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WORK-BASED LEARNING : industry : education
Pathways to Success: Work-Based Learning
Partnership Opportunities
The Coachella Valley Economic Partnership’s (CVEP) Work-Based Learning and Scholarship Programs assist regional faculty and students by facilitating business and education connections. Our mission is to advance an educated workforce for a thriving local economy.
Who Can Get Involved?
Local business, non-profit organizations and community members
Investing in Tomorrow’s Workforce
Now more than ever, business leaders need to be creative in addressing workforce issues and workforce development. Job shadows, mentoring and internships not only offer excellent experiences for students but offer a great way to prepare them for industry. Together we can align efforts to help students reach proficiency by designing skills and knowledge they need to be successful in the workplace. Businesses can provide resources that help schools educate students and faculty more effectively. Partnering with education is an investment in what Philadelphia Academies, Inc. refers to as the “triple bottom line”: students, the future workforce, and the community at large. Specifically, industry sites can utilize these partnerships as a way to extend resources and to expand access to new pools of talent. Partnerships with education bring new ideas and new energy to schools and to business partners alike, facilitating positive and open communication between the academic community and the business community for the benefit of our future workforce. When graduation rates are up and a growing number of well-prepared students enter the workforce after high school or college, the community benefits in several ways. The ratio of productive, tax-paying citizens increases, and an improved quality of life follows.
Why Should I Partner?
- Together we can align efforts to help students reach proficiency by designing skills and knowledge students need to be successful in the workplace
- Businesses can share innovations by providing resources that help schools educate students more effectively
- Together, we can develop policies that encourage employees to be engaged in classrooms as skill-based volunteers
- Businesses will assist in development of their future workforce
Goals of Work-Based Learning Program
- New perspectives on old problems; youth ‘voice’
- Flexible workforce that can assist on an as-needed basis
- Proven, cost-effective way to recruit and to evaluate potential employees, and to invest in the development of the region’s workforce
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