Regional Workforce Development

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To Stimulate Social Innovation, Create a Network of Federal “Labs" Like Those for Science and Health – Starting with Workforce Development

The last several decades have seen the development of many promising innovations in the field of adult workforce development. An innovation scan of the field conducted by the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) on behalf of INC identified five major categories of innovations – financing; credentials and assessments; navigation tools and services; linkages; and innovations in the delivery of instruction. (Click here to connect to the scan document.) The innovation challenge for the field is the fact that these innovations remain quite fragmented and have not yet been assembled into place-based, customer-based and sector-based systems for managing skill development over an individual’s lifetime.

INC is working with CAEL and other partners (Jobs For the Future, ACT, Inc.) on several projects to help advance workforce innovations that support the development of comprehensive and seamless systems at the sector and regional levels. These projects include:


	Employer Sector Workforce Intermediary
	What would it take to develop a scalable "operating system" for sector-based talent development systems?
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	West Michigan WIRED
	The West Michigan WIRED initiative sought to seed innovation in regional workforce and economic development systems.
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	West Michigan Talent 2025 Initiative
	The mission of the newly created Talent 2025 initiative is to support the employer community as agents of change in building world class talent systems for the West Michigan region.
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	National Workforce Development Innovation Lab
	The US Department of Labor should create a national workforce development lab to spawn innovations in this field.
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Topic Tags: employment, human talent, job training, regional workforce, workforce development, workforce retraining, workforce training

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