The Alabama Opportunity Initiative: Using Community Colleges to Build Pathways to Prosperity for All
The information provided on this page is meant to be a resource for those participating in stakeholder meeting related to Alabama’s Statewide Consolidated Workforce Development Strategic Plan.
May 30 Meeting Materials
- Meeting Power Point
- Alabama’s Statewide Consolidated Workforce Development Strategic Plan
- The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006: Guide for Submission of State Plans
- Governor’s Memo: A Social Compact for Alabama Founded on Competency-Based Human Capital Development
- The Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation (GOEWT) Structure Memo
- Pathways to Career: Alabama’s Education-to-Workforce System (PowerPoint)
- Perkins V State Plan Draft
- Draft WIOA 2020 and Perkins V Combined State Planning Priorities
- Legislative Summary and Analysis: Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V)
- Letter to ACCS
- Perkins V Summary: Highlights of the Reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins CTE Act
2020 WIOA Plan
- Governor’s Workforce Innovation Directive No. PY2016-02
- Leveraging Community Colleges in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
- Realizing Innovation and Opportunity in WIOA: Implementing the Playbook for Creating Effective State Plans
- Training and Employment Guidance Letter WIOA No. 3-18: Eligible Training Provider (ETP) Reporting Guidance under WIOA
- Training and Employment Notice No: 4-15: Expanding Registered Apprenticeships and Pre-Apprenticeships to Create a Pathway to Good Middle Class Jobs for Youth and Adults with Disabilities
- The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and the One-Stop Delivery System
- Training and Employment Notice No: 31-16: Framework on Registered Apprenticeship for High School Students
Apprenticeship
- A Quick Start Toolkit: Building Registered Apprenticeship Programs
- Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Program Accrediting Organizations
- The Alabama Child Labor Law
- Apprenticeship in the United States FAQ
- Apprenticeship American: An Idea to Reinvent Postsecondary Skills for the Digital Age
- Apprenticeship Acceleration Framework
- Apprenticeship Registration Process (PowerPoint)
- Broadening the Apprenticeship Pipeline
- Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration: Apprenticeship Programs, Labor Standards for Registration, Amendment of Regulations; Final Rule
- High School Apprenticeships Youth Guide
- Industry Competency Model Initiative
- Pathways Through Apprenticeship: Apprenticeship in the Federal Government through OPM’s Pathways Program
- Registered Apprenticeship: College Consortium Articulation Framework
- Registered Apprenticeship: Federal Role and Recent Federal Efforts
- Apprenticeships: The Next Stackable Credential?
- State Office of Apprenticeship Timeline
- Supporting Apprenticeship Through the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program
- Apprenticeship Expansion Taskforce: Final Report to POTUS
- Training and Employment Guidance Letter WIOA No. 13-16: Guidance on Registered Apprenticeship Provisions and Opportunities in WIOA
- Training and Employment Guidance Letter WIOA No. 15-16: Competitive Selection of One-Stop Operators
- Training and Employment Guidance Letter WIOA No. 19-15: ApprenticeshipUSA Funding Announcement: State Accelerator Grants
- Training and Employment Notice No. 3-18: Creating Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Programs to Expand Opportunity in America
- Training and Employment Notice No. 13-12: Defining a Quality Pre-Apprenticeship Program and Related Tools and Resources
- Training and Employment Notice No. 31-16: Framework on Registered Apprenticeship for High School Students
- Making ApprenticeshipUSA Work for the Public Workforce System: Using Workforce Funds to Support Apprenticeship
- What is a Registered Apprenticeship? (PowerPoint)
Career Pathways
- Developing a College-and Career-Ready Workforce: An Analysis of ESSA, Perkins V, IDEA, and WIOA
- CLASP Career Pathways in Career and Technical Education
- Developing Credit for Prior Learning Policies to Support Postsecondary Attainment for Every Learner
- Early Achievements and Innovations from Phase One of the New Skills for Youth Initiative
- Linking Public Workforce Systems and Community Colleges through Prior Learning Assessment
- National Occupation Frameworks: A Technical Guide to Structure and Content
- Non-Degree Credentials, Work-Based Learning, and the American Working Class
- Raising the Bar: State Strategies for Developing and Approving High Quality Career Pathways
- Building a Skilled Workforce for a Stronger Southern Economy
- The Career Pathways Planner: A Guide for Adult Education State Leaders to Promote Local Career Pathway Systems
Credentials
- A Guide to Key Initiatives for the Connected Learn and Work Ecosystem
- Certified Value: When Do Adults Without Degrees Benefit From Earning Certificates
- Common State Definition of a Qualified Credential
- Counting U.S. Secondary and Postsecondary Credentials
- Credential Currency: How States Can Identify and Promote Credentials of Value
- Credentials Matter Report 1: A National Landscape of High School Student Credential Attainment Compared to Workforce Demand
- Credentials of Value: State Strategies for Identifying and Endorsing Industry Recognized Credentials
- Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 15-10: Increasing Credential, Degree, and Certificate Attainment by Participants of the Public Workforce System
- Three Educational Pathways to Good Jobs: High School, Middle Skills, and Bachelor’s Degrees
Human Capital Development
- Meet the Out-of-Work: Local Profiles of Jobless Adults and Strategies to Connect Them to Employment
- Work, Skills, Community: Restoring Opportunity for the Working Class
Perkins v. CTE
- Auditing a State Career and Technical Education Program for Quality
- Building Cross-Sector Partnerships to Support Career and Technical Education Pathways
- Building Trust to Promote Equity in CTE
- Career and Technical Education: Current Policy, Prominent Programs, and Evidence
- Communications Through Perkins V
- Increasing Student Enrollment in CTE Programs: Parent Engagement Tool
- Making Good on the Promise: Examining Access and Achievement Gaps
- Making Good on the Promise: Understanding the Equity Challenge in CTE
- Maximizing Perkins V: Comprehensive Needs Assessment
- Planning for Engagement: Identifying Key Stakeholders for Perkins V
- Putting Career and Technical Education to Work for Students
- Putting Labor Market Information in the Right Hands
- State of CTE Employer Engagement
- STEM Dual Enrollment: Model Policy Components
- The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006: Guide for Submission of State Plans
Special Populations
- A Framework for Understanding Poverty: Hidden Rules Among Classes
- Make Pell Work: JOBS Act Will Assure Quality Credentials for America’s Workers
- Skills-Based SNAP Employment and Training Policy Toolkit
- Building Skills through SNAP Employment and Training: Recommendations from Lessons Learns in Four States
- Strengthening the TANF Program: Putting Children at the Center and Increasing Access to Good Jobs for Parents
- Supporting the Child Care and Workforce Development Needs of TANF Families
- Collaboration Opportunities: WIOA Youth and Vocational Rehabilitation Program
- Workforce Development and Low-Income Adults and Youth: The Future under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014
