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Over the last two decades, sectoral employment has emerged as a proven approach to workforce development that results in unemployed and underskilled workers earning significantly more, increasing their likelihood of consistent work, and working in jobs with higher wages and benefits. Sector initiatives have been shown to be effective with a wide range of job-seekers and workers, including people with criminal records. An impact study of sector initiatives performed by Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) showed that people with criminal records who participated in mature, well-implemented sector initiatives earned on average $5,947 more (and, in one initiative, as much as $11,522 more) than a randomly-selected control group with similar characteristics over a twenty-four month period. In this webinar, you will hear from one of the sector initiatives studied (Per Scholas) about how they achieved these results for participants with a significant barrier to employment – their criminal record. You will also hear about a model partnership between a manufacturing sector initiative and a jails collaborative to provide formerly incarcerated people the training and supports they need to get good jobs – and to work with employers to hire them.

Panelists:

• Plinio Ayala, President & CEO, Per Scholas
• Kelly Richardson, Vice President of Operations, Per Scholas
• Paul Anselmo, President, New Century Careers
• Amy Kent, Training Team Member, New Century Careers
• Kathy McCauley, Principal, McCauley Consulting
• Amy Kroll, Administrator of Re-entry Services, Allegheny County Jail

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In this webinar, author and U.C. Berkeley professor of public policy Stephen Raphael will share relevant highlights from his book The New Scarlet Letter?: Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record. Key topics will include what is known about impact of criminal records and incarceration on people’s employment prospects, including employers’ perceptions of former inmates, and about the effectiveness of programs to help connect these job-seekers with employment. Professor Raphael will also share observations about the implications of increasing levels of incarceration and background checks on the U.S. labor market, including disparities in employment by race and ethnicity, and policy recommendations to improve employment prospects for formerly incarcerated people and those with criminal records.

Speaker:

• Steven Raphael, Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

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In this webinar, participants will learn about best practices for employers in the proper use of criminal records in hiring – and about why it is their best interests to adopt a “fair chance” approach to employment of people with criminal records. Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law will share highlights from their best practices guide for considering criminal records in hiring decisions – an invaluable tool for employers seeking both to comply with employment law and to expand their pool of available talent. Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area will share materials and findings from their recent Alameda County Business Leaders Summit on Reentry, which brought together employers, business leaders, and human resources professionals to discuss challenges and opportunities related to hiring people with past criminal records as a means of strengthening both businesses’ bottom lines and the local economy – and where many participating employers came to express an increased willingness to consider hiring candidates with criminal records.

Panelists:

• Meredith Desautels, Staff Attorney, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
• Ray P. McClain, Director, Employment Discrimination Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

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WRTP/BIG STEP, a nationally-recognized sector initiative in manufacturing and construction, has demonstrated effective and innovative practices for bringing together employers, labor unions, public and private education resources, workforce development agencies and key stakeholders from both the construction and manufacturing industries to develop real workforce solutions that meet the needs of both job-seekers/workers and employers in its target industries. Among its innovations as a regional workforce intermediary has been the development of a successful multi-craft apprenticeship model in manufacturing. In this webinar, participants will learn the basics of WRTP’s apprenticeship model, the best practices that make it successful, and WRTP’s policy recommendations regarding how WIOA rules can be designed to further access to registered apprenticeships for underserved groups.

Panelists:

• Mark Kessenich, President and CEO, WRTP/BIG STEP

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Partners for a Competitive Workforce (PCW), a workforce intermediary in Cincinnati, OH, recently launched a new apprenticeship program in manufacturing in partnership with regional manufacturers, educational institutions, and workforce investment boards. In this session, PCW will share the lessons they have learned (and are documenting through a National Network of Sector Partners (NNSP) Strategic Venture Fund grant) in the development, funding, and implementation of the machine operator and welding apprenticeship programs. Specifically, PCW will share the best practices and strategies they incorporated to improve recruiting, candidate quality, employer referral processes, and employer matching to maximize candidate fit and to eliminate employer poaching. An overview of the registered apprenticeship model will also be included.

Panelists:

• Stephen Tucker, Senior Manager of Industry Partnerships, Partners for a Competitive Workforce
• Sherry Kelley Marshall, President, Southwest Ohio Region Workforce Investment Board
• Sam Bellamy, American Fan, Welding Employer
• Chelsee Reese, Welding Apprentice
• Jeff Hodges, Thyssenkrupp Bilstein, Machine Operator Employer
• Christopher Kinney, Thyssenkrupp Bilstein, Machine Operator Apprentice
• Jim Bax, Cincinnati State, Education Provider

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2:30pm - 4:00pm Eastern Time

A conversation with Otto Scharmer and David Korten

What role does narrative play in shaping economic life? How must the current narrative change if we are to have a viable human future and an economy that works for all, including Living Earth our home and source of nurture? What will it take to discover and establish a new narrative in the public mind? If this is an exploration you are interested in please join us!

We invite you to join a MaestroConference conversation with two visionary thinkers, David Korten and Otto Scharmer, whose current books challenge the foundational assumptions of established economic thought and call for a dramatic restructuring of our economic narrative and institutions. (All you will need is your phone to join this conversation. You will not need to be on a computer!)

The conversation will be hosted by master convener and gifted facilitator, Charles Holmes. Attendees on the call will have a chance to discuss their views in small groups and field questions to David and Otto.

While there is no charge for this December 8 web event, registration is required for access to the conference line.

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About the Speakers:

David Korten is the author of the forthcoming Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth, co-founder/chair of YES! Magazine, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, founder/president of the Living Economies Forum, and a former Harvard Business School professor. His earlier books include When Corporations Rule the World, The Great Turning and Agenda for a New Economy.

Otto Scharmer is the author of Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economics, American economist, senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Business, founding chair of the Presencing Institute, and co-founder of the Global Well-being and Gross National Happiness Lab. His earlier books include Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges.

Charles Holmes, who will host this conversation, has for more than two decades designed and facilitated collaborative strategic meetings and multi-stakeholder dialogues for corporations, government, non-profits & communities. Working at the intersection of strategy and humanity, Charles asks powerful questions that invite deep reflection, generate compelling visions, and reveal new possibilities.