Charting a Course: Responding to the Industry-Related
Adult Basic Education Needs of the Texas Workforce
Handbook One: Planning and Implementation Tips
for Program Planners and Administrators

Module Three: Facilitating a Team of Stakeholders to Provide a Continuum of Services

Survey: Providing a Continuum of Services

Any blueprint for successful delivery of workforce-related instruction must identify those stakeholders and partners without whom adult education programs are limited in helping adults reach their education, training, and employment goals. The following is a list of workforce related services critical to adults’ success. Which can each stakeholder provide?

  • Assessments
  • Assistance with employment-related equipment and clothing
  • Basic skills training
  • Business and industry-related language and terminology
  • Childcare resources
  • Classroom space
  • Computer lab access
  • Coaching on workforce-related topics (ADA, OSHA, ISO 9000)
  • Connections to employers
  • Cross-training opportunities
  • Industry-related ESL instruction for incumbent workers
  • Industry-related ESL instruction for displaced workers
  • Employee benefits information
  • Employment information
  • Employment readiness skills training
  • Facilities for instruction
  • Follow up on new employees
  • Funding for bridge programs
  • Funding for supplementary services
  • Funding for postsecondary education and training
  • Guest speakers
  • Industry-related English language instruction
  • Information on funding / services for displaced workers
  • Internships
  • Job task analysis
  • Job descriptions, listings, postings
  • Job fairs and job sourcing
  • Job shadowing opportunities
  • Labor market trends
  • Language task analysis
  • Linkages to workforce and business related resources
  • Loan access information
  • Occupational skills training
  • Off-site training
  • On-site training
  • One stop career services
  • Prevailing wage information
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Recruitment
  • Referrals and followup
  • Screening of job applicants
  • Skills assessment and interpretation
  • Skills inventory
  • Skills certification
  • Space for meetings
  • Tours of plant facilities
  • Training dollars for instructor time, equipment, instructional materials
  • Transition services
  • Vocational English as a Second Language (VESL)
  • Wage information
  • Workforce-related resources

 

Contact information:

Name ___________________________________ Position _________________________________

Company/ Organization Represented ____________________________________________________

Phone # ________________________ Email address ______________________________

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