Building Bridges Between Jobs and People: Facilitating Collaboration to Address Workforce Gaps

Audience Level: 
All
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Institutional Level: 
Industry
Streamed: 
Streamed
Special Session: 
Community College/TAACCCT
Abstract: 

Discover how MERLOT-SkillsCommons, Ohio TechNet (OTN) and education-industry partners are modeling innovative strategies to fill in-demand, skilled jobs in advanced manufacturing. Explore strategies accelerating innovation to fill today’s demands for high-tech manufacturing jobs. Learn how OTN’s partnership with MERLOT-SkillsCommons and the Ohio Manufacturers’ Association (OMA) is creating a portal of Free training resources of relevant and vetted content for Ohio’s workforce training programs. 

Extended Abstract: 

Discover how MERLOT-SkillsCommons, Ohio TechNet (OTN) and education-industry partners are modeling innovative strategies to fill in-demand, skilled jobs in advanced manufacturing. Explore strategies accelerating innovation to fill today’s demands for high-tech manufacturing jobs. Learn how OTN’s partnership with MERLOT-SkillsCommons and the Ohio Manufacturers’ Association (OMA) is creating a portal of Free training resources of relevant and vetted content for Ohio’s workforce training programs. 

Ohio TechNet (OTN) is a consortium of career technical centers, Ohio Technical Centers, community colleges and universities that have partnered with The Ohio Manufacturers’ Association (OMA) and other state and national partners to make Ohio a leader in solving our manufacturing workforce shortage.

To build Ohio’s manufacturing talent pipeline, the Ohio Manufacturing Workforce Partnership (OMWP) is leading a statewide initiative to upskill 5,000 Ohioans with innovative earn-and-learn (apprenticeship) strategies. OMWP is a collaboration between Ohio TechNet (OTN), a consortium of Ohio’s community colleges and other post-secondary education institutions, and The Ohio Manufacturers’ Association (OMA), which facilitates the statewide network of manufacturer-led regional sector partnerships. OMWP’s earn-and-learn programs are currently supported by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), through its Scaling Apprenticeship Through Sector-Based Strategies initiative, which provided a $12 million grant.

Conference Track: 
Workforce, Career, and Industry Connections for Student Learning
Session Type: 
Education Session
Intended Audience: 
Administrators
Design Thinkers
Faculty
Instructional Support
Students
Training Professionals