Workforce Innovation and Job Creation in Gainesville, FL ... · 1. $ 500,000 Youth training grant...
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Workforce Innovation and Job Creation in Gainesville, FLSmall town – Five Business Incubators
Angela Pate – Executive Director• President and CEO of Focused Management
Solutions, Inc.
Excellence by Design, Execution and Delivery
Focused Management Solutions is a management and staffing firm that provides expert services with proven results in business growth through a strong focus on human services and workforce development.
Business intelligence and efficiencies to complex government processes and highly regulated industries.
Certified, and experienced in providing quality, performance and operational expertise and strengthening service delivery systems.
Strong oversight to meet benchmarks and successfully achieve measurable goals.
Workforce Investment Business Services
Gainesville Chamber Contracted to Serve EmployersLocal Wage Information, Knowledge of Available TalentPost Jobs, Prescreen, Job Fairs, RecruitingEducate Regarding Bonding , tax incentives, etc.Capture Hire Data, Develop Career Ladders Within FirmsConvey Business Needs to Educators, Government & those servingspecific populations
US Chamber Region of Excellence
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2010-2011 $2.5 Million
1. $ 500,000 Youth training grant – enroll/train 350 kids
Provide 300 iPads to youth at risk of dropping - "Tech Quest"
2. $ 500,000 WINGS Grant$226,665 to train 204 people in green technologies
78 employed received skills upgrades - 126 unemployed received training 13 unemployed hired
3. $ 500,000 Healthcare training grant$242,000 to train 300 people – placements over 50%
4. $1 Million – YouthBuild Grant – train dropouts for GEDs
2011-12 $5 Million
1. Technology, Healthcare & BioScience
2. On the Job Training Salary for up to 6 months
1-10 employees up to 90%2-50 up to 75%> 50 up to 50%
3. Class room training
3. Focus on Employers that will create the most jobs
Local Strategic Plan for Workforce DevelopmentTalent Development: People Part of Economic Development
Business is considered the customer; Jobseeker is the resource that MUST be developed for the customer.
1. Entrepreneurship & Self Employment for all populations
2. ‘Earn & Learn’ in all industries3. Soft Skills Training4. Institute for Workforce Innovation5. Policy Change
Why Entrepreneurship & Self Employment ?
Old Jobs Not Returning
Self-Employment – reality
2008, Out of the 29.6 million US businesses *
73% or 21.7 millionhad no employees.
87% or 25.7 million have 5 employees or fewer
Entrepreneurial Cultures have higher than averageeconomic growth**
*Source: US SBA - http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats/sbfaq.pdf** Source - THINK ENTREPRENEURS: A Call to Action (The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education)
Integrating Entrepreneurship Into the Public Workforce System Throughout America
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Startup Quest
Unemployed Professionals
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Youth at Highest Risk of Dropout
Opportunity Quest
Welfare Recipients
• 13 teams formed during program• 83 professionals trained
•70 earned certificates
TO DATE:• Four teams pursuing licensing• One licensed and incorporated• 13 employed during program• 14 working in their own company
Startup Quest
90.48% have retested
73.68% increase in either reading or math or both
10.5% neither an increase nor decrease
7.89% decrease in both reading and math
7.89% decrease in either math or reading
Opportunity Quest
Trained Welfare Recipients in Skills forSelf-Employment
Training included basic concepts of
Financial Literacy
Self Branding, Self Esteem and Self Marketing
Customer Service – pleasing your customer
Support Services to assist
65 participated in training, only 24 completed
Of those 1/3 exited Welfare due to earnings to date
Education Short term Certificate training from 1 week to 3 months created by Santa Fe Community College from our Board’s request
Recently created a 15 hour Entrepreneurship Certification to be complete in one semester.
Certified Solar
Contractor
Entry Level Energy
Auditor
Advanced Energy
Auditor
Basic Recruit Law
Enforcement
Solar Hot Water
Technician
Biomedical Equipment
Engineering Technician
Web Specialist Air Conditioning,
Refrigeration and Heating
Service Technician
Solar PV Installation
Technician
Business Specialist Legal Office
Management
Licensed Practical Nurse
Network Specialist Business Operations -
Accounting
Medical Record
Transcriptionist
Crew Chief
Basic Healthcare
Worker
Surgical Technologist Radiologic
Technologist Assistant
Business Operations - Human
Resources
Medical Manager Office Specialist Medical Information
Coder/Biller
Applied Welding
Technologies - Pipe Welder
Accounting Software Health Informatics Patient Care Assistant Central Supply and
Distribution Technician
MS Office Applications Certified Nursing
Assistant
Workforce Development
Almost 600 Workforce Investment Boards nationally
Over 13,000 Business Leaders on those boards
Over 9 million served in the past year
Over 4.5 million people placed in jobs
Workforce Investment SolutionsEntrepreneurship training and mentoring
Those who will only be self-employed & self-sufficient
Those with potential for investment to create startups
Those newer second stage firms with around 10 employeesthat will create the most jobs the fastest
Apprenticeships in all industries for earn and learn toprovide higher education for those needing to work.
Short Time Compensation – Layoff Aversion(German Work Sharing)
Hiring and tax credits focused on startups (for hiringunemployed) where hiring would NOT have been possibleotherwise
UC – stop extensions and provide to employers to payunemployed to come work