Columbus, Ohio, is one of the six sites selected to participate in the New Skills ready network. This five-year initiative, launched by JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2020, aims to improve student completion of high-quality career pathways. In the first year of the initiative, the Columbus, Ohio, New Skills ready network team focused on building both the internal capacity of each partner organization and the capacity of the new leadership team developed to support this work. The team identified and established workgroups around work-based learning, communications and equitable career pathways to leverage the unique prioritized a number of key foundational elements of their overall strategy, including improving their data capacity and identifying the two initial program areas (health care/health services and information technology) in which they will focus their efforts for the next year expertise of each organization and to ensure progress in the key priority areas. Lastly, the team prioritized a number of key foundational elements of their overall strategy, including improving their data capacity and identifying the two initial program areas (health care/health services and information technology) in which they will focus their efforts for the next year.
This snapshot provides a summary of the two major priorities of Columbus, Ohio’s New Skills ready network team:
- Developing relationships and building capacity across and within partner organizations; and
- Identifying and analyzing program areas to attend to career pathway quality.
