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SSIREP fellows Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, Skye Leedahl, and Aaron Ley, and students Bridget Hall, Kristin Sodhi, and Marissa DeOliveira conducted an analysis of The Real Jobs Rhode Island program for the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training.<\/p>\n
Summary & Report<\/a> | Case Studies<\/a><\/p>\n State-sponsored, sector-based workforce strategies are a promising model for economic development. Rhode Island is one of many states to embrace an industry-led, sector-based strategy as a model for workforce and economic development. Rhode Island\u2019s decision to invest in sector strategy reflects its recognition that innovative and sustainable workforce development and employment training approaches are required to ensure that Rhode Island businesses and workers can compete in the technological, global age and that the state can deliver the talent needed to retain employers, attract new businesses, and foster business growth. Beginning in 2015, the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (DLT) piloted its first round of grants for sector-based workforce development partnerships. In July 2015, the DLT issued the first round of 21 RJRI planning grants. Following the planning phase, 26 grantees received funds to implement sector workforce development programs in 2016. Funds for the initiative came from several federal and state funding sources, causing the agency to innovate by creating a braiding funding structure and introduce new data collection and reporting techniques so that each partnership could receive funds from a variety of sources based on the purpose of their programming and the individual participants in training programs. As a result of their efforts, the program brought industry, community based organizations, and educational institutions together in partnerships to work in innovative ways. The goals of the program were to place new employees into immediate job openings; up-skill current employees to advance skills and\/or remain competitive; and create pipelines of talent for the future. SSIREP fellows Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, Skye Leedahl, and Aaron Ley, with students Bridget Hall, Kristen Sodhi, and Marissa DeOliveira were asked by the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training to produce this report in April 2018.<\/p>\n Full Report<\/a> <\/p>\n 26 case studies were performed throughout the RJRI research. The guided interview questions for these case studies are included below.<\/p>\n Guided Interview Questions for Case Studies<\/a><\/p>\n IG-1 RJRI Cybersecurity Partnership<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SSIREP fellows Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, Skye Leedahl, and Aaron Ley, and students Bridget Hall, Kristin Sodhi, and Marissa DeOliveira conducted an analysis of The Real Jobs Rhode Island program for the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-unfeatured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8388,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions\/8388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Summary & Report<\/h4>\n
\nExecutive Summary<\/a>
\nInstitutional History<\/a>
\nMain Evaluation<\/a><\/p>\nCase Studies<\/h4>\n
\nIG-2 Biomedical Equipment and Data Scientist Apprenticeship Program<\/a>
\nIG-3 Residential Construction Partnership<\/a>
\nIG-4 RI Urban Apprenticeship Program<\/a>
\nIG-5 Rhode Island Manufacturing Growth Collaborative<\/a>
\nIG-6 Marine Trades and Composites Partnership<\/a>
\nIG-7 Leadership Development Partnership of Rhode Island<\/a>
\nIG-8 Healthy Jobs RI Partnership<\/a>
\nIG-9 Man Up 2 Careers Partnership<\/a>
\nIG-10 Pipeline to Manufacturing Careers in Ship Building Partnership<\/a>
\nIG-11 Healthcare Training Collaborative<\/a>
\nIG-12 Medtech Innovation Engine<\/a>
\nIG-13 The Rhode Island Food Management Training Partnership<\/a>
\nIG-14 Insurance Innovation Partnership<\/a>
\nIG-15 Rhode Island Financial Skills Initiative<\/a>
\nIG-16 Aquaculture Training Partnership<\/a>
\nIG-17 Construction Trades Skill-Up Partnership<\/a>
\nIG-18 Building Futures Partnership<\/a>
\nIG-19 Real Jobs IT Partnership<\/a>
\nIG-20 CNA Talent Network Partnership<\/a>
\nIG-21 Phoenix Partnership<\/a>
\nIG-22 Partnership for Real IT Jobs<\/a>
\nIG-23 The Real Jobs Pathway for Minorities and Women<\/a>
\nIG-24 Design Forward Partnership<\/a>
\nIG-25 Westerly Regional Real Jobs Partnership<\/a>
\nIG-26 Real Jobs Partnership of Northern Rhode Island<\/a><\/p>\n