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I will tell you that at our small institution, they prepare me for the good, the bad, and the ugly for the workplace.
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Hbcus have a long-standing tradition of excellence in education and community involvement.
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They provide access to talented student population and foster innovation and research opportunities.
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Partnering with these institutions can contribute to both workforce development and social impact.
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By aligning HBCUs and partnering with HBCUs with your workforce development organizations It’s happened to a dedicated talent pool engaged in meaningful research and strengthening the communities that we so love.
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So, Joy. Everybody always asks me, and I don’t understand why But they always ask me, what are the steps? How do you build these apprentices? How do you build these partnerships with HBCUs. And it’s really simple. They’re easily approachable.
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But I will tell you this, you have to have a game plan.
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First, you want to research and do outreach. And we’re going to discuss this further along when I give you more examples.
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You want to learn about these HBCUs and HBCCs. You want to learn about the programs, the faculty and the students.
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I had the honor and the privilege of presenting to some HBCC students at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund inaugural Workforce Development Conference last month.
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And I tell you, those students, they blew my mind. They reminded me of myself when I was at Suno some years ago. So you want to learn about these universities and colleges. You want to learn about their students. You want to learn about the programs they offer. Because if you are sitting, you may be sitting right across the street from an HBCU and their students are needing your service.
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They need to know who you are and you need to know who they are.
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Also, you need to help them develop programs. A lot of HBCUs and HBCCs are wanting you to come and introduce yourselves. They’re wanting to know what’s going on in workforce development. They’re wanting the assistance, but they are also like you not knowing who to contact or how to begin. So how can you develop these programs? A lot of HBCUs and HBCCs have been reaching out to us
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To tap into registered apprenticeships. Some of their students may be eligible to receive your services like we are vocational rehab.
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Some of them may also be able to receive some of your support services resources.
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And then also you can introduce them to employer partners that you may be working with.
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So it is a win-win for both parties. So my charge to you is Start researching, start doing your outreach and start helping them develop pathways of or programs For their students. But most of all, I want you all to sustain that engagement. Don’t just reach out today and then don’t reach out anymore.
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Don’t reach out because the grant says you need to reach out to HBCUs and HBCCs.
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Make it meaningful because if I have said this and if I don’t say it, I know some people will say, well, why you didn’t?
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They know when you’re just there for a moment. You want to be able to provide them with service and don’t over promise what you guys can do.
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But you want to be able to provide them with the opportunities that they can be able to give to their students. So sustaining that engagement. Yes, the grants say reach out to it. Yes, the contract says reach out to it. But don’t just do it because the grant or the contract says it.
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Do it meaningfully and be intentional. So how have HCAF been successful in building partnerships with HBCUs and HBCCs?
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One thing I forgot to put their logo in, we have partnered with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
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Also, we partner with Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Jarvis Christian College. I mean, Jarvis Christian University.
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When Morehouse School of Medicine, they built a CHW apprenticeship program.
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Hcap wasn’t there in the beginning, but the state of Georgia reached out to us to be able to help them implement and expand their offerings. Currently, they’re working just on CHW, but in their five-year plan, they’re wanting to expand
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They’re registered apprenticeship opportunities into more so they can give more opportunities to their students.
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But how did this partnership develop? It developed by us working together with the state of Georgia’s apprenticeship Office And then HCAP being able to provide them with the resources they would need to be able to fulfill what they were wanting to do. Yes, they had trailblazers there. Yes, they have the education.
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But one thing that I love about Morehouse School of Medicine is that they’re the pillar of wanting to do more and doing beyond that.
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Jarvis Christian University is the same way. I met them at another, the White House Initiative HBCU conference.
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And they already had a registered apprenticeship program. It wasn’t active, so we reactivated it and we started going out into the community.
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They didn’t know who we were, but I knew who they were.
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So it’s a matter of starting the conversation. Where do you begin? How do you start?
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Who do you contact? They’re not afraid of you and you shouldn’t be afraid of them.
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So if you have the resources, I guarantee it, if you have a plan, they will welcome you with open arms, especially if your plan is going to be to help their students be successful.
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So what would be some next steps? And ladies and gentlemen, I did not have a long, lengthy presentation. I wanted more dialogue. I wanted you guys to ask questions.
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There is no question, big or small, that I won’t be able to answer.
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But working with HBCUs and HBCCs is one of the highlights of my workday.
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So next steps will be let’s work together and be intentional. If you’re in a state that have HBCUs around them, let’s build out a plan. Let’s identify those HBCUs and HBCCs.
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And then reach out to see what their academic offerings are, what kind of student organizations have, and even their career development initiatives.
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They have career fairs. They have job fairs. They have individuals coming in and giving information to their You need to be able to link up with those individuals at that university or college that put on those events so you’ll be able to have a time slot or be able to present about the offerings that you can provide to their students.
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And even the institution. You want to establish points of with career services and faculty leadership, workforce development, and student affairs. Now, I will tell you guys, it’s not easy.
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It is, I can’t tell you that it is hard because if you’re trying to contact the president.
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It’s not going to work. The president is president. He or she don’t have time.
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To come and give us, well, for me or you to come in and give them a 30 minute speech of what we can do.
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That’s what they have workforce development for, student affairs for. So I tried to contact presidents, y’all.
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It didn’t work. So I had to sit back and rethink what I should do. I tapped into some past resources and contacts and they were like, Joy, you really need to reach out to the continuing education departments, the career services or workforce development
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If not all three are on that university or college Campus, one of the other offices are. So that’s where I’ve been having success in the continuing education office.
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In the workforce development department or with career services. I’m starting to get some traction with student affairs.
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But it hasn’t taken off yet. But with faculty leadership. With what I do in registered apprenticeship, they’re thinking that I’m trying to change and change their curriculum and all this other stuff, y’all. Like I told you, it’s going to be hard, but it’s going to be worth it.
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So what I started to do was I have an Excel spreadsheet I have all of HBCUs on this spreadsheet and I have, if they have a career services.
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Department, if they have a workforce development department, if they have whatever departments that deal with students, student affairs, I have all of that on the Excel spreadsheet.
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With the point of context. I also see when grants are awarded.
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To see if any HBCUs have been awarded that grant. An example of that is a new grant that HRSA put down called the Geriatric Workforce Educational Program.
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A few HBCUs received that grant and inside that grant, they have a registered apprenticeship component.
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Nine times out of 10, that HBCU, because a lot of other institutions don’t know about registered apprenticeships.
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I have a section on my Excel spreadsheet where I have that contact information to reach out. So that’s how I’m initiating outreach.
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What programs do you have at your offices that can contribute to their student success?
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What resources do you have at your offices that can contribute to these students success? That’s how you will be able to identify the HBCUs and HBCCs to work with.
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And establish those points of contact. And then again, in the beginning, like I said, you want to sustain that engagement. You want to develop a framework.
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I have a monthly call with Jarvis Christian. I have a bi-monthly call with Morehouse College School of Medicine and all of my other HBCUs and HBCCs that I’m building relationships with, they will be on that same level.
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If I hear about grants and if it’s a program that they have at their school, I’m sending them that grant information. If they’re telling me their students need help, I’m trying to send them or make connections to workforce development.
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Remember when we were kids and it said takes a village. It’s going to take a village for us to tap into this untapped resource of HBCUs and HBCCs. I’m not an expert. I’m only a graduate.
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I’m not an expert. I’m only a program manager here. But I would say this.
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Working with my HBCUs, the ones that I love so dearly, that’s rich and true, has been one of the highlights of being able to present to you about this information.
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So with all of that being said. I want you guys, if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or issues.
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Please come off mute or put them in the chat box and I will answer your questions to the best of my ability.
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For sure, somebody got one question.
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Of course. Since no one has any questions. Okay, I heard somebody say they do have a question.
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I do have a question. My name is Treva Smith. My camera is… glory today. Anyways.
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Okay.
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My question is, I’m in Kansas and we don’t have an HBC in the state of Kansas.
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There are a couple in Missouri closer to the east side. What is your best strategy for us folks who don’t have those in our state.
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I would say… One, if you have a neighboring state that have HBCUs reach out. But two, start attending those HBCU, HBCC focused conferences. That’s how you can make the connections
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Most of their students are How can I say this? They’re out of state students.
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So I lived in New Orleans all of my life. I went to Southern University of New Orleans sooner. So I was there. I was local.
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But we had students that was coming near and far to our school. So I would say if you can partner with your If they’re on that verge, like if you can go over there and offer services partnering with your neighboring states
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Or just start attending those HBCU, HBCC focused conferences. I know Thurgood Marshall has a few conferences There are some more, there was one called Empowered. But I can find some and send them out to NADOps so they can share them with you. But there are conferences that that is focused around HBCUs.
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Now, with the new government and the new administration. They typically have the White House Initiative HBCU conference every September. I don’t know if that’s still happening.
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But if it does, I’ll send that information to Kimberly to share out to the team, to you all as well.
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Thank you.
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You’re welcome.
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So one question in the chat was our challenge has been trying to maintain connections with our HBCUs and HBCCs. Okay, let me tell y’all this.
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Because I worked at two HBCs Two HBCUs, one private and one public.
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You will have somebody in one position, but they’re doing 17 other different positions. And I’m pretty sure that you guys who was in workforce development can attest to that. You can say amen.
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Because they want you to do this. We all want workforce development wants you to do this.
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And then a thousand other things. So it’s the same thing. It’s not just on HBCU and HBCC campuses. It’s on every institutional campus.
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So they really, I mean, turnover is real. But I will say this, if you’re experiencing those challenges of keeping good context.
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Just if you can find one contact, like I, my friends are at career services.
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That’s where I go or workforce development or continuing ed. Those three offices, their staff always stays the same. I haven’t had any turnover within those within those three departments. So I would say start with workforce development, career services or continuing ed, and they’ll be able to provide you with
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The context, but those three departments will give you student access. So if you’re trying to get into like a college of nursing or other like different academic programs It’s going to be hard because let me tell y’all some them deans, oh, they deaning. And yeah, that’s so true.
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But look into partnering with the career services The workforce development Or the continuing ed. If not, all three on that campus, one or the other is on that college campus.
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The grant, someone asked about grants, the grants are located on grants.gov.
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And then a lot of the grants, they may remove the HBCU and HBCC names.
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And they may just say underrepresented institutions or minority serving institutions.
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And that’s what they’re reading about HBCUs. So there’s a new probably a new grant coming down. Don’t know. It’s around nursing. And they may have a part in that grant that wants you to tap into those underrepresented minority serving institutions.
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You really have to read the grants to see what their target population It’s consisting of.
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Oh. So with my program, what we have is registered apprenticeships, right?
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And registered apprenticeships, everybody is talking about it. It’s really, I think it’s going to save our workforce.
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It’s one program that will save our workforce, I should say.
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And a lot of employers reach out to us And they’re wanting to build occupations in nursing, in red tech, in surgical tech, in these higher level positions in healthcare.
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The pushback that I get from my HBCUs or from deans. And then I’ve even had someone say, well, we vet everybody that we partner with.
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And I had to challenge that individual. I was like, you’ve vet everybody you partner with.
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But you’re a partner with Amazon who’s hiring your students to be in a warehouse. And here I’m hiring, I’m trying to partner you with this hospital that will hire 15 of your nursing students.
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So they’ll look at us and think that the services that we are providing will not be… what their students are wanting But when I presented to these students at the Thurgo Marshall College Fund last month.
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These students were hungry for a registered apprenticeship opportunity. They went back to school telling them about the registered apprenticeship opportunity. And then the school started reaching out to me. So it’s just like, if you can’t get on the campus.
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And talk to the individuals in charge Let’s find where these students are located and start talking to these students. Because again, these students need your resources.
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Some of them are working three and four jobs. Just to pay tuition. Some of them have families and they need support. Some of them need you and by them keeping you out.
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Doesn’t make sense. We’re trying to bridge that gap to help you get in to help them provide services.
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Like I said in the beginning, they don’t know what you offer. They don’t know that you even exist.
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So we need to come up with a plan, an event or something to highlight and showcase What workforce development is about and the services that we provide to their students and the services that we can provide to their students.
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If eligible, we got to make sure that we say that if they’re eligible.
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So with working together and being on one accord and being like that village We have to be in alignment with each other.
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So if you’re wanting to partner with HBCUs and looking to partner with HBCUs, you can reach out to me. I’ll be more than happy.
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To talk to you, to help you develop a plan. To do office visits with you. If you’re in Texas, I will do some office visits because I’m local in Texas and I know a lot of the people in Louisiana.
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So we have to work together in order to be able to fulfill or provide services to HBCUs and HBCCs.
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And make it meaningful. And again, being intentional. I do. I am Timothy. I am in contact with the divine eye. I am a member of Delta Sigma Theta Incorporated.
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So with some of the programs that we have at our local chapter, I always give information to them to give out to our community.
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It’s just sometimes they’re… where we’re located, we can’t go over here.
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And service. So it’s just making those connections with other divine nine um members And making sure that they know about the services. Hey, Brittany. Hey, Sarah.
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So yeah, we have to make the connection somewhere. We have to build out a plan.
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Guys, I don’t know it all. And I’m still learning how to partner still partner with some of our HBCUs and HBCCs. I will say the president, some of the presidents at these institutions have been very graceful of sending my information to their staff.
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And I’ve met with some of the staff, but it’s just, you know, we can’t always contact, we can’t always depend on the president to do anything. We have to do the groundwork.
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And again, you can’t do it by yourself. I know you guys are are busy So let me help you. Let’s work together. If you want to do an event.
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In your state where there is multiple HBCUs and invite these HBCUs, let’s do it.
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Let’s do an event. We can talk about the services. We can talk about registered apprenticeships.
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We can make it into a yearly Or even a quarterly thing until they register what we’re trying to do. And again.
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You have to keep in mind that our definition of workforce development It’s totally different from their definition.
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Of workforce development, just like it’s different at an employer’s. So when we say workforce development, we know what we’re talking about.
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But we want to make sure that they know what we’re talking about when we’re talking about work.
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What we’re talking.
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So that this is all of my contact information. I’m also on LinkedIn. You can find me underneath my name. You guys can connect.
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If you don’t have any other questions, like I said, it was going to be a short presentation because I really wanted you guys to ask me questions on how to partner and I can give you advice and give you some tips.
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But as I stated, I’ve been in this position three years.
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And if I can’t do 100 or have a list of 100, if I can get a good 10, I’m happy. I’m happy because I’m helping those students at that 10. So if you get one point number.
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Uh-huh.
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I have a question. I’m sorry to interrupt and I’m sorry that I’m not on screen. I’m actually a little under the weather.
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No problem.
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I am an apprenticeship navigator with Maryland Department of Labor here in Maryland.
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Mm-hmm.
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In Maryland, we have four HBCUs. So, and I know you talked about actually linking up with the HBCUs to basically bring employers to bring registered apprenticeships to the students. But have you ever actually started registered apprenticeship programs within the HBCU itself?
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Like, you know, as far as like some of the occupations that they have that they actually hire at the different HBCUs, have you done any of that or has it been more so getting employers registered as an apprenticeship program and then connecting the students with the employers.
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What I’m seeing is more HBCCs, which is the historically black community colleges doing registered apprenticeships more than the universities.
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Okay.
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Oh.
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But I’m seeing a twist now because a lot of HBCUs are being brought in with employers to be the RTI provider and then tap into their student population as a pipeline.
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So more HBCCs are registering and being a sponsor But more HBCUs are being the related technical instruction provider and then a talent pipeline to the employer.
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Okay.
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So when the employee, it’s crazy because the employer always asks joy how can we recruit you know more from underrepresented populations, more from HBCUs. I’m like, are you reaching out to them?
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What does your marketing look like? Have you made any contact? So that’s another thing like what does our marketing look like to bring in more HBCUs and HBCCs. Here at HCAP, we didn’t have anything, so I created something.
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So you want to look at marketing. You want to look at what you’re currently doing. And if that’s not working, we need a better plan. So I’m seeing more HBCCs down in Alabama.
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Doing more registered apprenticeship sponsorships, but more HBCUs being the RTI provider.
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Thank you for that. Thank you.
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You’re welcome. Any other questions?
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I love this presentation, y’all. And let me tell you, I’m going to be honest.
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I really had to really think and like really go hard on what I really wanted to share. And I was overthinking it and then God was like, look, just give them what you know. And this is what I know. This is
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The information that I provided to you all is what I know, is what I’ve been semi successful in. And then with building these relationships, I’ve also built relationships with outside other external partners that have introduced me to HBCUs and HBCCs.
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So you can utilize that tool as well. I can bring the HBCUs to you Just welcome me in and vice versa. So this is my contact information.
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I love and appreciate all of you guys. Again, thank you, Nada, for this opportunity. I will be presenting at this year’s Not Out Conference.
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And I hope to see you there in Virginia. With that being said, my name is Joy Jamerson, program manager here at HCAP and a proud graduate of an HBCU Thank you all for attending this 30 minutes of excellence on partnering with HBCUs and HBCCs.
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Until May.
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That was great.
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You did wonderful. R.
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Thank you. I was nervous, but thank you. Thank you so much. I hope I didn’t go too fast. I was looking at the time.
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And I was hoping I didn’t go too fast. I wanted to make sure I give a lot of information so yeah
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I think it worked out perfectly. There was plenty of time for questions at the end and everybody got to ask what they wanted and it was it was great.
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Thank you. Are you going to be at the conference?
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All right. Well. I’m not going to be. I’m staying back.
