GREENSBORO-HIGH POINT
PRIORITY AREA:
Building a Workforce to Meet Current and Future Needs EASTERN TRIAD WORKFORCE INITIATIVE (ETWI) Ask: Add an additional $4.5M in non-recurring funding to continue investments in ETWI initiatives in all four counties (Alamance, Guilford, Randolph, Rockingham) for FYs 21/23. Impact: Continue to expand youth and adult worker pipeline. • Increase Youth Pre-Apprenticeships and Apprenticeships by 759% and 842% (cumulative and respective). » Serve additional sectors: IT, Cybersecurity, Aviation, Healthcare, Logistics, and Construction. » Expand Junior Achievement’s successful, 10-school pilot career exposure program to 20 (half) Eastern Triad Middle Schools. • Create robust Adult/Incumbent Worker Training Services (IWT), leveraging on-the-job training and IWT for a 250% increase. • Launch Adult Pre-Apprenticeships and Apprenticeships. • Pivoting to Virtual and Distance Learning Opportunities and Technology
READY FOR SCHOOL, READY FOR LIFE EARLY CHILDHOOD PILOT INITIATIVE Ask 1: $575K in FY 22/23 to fund a 3-year implementation of Model Work Standards for Early Childhood Programs developed by UNCG’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, in 8 early care and education centers.
Ask 2: $1.025M in FY 22/23 to support building, testing, and improving integrated data system technology that is necessary to provide empirical data for decision-making, and to secure the $70M phase 2 funding from The Duke Endowment/Blue Meridian.
Impact: Empirical data is critical to secure $70M in Phase 2 funding from The Duke Endowment/Blue Meridian. • 55% of Guilford County children aren’t reaching 2 key indicators of self-sufficiency and success in adulthood: arriving at kindergarten ready to succeed and then reading at grade level by grade 3. • In 2018 The Duke Endowment and Blue Meridian chose Guilford County as a national disruption pilot site, one of two communities in the country targeted for $100M each in possible investment to improve the early childhood support industry.