Effective Strategies for Retention & Completion Joint Webinar - Part 2

Gregory Scheib, Workforce Analyst/Program Lead, Division of Strategic Investments, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration

Kristen Milstead, Workforce Analyst/Program Lead, Division of Strategic Investments, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration

Erika Humphrey, Senior Technical Assistant Consultant, AIR

Gretchen Sullivan, Senior Technical Assistant Consultant, AIR

PANELISTS

Rob Johnstone, Ph.D., Founder & President, National Center for Inquiry and Improvement

Gretchen Schmidt, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, National Center for Inquiry & Improvement

Chandana Mahadeswaraswamy, Senior Director, Career and Professional Programs and Center for Contract Training, Division of Adult and Continuing Education, LaGuardia Community College (New York)

Christina Amato, DBA Dean, eLearning Division, Sinclair College

This two-part series will introduce a framework, strategies, and resources for supporting participants from initial outreach to generate interest through supporting and tracking completion of programming and associated credential attainment, employment or advancement, and job retention.

Part 1 of this series, held in late March 2023, introduced a participant support continuum and previewed a planning tool and related resources, with a focus on identifying challenges and solutions related to the intake and enrollment, training/education program progress, and completion and certification phases of the participant lifecycle.

In Part 2, we will:

• Revisit the participant support continuum;
• Explore evidence-based best practices for supporting participant retention and completion in postsecondary training/education programs in a panel discussion with expert researchers ans practitioners;
• Leverage and deepen the conversation begun in Part 1 through facilitated peer-to-peer exchange in breakout discussions; and
• Introduce the finalized action planning tool that was previewed in Part 1 and share ideas about how grantees can use the tool with their teams and in their conversations with their technical assistance coaches.

Invited Grantees

• One Workforce grantees
• Rural Healthcare grantees

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