And Transition is a webpage developed by the PACER Center with basic<br />
information on the why, when, who, and how of collaboration and transition.<br />
The Connecticut College and Career Readiness Toolkit was prepared by the Educational Policy<br />
Improvement Center on behalf of the Connecticut P-20 Council for communities to help their<br />
youth become college and career ready. The toolkit includes a section on strategies to build partnerships<br />
between secondary, postsecondary, and workforce development.<br />
Pulling Together 5 provides a section on building collaboration. Although it is not career development<br />
specific, it does provide generic information on interagency collaboration, including the<br />
definition, benefits and uses of collaboration, challenges, factors for success, and links to worksheets.<br />
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