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La. Talent Development Pipeline
Louisiana's Talent Development Pipeline
PROBLEM:
Louisiana has a significant skills gap with 1.2 million (well over half) working age adults (25-64) with a high school diploma or less. Meanwhile, about 4 out of 5 of the quality jobs in our economy require some college or certification. This is a dire complex social problem!
Louisiana has a significant skills gap with 1.2 million (well over half) working age adults (25-64) with a high school diploma or less. Meanwhile, about 4 out of 5 of the quality jobs in our economy require some college or certification. This is a dire complex social problem!
SOUTHERN STATES SCHOLARS SOLUTIONS:
- S3’s mission is to coordinate diverse organizations coming together to solve complex social problems.
- S3's vision is to address the unique holistic education and workforce development challenges of underserved youth and adults have in the southeastern region of the United States (and beyond) by building collective impact groups.
- S3 is an “economy of scale” that serves those who serve the underserved using the collective impact model. Our collective impact model has aligned cross sector support to triage participants to wrap-around resources and educational opportunities.
- To date collective impact of our partners include: being instrumental in recruiting the IBM P-Tech dual enrollment program to Louisiana, creating innovative jobs skills legislation (SR 113 and HR 112), and collaborating with Blue Cross Blue Shield Louisiana on the development of a community based talent acquisition pipeline for three job classifications.
- S3 is building a “Louisiana Talent Development Pipeline” that will be sustained by a group of committed skilled scientist from multiple universities who work together year round to forecast, write, manage, and report on evidence based federal research grants. Additionally, that group works in harmony with John G. Daniel, Founder, President and CEO of Southern States Scholars to seek funding from wealthy individuals, local, regional, and national foundations and also to assist corporations in their talent acquisition.
- S3 has a community-determined common agenda, shared measurement that prioritizes lived experience, mutually reinforcing activities built on trust and strong relationships, culturally responsive communication, community-led Backbone Organization, grounding in equity, race, and intersectionality, places equal emphasis on direct service and systems change, and advocates for equitable distribution of resources.
Population Served
Talent development pipeline includes the following groups:
• Prenatal system from 0 to 3 years old
• Early head-start
• Head-start
• Pre-K and Kindergarten Level
• Elementary Level
• Middle School Level
• High School Level
• Community & Technical colleges
• Four year degrees
• Advance degrees
• Employment Opportunities
• Entrepreneurial Opportunities
