Governor O’Malley’s 15 Strategic Policy Goals
3. Increase the Number of Marylanders Who Receive Skills Training by 20% by End 2012
In the past, a college education or advanced training beyond high school was not required to make a decent living. But in today’s economy, education and training beyond high school are the difference between a subsistence living and family-sustaining careers. Reinforcing its efforts to support job growth and to better position Maryland to compete in the emerging global economy, the O’Malley-Brown Administration has set a goal and is implementing a plan to increase the number of Marylanders who receive skills training by 20% by 2012.
Strategies
- Increase the number of degrees and certificates awarded by Maryland’s community colleges;
- Boost enrollment in occupational skills training by expanding outreach and the leveraging additional federal and private sector funding;
- Expand the Maryland Business Works Program to advance the skills of more than 3,000 incumbent workers annually;
- Boost the number of apprenticeship programs and registered apprentices, including apprenticeships in such growth areas as healthcare, IT, cyber security and environmental remediation;
- Expand the number of adult education participants that enter post-secondary education or training;
- Increase the number of high school students who graduate from Career and Technology Education (CTE) programs and attain industry certification, licensure and early college credit;
- Boost the number of MD RISE participants who complete occupational skills training and receive an industry-recognized certificate;
- Expand the number of persons with disabilities in post-secondary education and career technology training programs and the number obtaining a degree, certificate, or technical certification; and
- Boost the outreach and advocacy efforts of Skills 2 Compete Maryland to maximize participation among Maryland’s workforce and businesses.
Read the more detailed plan to achieve this important ‘up-skilling’ goal...
Delivering Results
Progress for workers
- Launched Maryland Skills2Compete, a workforce skills vision that calls for State agencies, community colleges, local Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs), and other stakeholders to work towards the common goal of increasing the number of Marylanders who receive skills training by 20% by the end of 2012.
- 16,000 Marylanders per Month Served at One-Stops: Consistently serving 16,000 Marylanders per month with workforce services at Maryland One-Stop Career Centers.
- Increased Apprenticeship Graduates after a decline of the number of graduates from FY 2007-2009. Graduates of apprenticeship programs increased to a 3-year high in FY 2010. This pace puts the Maryland Apprenticeship and Training Program (MATP) on track to reach its 2012 graduates goal.
- Increased access to Career and Technical Education in Maryland’s public schools and increased the percentage of CTE graduates who have passed an assessment or earned industry recognition by over 10 percentage points.
- Quadrupled the number of CTE partnerships between MSDE and businesses and higher education institutions (5 in 2007 to 20 in 2010).
- Increased number of Associate Degrees and certificates awarded, and increased credit-based enrollments at Maryland Community Colleges for three years in a row through FY2010.
Increased collaboration
- Launched MD RISE, the Department of Human Resources’ partnership with state and local government, community colleges, and employers to provide job training to hundreds of TCA recipients in targeted sectors identified by the GWIB.
- Reached goal of established 10 training partnerships for MD RISE by June 2010.
- More than doubled the number of incumbent workers trained through the Maryland Business Works (MBW) incumbent worker training program from approximately 2000 to 5000 in less than two years.
Securing new funding
- Won a three-year $5.4M US Department of Labor State Energy Sector Partnership Grant that will train Marylanders for careers in energy efficiency and renewable energies
- Won a $150,000 Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Workforce Planning Grant, the goal of which is to develop a 10 workforce blue print for increasing the primary care workforce by 10%-25% over the next 10 years.
- Won a $1 million grant through the Workforce Data Quality Initiative in partnership with the University of Baltimore's Jacob France Institute to expand longitudinal databases of workforce data that link to education data.
Progress toward delivery is monitored by the GDU, and assessed regularly at agency and cross-agency Stat meetings.
