Working together to build Alabama’s workforce
The Alabama Community College System is an integral member of Alabama’s workforce development team. We are proud of partnerships with leaders in the private and public sectors across the state who aim to move Alabama forward.
From the important work alongside our partners in AlabamaWorks to achieve Governor Kay Ivey’s Success Plus goal of adding half-a-million high-skilled employees, to Alabama’s workforce by 2025 to partnering with business and industry to provide the education and training they need locally to prepare their existing and future workforce, the ACCS is essential.
Learn more about our partner’s across Alabama, below.
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What is the ACCS Innovation Center?
The ACCS Innovation Center, a division of the Alabama Community College System, is dedicated to empowering individuals and enhancing the economic vitality of Alabama by providing innovative and accessible training programs that bridge the skills gap and prepare Alabamians for in-demand careers. By bringing together community colleges, businesses, and community partners, we create Skills for Success courses that are built by Alabamians for Alabamians. Our goal is to provide rapid, industry-recognized non-credit training in high-demand career fields to build a skilled workforce for the state.
The training is offered at no cost, thanks to legislative appropriations that allow for the development and deployment of training statewide. A unique feature of Skills for Success training is how quickly it can be completed. Part of the training is offered online, with self-paced interactive learning. Upon completing the online portion of the course, students then complete hands-on training with qualified instructors at any of the 24 community colleges around the state. The in-person labs simulate real work experience and test students for mastery of skills.
Participants who complete training also earn an ACCS Credential and a certificate of completion from the local Community College, which signals to businesses that the individual has mastered the skills taught in the program and is immediately ready for employment. Once the curriculum for each program is created by the Innovation Center and tested at each pilot college, it can be replicated by other colleges in other parts of the state rapidly.
This division of the Alabama State Department of Education is focused on helping students achieve success through leadership development, career awareness, and academic excellence. This division also provides service to Alabama’s teachers, education administrators, and counselors through professional development that works to further K-12 student achievement and project-based learning.
The Alabama Technology Network is a part of the Alabama Community College System and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership. ATN’s team of experts helps solve the needs of industry and business through innovative, sustainable, cost-effective solutions. We can conduct detailed needs assessments, outline potential solutions based on the results, and then provide technical assistance to help you solve those problems or identify those who can.
Alabama Community College System is proud to be an Alabama Works partner.
In the fall of 2015, the Alabama Workforce Council undertook a statewide effort to understand the structure, function, organization, and perceptions of the Alabama workforce system. The results showed that Alabama is endowed with a plentiful state, educational, business support and other service organizations that provide training, placement and informational resources that could better serve business, industry and the public if they were organized in an effective network and unified under a common vision, mission and brand.
This new and unified system resulted from hundreds of hours of input from the workforce and educational professionals, industry leadership, families and students. Thousands of Alabamians participated in-person and online in developing the charter for AlabamaWorks.
AlabamaWorks stands for opportunity, innovation, accountability and inclusion with the vision of a better future for Alabama in which communities, business, and industry are supported in a collaborative process to build prosperity through the opportunity of meaningful work and a growing economy. The mission of Alabama Works is to recruit, train, and empower a highly skilled workforce driven by business and industry needs and to be the competitive advantage for Alabama’s economic growth.
Created at the recommendation of Governor Bentley’s Career Readiness Task Force to foster collaboration between government, industry and education, the AWC is comprised of educators and business and industry executives from throughout the state tasked with ensuring that all Alabamians have the capacity to pursue their educational goals and realize long-term career opportunities.
JumpStartAL is focused on building a partnership of public and private entities throughout Alabama to create a next generation of skilled labor utilizing innovative solutions. JumpStartAL partners directly with TRANSFRVR, an education technology company focused on preparing people for jobs that will set them on a pathway to live better lives. We focus on specialized training curriculum that can be developed through a virtual reality platform. We understand that VR will not replace hands on programming but will allow decreased training time and reduce material costs for business and industry.
