Montana Green-Ready Workforce Competency Model

An American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Energy Training Partnership grant recipient, Montana Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee, is using its grant to targets current craft workers in need of skill upgrades. The success of the grant project to date was the ability to submit a grant proposal that included ten different Joint Apprenticeship & Training Councils (JATCs) from across the state.

YouthBuild Leads Green Building Efforts

The Learning Training Earning = GREEN Project

U.S. Department of Labor's Career Video Challenge

AWEA Wind Technician Skill Set

Greener Skills: How Credentials Create Value in the Clean Energy Economy

Center of Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) follow-up report to their Greener Pathways report. The report highlights some of the green programs, skills, and credentials available today. It focuses on the prominent certifications in renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Workshop - Career Pathways and Green Jobs (OR)

Charlie Johnson, Green Jobs Economist, Oregon Employment Department and Shalee Hodgson, Community College Education and Workforce Specialist, Oregon Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development Oregon’s Career Pathways Initiative transforms the state’s education system to focus on helping Oregonians attain degrees, certificates, and credentials that lead to demand occupations, increased wage gain, and lifelong learning. Oregon is identifying and mapping career paths and skill progressions that show green jobs from entry-level positions through progressive job advancement opportunities. Each of the five statewide pathways being developed will identify industry and occupational specific competencies for green jobs. Certificates will be developed where appropriate, enabling students to show evidence of technical skill proficiency to help qualify for a job or enhance employment opportunities. Oregon’s green career pathways are being developed to show education and training opportunities at all 17 of the state’s community colleges in a unified and interchangeable manner, a very different approach than the “one pathway at one college” system used for all previous pathways in the state.

Workshop - Career Pathways and Green Jobs - Career Pathways Webtool one-page Handout (OR) 0510

Charlie Johnson, Green Jobs Economist, Oregon Employment Department and Shalee Hodgson, Community College Education and Workforce Specialist, Oregon Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development Oregon’s Career Pathways Initiative transforms the state’s education system to focus on helping Oregonians attain degrees, certificates, and credentials that lead to demand occupations, increased wage gain, and lifelong learning. Oregon is identifying and mapping career paths and skill progressions that show green jobs from entry-level positions through progressive job advancement opportunities. Each of the five statewide pathways being developed will identify industry and occupational specific competencies for green jobs. Certificates will be developed where appropriate, enabling students to show evidence of technical skill proficiency to help qualify for a job or enhance employment opportunities. Oregon’s green career pathways are being developed to show education and training opportunities at all 17 of the state’s community colleges in a unified and interchangeable manner, a very different approach than the “one pathway at one college” system used for all previous pathways in the state.

Eye On Green

O*NET Webinar Questions: BLS, Training, Regional Data and Disability

Women in Green Collar Training Programs: Creating an Environmentally and Economically Sustainable South Bronx

O*NET Webinar Questions: O*NET

Women's Green Roundtables

VIDEO: Building Green Skills in California

This video was originally posted on the Apprenticeship Community of Practice (http://21stcenturyapprenticeship.workforce3one.org).

O*NET Webinar Questions: Green Occupations and Green Occupational Research

New Resources on the Green CoP

Mapping Green Career Pathways: Job Training Opportunities and Infrastructure

The Apollo Alliance and the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce have teamed up to identify components of Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin's workforce development infrastructure that can be better integrated and scaled up to help fill jobs in the clean energy sector. The reports, Mapping Green Career Pathways: Job Training Opportunities and Infrastructure, recommend strengthening existing training infrastructures to build workers’ skills to fill green-collar jobs that are being created in the construction and manufacturing sectors, which are projected to account for 55 percent of all new jobs in the emerging renewable energy and efficiency industries. According to the reports, many of the elements of a green training infrastructure already exist in each state, but there are still gaps along the green career pathway that must be filled through stronger, more integrated training programs.

O*NET Report: Greening the World of Work

Green-Collar Jobs in America’s Cities: Building Pathways out of Poverty Careers in the Clean Energy Environment

This is a guide for cities to enhance one critical component of America’s shared prosperity: Training and employing people for the higher wage, family-supporting careers in the new clean, green, energy efficient job sectors. This city guide makes a strong case that pursuing a four-step strategy – essentially a metropolitan green business and jobs development plan – provides a wealth of environmental, economic, and social benefits, including what it calls “a pathway out of poverty” for thousands of unemployed, under-employed, and hard to employ people in disadvantaged neighborhoods. The report was prepared by the Apollo Alliance, Green For All, Center for American Progress and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy.