Job Training Action Team

Ensuring job training for 100% of county residents. The 100% New Mexico job training action team identifies challenges, researches solutions and supports organizations in strengthening job training in its many forms to youth and adults. The long-term goal is creating a countywide system of job training with collaboration and coordination with all city government, county government and non-governmental organizations within the county’s borders.

The 100% New Mexico job training action team collects and analyzes data then identifies gaps in current job training programs, including vocational education and higher education. The 100% Community survey data, including informational interviews with residents of all communities within the county’s borders, reveal which populations and communities lack easy access to job training. The survey also reveals why job trainnig programs may be difficult to access. Difficulties may include a lack of awareness of programs, lack of transport to engage with training, lack of internet access to engage online with coursework and training,, lack of availability of training.

The 100% New Mexico job training action team focuses on identifying which job training programs need capacity-building in order to meet the need. The team identifies partnerships to improve services. This can be done through a process of continuous quality improvement (the data-driven “assess-plan-act-evaluate” process).

The 100% New Mexico job training action team focuses on identifying which private sector businesses can help strengthen job training, with a focus on training for jobs that align with current and future job markets. The team works to create partnerships between businesses and all forms of job training programs.

The 100% New Mexico job training action team focuses on identifying how to use technology, including websites and apps, to increase awareness of job training, access, and increase alignment of all job training across all cities and communities within the county’s borders. The team also works to address the digital divide to increase access for all county residents to mobile devices and the Internet through community access points.

The 100% New Mexico job training action team focuses on reaching all county residents in order to mobilize community teams to address the need for job training program supports. The team works to engage all county residents who have free time (retirees, college students, etc.) to support fully resourcing every job training program. The team also works to create opportunities for all county residents to share their ideas for problem solving.

The 100% New Mexico job training action team focuses on strengthening the capacity of all schools to increase their capacity to increase school achievement in coursework aligned with current and future job markets. The team focuses on how to fund the community school model to strengthen all school-based programs in order to create a countywide system of job readiness for all students.

The 100% New Mexico job training action team focuses on identifying which individuals and programs working with local higher education can support the process of aligning coursework with current and future job markets. This includes identifying support for surveying, data analysis, and researching solutions, along with engaging students and staff in fully supporting all job readiness efforts.

The 100% New Mexico job training action team focuses on identifying the capacity of city and county government to strengthen their current job training programs in order to meet the need. This includes a special focus on meeting the needs of the county’s most vulnerable students, youth and adults. Teams will recommend to local government the most up-to-date methods and software to accurately track job training program effectiveness.

The 100% New Mexico job training action team focuses on identifying which programs the federal and state government offer to support the strengthening and development of job training programs. This process includes networking, advocating and grant writing.

The 100% New Mexico job training action team focuses on the long-term goal of creating a county-city “Department of Jobs” to focus on supporting all job training programs. This includes surveying residents on their access to mentors, their need for job training and why they might be difficult to access. This proposed department could also support ongoing research in job training programs across the county.