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11/18/2008
The West Michigan WIRED Health Care project: First Choice Career Coaching (FC3) was presented at the CAEL Conference in Philadelphia last week. This work integrates the NCRC with the Personal Skills Assessments and career coaching to help more people find their best next career step in healthcare. Download the presentation and learn more on our new Careers page.
Please send us your feedback on the website. Many of the pages are still being developed and we welcome your suggestions as we complete them. If you see areas that need attention or have suggestions for additional content that should be added, please send an email with your suggestion to bill.guest@metricsreporting.com. Check out the new pages at www.michigancrc.org. And, be sure to look at the "How we measure progress" page. It has a map of Michigan that let's you click on the county to see progress in your area on all key measures. Follow the link to the bigger map at the top of the page and have some fun clicking around Michigan to see what your neighboring counties are doing with the NCRC. 10/25/2008
Community Colleges are actively engaged in the Michgian NCRC movement. Click here to see a view of Chart 1 - Certificates that shows the colleges that have issued certificates. Macomb, Montcalm, St. Clair are listed in the certificate chart. Grand Rapids and Lake Michigan College are also issuing NCRCs at their M-TECs. If you are aware of other colleges or universites issuing NCRCs, please send me a note so I can edit this list.
Michigan moved up to 4th Place, just ahead of Louisiana, in NCRCs per capita. Michigan has 3,962.19 NCRCs per million residents. Click to see Graphic 2 - NCRCs per Capita. We need 129,070 more certificates to match number one South Carolina with 16,949.10 NCRCs per million residents.
Today Montcalm Community College reported 1187 NCRCs earned by students this year. Thanks goes out to Dennis Dunlap, chair of the North Michigan team, and Amyee Carson, YOP Facilitator at Montcalm Community College for reporting the data. 10/19/2008
Rene Stephan reported that St. Clair County provided a $25,000 grant to launch a pilot project to create awareness for the NCRC.
The Michigan NCRC Advocates website, as you know it, is our Phase 1 website. The current home page was designed to be our Resource Library page. New user friendly front pages are being designed and built right now. We plan to launch the Phase 2 website just prior to the Michigan WorkKeys Conference in November. 10/14/2008St. Clair reported strong numbers for September with 112 certificates. This September report drives the Michigan total to 38,005 NCRCs. 10/9/2008The Michigan NCRC story made the cover of ACT's ACTIVITY publication.
Keytrain usage expanded greatly in September. Metric 2 - Skills illustrates KeyTrain usage in terms of the cummulative number of KeyTrain lessons passed on a monthly basis. Email Brian Heerdt to learn more about KeyTrain.
We now have 402 Letters of Commitment (LOCs) posted on the website. Click on Chart 4 - Employer LOCs and you'll see 319 of them. The other 83 asked to keep their names private. The 402 are from 13 different counties. We also have 20 more LOCs on the way from Saginaw. They will be posted soon bringing our total to 422. Metric 3 - LOCs illustrates our monthly progress. 9/18/2008
Today we received reports from Montcalm Area Career Center and Capital Area Michigan Works! These two new field reports raised our total enough to move from fourth to third place. Click here to view graphics of Michigan's Rank and Rank on a Per Capita basis among the top ten states. 9/12/2008
Registrations are rolling in ahead of schedule for the Fourth Annual Michigan WorkKeys Conference. This year's theme is Good-to-Gold. There are only 400 spots available. Be sure to REGISTER soon. The conference planning committee met earlier this week to plan the keynotes, panel discussions, and breakout sessions. This is going to be a fantastic conference.
The call for presentations closes September 24th. The final schedule will be determined and announced the first week of October. Click here to view the 2007 conference booklet. This year's conference will be similar in structure.
Luann Dunsford, CEO, Michigan Works! Association will keynote on Workforce Development Day. Jim Ballard, Executive Director, Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals will keynote on Education Day. We will also have leaders from the State of Michigan in key roles at the conference (details to be announced).
Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth has appointed a team to work on the Michigan NCRC project. Marcia Black-Watson is the manager and Stephanie Beckhorn, Ryan Doll, Sara Spielman, Mike Beamish, Patricia Higgins, Barry Reinink, Keenan Wade, and Cynthia Wright are members of the team. This is fantastic news for the NCRC work. Marcia was instrumental in the creation of the RCAR program and is very familiar with the NCRC. It is great to see this extraordiary level of support being provided by DLEG. On behalf of the Michigan NCRC Advocates, welcome to the team. We're all looking forward to working with you.
A number of NCRC advocates attended the Michigan Works! Conference in Detroit on September 7th, 8th, and 9th. ACT and KeyTrain also had exhibitor booths at the conference. There were two breakout sessions related to the NCRC. First was a report by the RCAR team (see 7/7 entry below) and there was also a presentation by Kathy Conklin, Cindy Leyer and Bill Guest. Overall a great conference. 8/4/2008
The NCRC Advocates team met this morning to update the numbers in the database and our charts and graphs on the website. Liz and Rachael have been working hard to put all of the Letters of Commitment (LOCs) into the searchable database. It is almost done. Click on the word County at the top of Chart 4 - LOCs and you'll see the list of online LOCs listed by county. We remain 4th among the top ten states. 7/7/2008
Michigan is the only state in the top ten states that reports more Gold certificates than Bronze certificates. The Governor has been saying all along that Michigan has a more highly skilled workforce. Our data indicates she is right. Further, Michigan students scored well on the Reading for Information (RI) and Applied Math (AM) WorkKeys tests on the MME last year. 64% Scored 5 and above on RI and 60% scored 5 and above on AM.
Michigan Works! Association reported in the Spring Newsline that the Road Construction Apprenticeship Program will include a Gold National Career Readiness Certificate in the set of credentials earned by each graduate. View details at the bottom of page 8 of Newsline.
Data as of June 30th has been added to the website driving our total to 34,377. A number of schools have still not been reported, so we expect the total to continue to rise. We noticed today that Michigan is the only state with more Gold than Bronze certificates. This puts us, on average, slightly on the plus side of Silver. View the details in the announcements section. |
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