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workforce development
 
Lifelong Learning & Literacy Project
Tim Moore
Workforce Development Program Manager
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Slide presentations from the Regional
Workforce Development Board Meeting - SEP 30
- BRAC Overview
- STEM Presentation
- Defense And Homeland Security cluster report
- Economically disadvantaged populations report
- Pipeline nc presentation
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In the next three to five years, the Fort Bragg region will have available thousands of employment opportunities from construction trades to civilian employment with the government to hospitality.
As a result of the projected employment growth, the BRAC Regional Task Force is developing an innovative and comprehensive Workforce Demonstration Program for the 11-county Fort Bragg region.
The BRAC RTF has developed a broad transformational vision that engages the workforce development, economic development, education, and business communities along with other key stakeholders to accomplish the following:
Implement long-term regional planning to improve the region’s quality of life and ensure planned growth;
Establish a community partnership with Fort Bragg and Pope AFB for long-term sustainability and support;
Transform the region’s workforce to meet the needs of emerging, existing and expanding industries, such as homeland security, military preparedness, modeling & simulation, allied health care, construction, education, social services, and information technologies; and
Transform the regional economy using growth at Fort Bragg and Pope AFB as the catalyst to attract defense related companies.
The Workforce Demonstration Grant Implementation Plan has two components:
Implement a comprehensive outreach, education, and analysis effort, which will establish the foundation for the All American Center for Workforce Innovation (AACWI); and
Establish the AACWI as a transformational mechanism to create specific career tracks within each of the 10 industry-based program areas outlined in the initial grant.
The AACWI will promote employment, education, growth, and economic development in all 11 counties that are part of the regional economy. It will also allow the region and the state to leverage the growing and inter-related military and homeland security industry clusters by engaging private and public sector and academic organizations in such activities as research and development.
The AACWI integrated regional efforts will be unified and aligned to quickly determine the specific qualifications and educational attainment requirements of new positions at Fort Bragg, which will create multiple additional service and support jobs in the region. Specific goals include:
1. Developing skilled talent for the region’s targeted high-growth, high-skill, and high-wage industries, which include homeland security and national military preparedness;
2. Strengthening collaboration between the region’s education institutions to better prepare the entire workforce through increased life long learning opportunities; and
3. Enhancing the region’s entrepreneurial climate to create and expand businesses, and generate new high-growth, high-skill, and high-wage employment opportunities.
All American Center for Workforce Innovation (AACWI)
Ribbon cutting of the i3D Center and All American Center
for Workforce Innovation at Fayetteville Technical
Community College, June 3, 2008
The cornerstone of the region’s workforce program, AACWI, developed out of a need to train the region’s workforce to qualify for over 19,000 jobs that will be generated on and off the installation as a result of the move of U.S. Forces Command and U. S. Army Reserve Command from Fort McPherson to Fort Bragg.
Funded by the BRAC RTF as a virtual and physical presence in our region, the AACWI officially opened in June 2008 at Fayetteville Technical Community College in conjunction with FTCC’s i3D Global Center of Excellence for simulation-based learning.
The AACWI transforms the supply-driven workforce process by creating demand-based training programs and career tracks that will develop the talent supply to meet the requirements of emerging, existing and expanding industries. In the future, the AACWI will virtually and physically connect the region’s workforce, economic, and educational assets with other regional assets and partners to create a synergy of effort and resources.
AACWI will help discern specific occupational, employment, education, and training requirements for the emerging industries, create career tracks, and share job and program information with the region’s employment and training community, school systems, community colleges, universities, businesses, and citizens to create the talent pool for the future.
The state-of-the-art interactive 3D capability with the hub at Fayetteville Technical Community College opened in June 2008 and will help train modeling and simulation professionals for both military and civilian applications. In September 2008, the BRAC RTF expanded the AACWI to the Fort Bragg region. By providing portable i3D theater systems to seven community colleges in the region, the BRAC RTF has now established a connection between the i3D hub at Fayetteville Technical Community College and the region. Eventually, the BRAC RTF through the AACWI will expand the i3D system to one local high school in each county along with the region’s colleges and universities. The regional sites have access to an up-to-date image repository for classroom educational and training purposes.
Virtual Career and Employment Site
A virtual career exploration and employment demonstration project was launched for Wounded Warriors working in Fort Bragg’s Warrior Transition Unit. This pilot initiative is funded through the DOL Workforce Demonstration Program grant, and will be expanded to other populations such as exiting military and spouses plus the general public in the near future.
Job Connection Initiative
A task force has been formed and is working on developing a one-stop portal for job seekers and employers initially in the construction/skilled trades industry cluster. With over 11,000 jobs to fill in the construction and trades area, the BRAC RTF and various state agencies are coming together with prime and sub-contractors to encourage and facilitate local hiring. The following agencies have been crucial in our efforts: ESC/JobLink, North Carolina Military Business Center, ACAP, Fort Bragg Army Community Service, N.C. Department of Labor Apprenticeship, and community college trades programs. This effort will expand to other sectors.
Top Regional Occupations
March 25, 2008 - Table Top Exercise After Action Report
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