our guest speaker this morning is mary lynn noa assistant director to the michigan department of talent and economic development in her last position as the talent industry and program manager she works on the michigan advanced technician training program the community college skilled trades equipment program and work based learning programs she has worked for the michigan department of treasury management and budget as well as working in both the michigan house in senate in a variety of legislative and policy positions please join me in giving a warm west coast welcome to mary lynn noah alliance initiatives so these are seventeen initiatives that we've developed to try to increase career awareness and also reduce the talent gap how many of you have heard of the michigan career pathways alliance ok need to do a better job of getting the word out there and we have a couple kickoff events that we will be hosting later there's also the hot twenty five so i'm just going to ask a question and dan you're not allowed to give the answer because i talked about it earlier how many jobs  that are posted to right now in michigan do you think do not require a graduate degree or a back laureate degree sure is that better sorry about that so anybody want to take a percentage eight percent so when we go out and talk to students and counselors and teachers and parents one of the themes that we really want to get out there is that you don't have to borrow a mortgage to have a career and there are multiple pathways to your education that we want you to be career and college ready so my mom always gave me advice when i was in high school this is the last time that somebody else is probably going to pay for your education so take advantage of it so my message to students is trying to figure out how to also get your post secondary education paid for whether that's through an apprenticeship an internship a job shadowing a job because many employers do have to issue an reimbursement and i think students don't realize that there are multiple ways to get to their career and multiple ways to get to their education so with that i want to talk a little bit about ted so ted was created back in two thousand and thirteen and ted makes up multiple departments  so we often talk about place and talent so under ted you have the michigan strategic on immediacy mischka talent investment agency and the land bank so business needs talent talents once place in place needs business so i met talk a little bit about the talent gap so right now and many of you i know are painfully aware of this that available and skilled workforce is a foremost challenge michigan's economic success that low unemployment rates across michigan are great news but they create a significant challenge so this is a kind of a scary graph to me and some of you may have seen us as far as job postings versus newly awarded certificates and degrees for information technology there over ninety two thousand but we're only graduating about a little more than five thousand same thing with health care manufacturing engineering design and manufacturing and skilled trade technologies we know we have to do a better job preparing the next generation of workers part of it is also an awareness gap that students don't know the skills that are really needed today as you all know that every job has an i t component yet there aren't enough courses taught in high schools for i t so students are thinking and what they're saying is that by the time one third of fourth graders they've already lost interest in science by eighth grade fifty percent of students deemed science irrelevant to their education or future plans only thirty percent or thirty two percent of high school graduate are qualified to attend four year college universities as far as having the math and english skills necessary to succeed so we've got to do a better job in high school and and school all over so skills challenge fifty nine point six percent of students in our four year program or graduate only twenty seven percent of students in our two year program are graduate and females and minorities leg even further behind so we need to change the conversation and we're asking all of you to help us do that we have invested quite a bit of money into a marketing campaign and i know marketing is a dirty word in state government unfortunately so we're allowed to say outreach not marketing so we actually have just launched going pro we're doing career path finder and a number of a different career where in a story so one of the things we're asking for you is to also help get those stories out  there changing the conversation changing the conversation so adults have been printed stereotypes and statements on to kids one of the things i was just at aquinas college last year for last week for german curry day and i was surprised by how many students when i talked about registered apprenticeships said oh a both that's for kids who don't want to go to college not true so there's a lot of misperceptions about what a job is mark what they can do and our system sorts by oversimplifying either you're going to college you're not going to college and that's not the right message and we know that so we're asking everyone to start asking what do you want to do and set a word you want to go to college what do you want to do in a career multiple career pathways and we need to all help change that conversation so part of that is going pro with professional trades how many of you have seen the billboards for going pro ok so not enough how many of you have seen any of the commercials or heard about going pro ok so we're doing more again to get stories out there there's a website with stories there's a number of different conversational groups we're working with parent teaches associations with career counselors to get the word out there unfortunately the ratio of counselors to students is one to seven hundred which isn't which is workable for students really to find out about what their career pathways are as part of our career pathways alliance we're requiring and seventh eighth or ninth grade so it's not in the school system yet but hopefully by next year that every student will have to take a credit course instead of just having an e d p plan where it's one and done where they're actually having to sit down and learn about different career pathways and we're going to ask all of you to help with that as far as partnering with your schools how many of you have heard of a t d c c ok that's kind of a sad thing because the talent district career councils to actually make recommendations for career pathways so we're also trying to raise awareness about asking businesses to help with that planning that's going on with your workforce development boards so with going pro and pathfinder pathfinder is actually a career exploration tool and we're just kicking that off you'll hear more about that in december her career awareness month so pathfinder basically gives the students so there's a portal for students and there's a part of her parents in a porter for adults that want to change careers and what it does is it identifies you can type in a nurse and it will show you all the schooling you'll have to have at walsall into all the michigan now again it's just michigan based but it will link to all the michigan schools that allow and provide degrees and certificates it also gives you the return on investment because a conversation we have not had enough with students is you shouldn't have to borrow a mortgage to have an education so there are ways again to get that stackable court and you can start out in west michigan you've got a premier apprenticeship program as a medical assistant and you can go on and then earn your nursing degree so again having a conversation with students about how do you get started in a career if you're not sure what you want to do what about starting out as a medical assistant or a surgical technician and then going on and getting your next to gray too many students are graduating from programs and they're not doing well when they get out they have the debt and then they go on and it's not a career path that they really want because they've not had any experience and their career path some career pathways alliance so i'm i'm going to go through some of these quickly and highlight what those seventeen an issue does are so i elevate a productive use of education development plan that every student has to has to do instead of one and done really making  living document increase opportunities for career describe various part of the school improvement plans implement career exploration and job readiness and utilize tools for student career planning how many of you have heard of ok so about eighty eight percent of the schools in michigan use grew a cruiser right now there's another add on called c c inspirer which is basically for them to look at all the different jobs all the different internships having some of that information about what's there right in their community rain reason school district actually hired three career counselors and they created a complete asset map of all the different opportunities for the students in their schools so we're asking and also have funded there's a million dollars though we're right in the throes of the start of the fiscal year we're ending the last fiscal year we're also developing purposely or nineteen so many of these employers these recommendations we are hoping will be part of the fiscal year one thousand budget so that you'll see those by next fall in the schools  other parts of the career pathway alliance and hance career counseling we know we don't have enough current counselors so again more funding for current counselors really focusing on the early and seventh eighth ninth grade after today but each school is required to have something from k through twelve so having those conversations implementing talent transcripts and then showcasing the michigan america curriculum flexibility too many people don't understand and the students don't understand that they have opportunities in school were allowing again need legislation but working on getting computer science to count as a foreign language right now students have to have a two year requirement showcasing geometry and carpentry right now only seven schools in the state of michigan have geometry and carpentry to meet one of the math requirements so there are four credits that students have to aftermath the perception is that ok they have to take a math class in their senior year and that they've got to take at least algebra and that's not true they can take says to stacks they could take other types of course says to meet those requirements and again allowing health programs to count as physical education requirements conversation with the student what are they doing in school have they done an educational development plan how many of you i know manufacturing we week was last week so how many of you had high school students come through your corporation your plan a few of you so asking again homework assignments sorry for that but ask you know think about next year would you open up your business for manufacturing week which you sponsor a student would you job shadow part of their career pathways alliance is also asking teachers to tell you in councils or tell you they don't know what you do they haven't been to your facilities they don't know manufacturing yaz and in less they can see it for students if they can't see it they can't be asking you to also support and be more involved in your high schools i'm going to pick on kelly a little bit because she shared that they've got a training academy you have registered apprenticeships you do enter in ships they do co ops so they've got a complete  infrastructure to really help that training for their next generation of workers so recruit train and structures so adapt and communicate the michigan department of education policy that allows for changes for non teachers certified  instructors authorized for up to ten years right now someone can teach if they have a license for up to a year and it's only supported by a school district what we're working on our administrative role changes so that someone from your plant could actually say transition in their career they could teach in a school the technical skills and we are desperately in need of technical trainers so this is something that we're trying to get the word out there they also have past teachers that retired from your instruction there are over fifty different critical career paths i t courses so there are seventeen different career clusters for a c t e i t manufacturing are just two of those and we are in process of communicating with all those teachers that just recently retired that they can come back and still collect their pension to be able to teach because they are in such desperate need of teachers but we're also asking you as business leaders what about allowing for your individual to be able to teach in a school so could they could they do fifty fifty so that they could teach at a school to bring up that next level if you've got somebody who's retiring what about allowing them to do something part time and still do training at your business but also train those students in the community and i know that's a big ask but we were in desperate times to get more teachers and more instructors so that the students can see and get trained appropriately part of it is also developing a teaching certificate so there are a couple schools that right now if you have a back laureate degree you can go back for just a year and become a teacher so we're also talking to people about current changes so you've worked on a plan for twenty years maybe you want to teach for another ten years or another twenty years thinking about different opportunities so supporting career development bringing education and business together establish a formal entity so i talked about that t v c c so one of the things that we're working on is creating a career and education advisory council that would be part of your community part of your region so part of the sixteen michigan works there's a lot of money that flows through federal money we owe a t a a and so really targeting perkins funds targeting those jobs and targeting those training funds on the top five career pathways in your community developing a professional trades books we've already done that match crowd funding for crowd counselors and professional trade programs and promote nontaxable deductions for professional trades so there is on the table just won and sorry about that because we were getting those about nontaxable dioxins and i'll talk about that a little bit more in the presentation so so we're working with the higher education community to make sure that those articulation agreements are in place so that the students don't have to repeat courses that are like a ball that taxpayers have already paid for in high school and then again ensuring state  businesses are saying well we don't know even what's in our community and can you tell us which high schools have these students we can't yet by we're implementing our reporting system that will be in place next year so that we can tell by each high school which certificates in which programs they have for each of those programs it's just a start we know we can do better so expanding c t e we strongly believe in common history based education and expanding more opportunities c t e is not everywhere in the state and so it shouldn't matter where you live and what your zip code is to be able to have opportunity we again know we need to do more there are only a handful of counties that have actually passed a c t milledge so part of our ass for fiscal year nineteen is more funding for programs and also equipment right now in the budget there's twelve million dollars for equipment you heard at the beginning of my presentation i worked on a fifty million dollars program for community colleges there's some great equipment at your community colleges the grand rapids community college kalamazoo community college all had multi million dollar grants and they had to match those funds for c n c equipment welding equipment and this equipment is very expensive for example one piece of equipment  triumph laser a welder is seven hundred fifty thousand dollars or higher depending on the model that you buy one of the stories i like to tell us that wash out community college with all the equipment that they have they actually invite the u of m engineering students for a two year or two week boot camp so to speak to actually be able to utilize that equipment so they've got a nice partnership between their technical engineering tech students and the u s engineering students to work on that equipment so we're also the governor had actually asked for twenty million so we're hoping we're going to get more next year for more c t e equipment so this is the piece that i was talking about that's on the table about what can businesses do and i know we have a lot of ass but again we can do a better job promoting it there are tax advantages for donating to schools not just equipment but paying for dad or deferring cost software curriculum development volunteer expenses training supplies sponsoring events paying for training for instructors and providing inventory and other consumable products for school so what can you do all of you play an important role and we got to close this talent gap together again changing the conversation letting your voice be heard and this is not just about the next two years but it's really about a systemic change helping to change that conversation and develop the next talent so i want to go through those seventeen initiatives and kind of give you a quick status update i think i've got time so talking about elevating a productive use of the a t p plan increasing opportunities for career discovery in with that courage discoveries so really elementary middle and high school so with career path finder and with some of the career exploration tools that we're going to be having asking all of you how what can you do asking you to mentor so some of it is on line right now in my bright future anybody can be a mentor again you've got to go through a screening but it's about an hour a week or an hour a month where we're asking you to help with blogging so someone can ask or i want to know what you do as a vice president and the student can ask a question and any of the other students can see that so what does it mean to be manufacturing what does what do you what is your train like what do you do in a typical day those kind of questions so that you have that i am lined kind of mentoring with the students so they can ask a wide variety of individuals questions about jobs using tools for their career planning again expanding career cruising my bright future in pathfinder there was a million dollars and the k twelve budget to allow for expansion of my bright future that's not going to take it everywhere in the state but that will get about fifty percent of the schools we hope by next year will get to the remainder of education and business together developing this trade book that's already on line matching crowdsourcing crowd funding for counsellors and promoting the nontaxable deductions a lot of this is going to require legislation which were already  play and you're going to hear more and the next couple months about the tools so with that just opening it up i guess can we do questions now ok stories again more marketing material it's really driving it down with those career counselors so we can build all this information or we can do more videos but if it doesn't get in front of the students it's not going to matter so really requiring that career counseling expansion having courses in this for the students in seventh eighth or ninth grade so that they're seeing the videos toronto canada  there's a company there education actor where they've done great little almost like many t v shows so fifteen minute twenty minute thirty minute lessons where the students can see somebody doing a product creating something and then implementing it at their classroom some more hands on experience not only seeing the video but then doing that project in the classroom so that's what that's where we want to take it is really getting that driving a down to the classroom at all different levels not just seventh eighth or ninth grade not just high school but really even earlier so that we start having those conversations about why are you taking why are you taking science how does this matter why it's an important every job requires an i t component and we know that we can do more to tell those stories how many of you have registered apprentice right now ok so we'd love to see more expansion of registered apprenticeship so i think there's a lot of misperceptions about registered apprenticeships there are over a thousand different careers that we have  net codes for registered apprentices we have over fourteen thousand five hundred active apprentices right now in michigan those many are in construction trades but we also have health care we have i t we have finance banking basically almost any career you can have a registered apprentice so there are five different components of a registered apprentice basically they have to have at least two thousand hours a year they have to have one hundred forty four hours of r t i which is registered training and that doesn't have to be credit hours that it's again it's not credit hours at could be a course at a community college it could be even at your own training academy they have to have a one to one mentor but that doesn't mean that that one person has assigned to them twenty four seven it just means that you have to have a lead worker assigned to them why they're on the job a graduated wage so if they're in an apprentice for one year or three years at least one time during that pathway they have to have a graduated wage and then they end up with a certificate at the end that can be transferred anywhere in the united states so many of you have programs that probably qualify for registered apprenticeship right now there's a lot of different incentive money out there so with the skilled trades training fun if it's three thousand dollars per new registered apprentice there's also different federal grants at the state has so incentive funding of two to three thousand dollars additional incentive funding with braided funding so west michigan works has a number of different models including their medical assistant and that is a national model where the majority in fact this class it's one hundred percent paid the training is paid through different incentives with the federal state funds so it's just something to think about that if you're interested in a registered apprenticeship you probably already have a program or training right now there are a number of different resources that are out there that can help you and we really want to plant that message that the way to create and to fill this talent gap is to do your own training and it's a big ask we know about but there are resources out there that we can help you with and again west michigan works i talk about them a lot because they hold the standards so is a player sponsor they're taking care of the paperwork for you with the federal government they're taking care of coordinating and breaking those funds and they actually worked with a number of different employer groups to come up with their curriculum so they worked with three community colleges grand rapids community college muskegon community college in kirkland sorry i'm missing one but they've worked depending on the program so it is something to think about if you're interested in connect with your west michigan works or even want to your west your other michigan works offices so just want to plant that seed about registered apprenticeship other question yes you got it part of it is we're trying we're going to be kicking off crowd funding source meeting with foundations but we're also asking for more appropriations so again but that's until fiscal year nineteen so we're asking businesses as well is there something that would you be willing to donate would you be willing to participate in crowd funding would you be willing to talk to your legislators and again i can't advocate that you lobby but would you be willing to talk to your legislators about this is a critical need and we know that the message isn't getting the students we've been doing all these other things are participating in manufacturing day were hosting were jobs shadowing but we need more individuals you know on the front lines working with students and it's also not just a career counselors but it's really  making plans even though the required most students just check it off they don't have a conversation they're not actively engaging on a regular basis thinking about the careers so again it's funding and were asking for more  ok well thank you i know there was a little dry lot taken it this morning but we are asking also if you would consider partnering with us on the career pathways alliance and thank you  thank you very when we know we all have a part to play in the talent war talent attraction talent development is top of mind for all of our members so thank you for coming to see us today and we have a small token of appreciation from one of our member firms cherry republic so enjoy the michigan made