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Southwest Alabama Workforce Development CouncilRegion 7 News
Baldwin-Choctaw-Clarke-Conecuh-Escambia-Mobile-Monroe-Washington-Wilcox
April 2017
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SAWDC Aviation Cluster Travelsto Wichita
AIDT MTC Hosts High SchoolStudents
SAWDC WoO SteeringCommittee Holds Kick Off
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SAWDC Aviation Cluster Travels to Wichita toLearn Workforce Strategies
Representatives from Airbus Final Assembly Line, VT MobileAerospace Engineering, AIDT, and the Alabama CommunityCollege System traveled to Kansas for a two-day visit withleaders from Wichita's aviation industry. Organized by SAWDCin partnership with the Workforce Alliance of South CentralKansas, both National Fund sites, the visit focused onidentifying successful practices, which could be replicatedlocally in order to prepare the region's workforce for careers inaviation. This included learning how to build effectivepartnerships between the aviation industry and local educatorsand career pathways for entry-level workers.
While in Wichita, the Region 7 delegation met with majoraviation employers, Spirit AeroSystems and Airbus, tounderstand how business leadership can improve theirworkforce and strengthen their community. The WorkforceAlliance of South Central Kansas, which served as SAWDC'shost throughout, provided an in depth view of its workassociated with PACES (Preparation for Advanced CareerEmployment System) - a strategy under the WIOA program thatworks to prepare central Kansas' manufacturing and aviationworkforce by investing in high demand skills and working withlocal employers to prepare individuals for work in manufacturingand aviation. A tour of Spirit AeroSystems operations wasincluded along with a walk-through of the Innovation Campus at
SAWDC Board of Directors
ChairmanLee Lawson
Baldwin County EconomicDevelopment Alliance
Vice ChairmanJennifer Ogle
Airbus
SecretaryCleve Poole
Pioneer Electric
TreasurerJill Stork
Alabama Power
Past ChairmanSandra Koblas
Austal USA
Ketrenia CrenshawBoise Paper
David DexterAM/NS Calvert
Bill HafnerVT MAE
Ronnie HallGeorgia Pacific
David HannanMaynard Cooper & Gale
Frank JelercicCentral Gulf
Industrial Alliance
Ray MarshBASF
Janice RehmUSA Children's & Women's
Randy RogersEvonik Industries
Lesleigh SmithPerformance Contractors
Laura ChandlerExecutive Director
Wichita State University, which serves as an example of asynergistic partnership between a public university and privatesector aviation employers. Finally, SAWDC representatives metwith Wichita Area Technical College to understand how industryand education work together to ensure that students arelearning the necessary skills to thrive on the job.
"This type of community-to-community learning is exactly whythe National Fund exists," says President and CEO of theNational Fund for Workforce Solutions, Fred Dedrick. "Citiesacross the country are facing the same skills shortages, andthey can learn from each other about the best ways to trainworkers, help individuals into middle class careers and buildmore inclusive and prosperous communities."
AIDT Maritime Training Center HostsMaritime Event for High School
Students
SAWDCCouncil Members
George AlfordWilcox County Industrial
Development
Ken BergaUTC Aerospace Systems
Pete BlackParsons & Whittemore
Mark BurgessSouth Alabama Gas
Chris ComstockOutokumpu
Ken CorleyOlin Corporation
Bob JonesUnited Bank
Emily Jones
Quincy Compressor
Charlotte KopfAssociated General Contractors
James "Tim" Martin
Creek Indian Enterprises
Jesse QuillenClarke County Economic
Development
Carol StatterInfirmary Health
Green Suttles
Mobile Gas
Christopher ValdezSegers Aero Corporation
Jill VinsonSSAB
SAWDC FY2017 Investors
The Alabama Community College System and AIDT inpartnership with SAWDC hosted a Maritime ManufacturingCareer Day at the AIDT Maritime Training Center on Tuesday,March 7th. Three hundred high school students in careertechnical programs from Mobile and Baldwin County schoolsystems as well as Satsuma and Chickasaw participated.These students interacted with industry representatives fromAustal USA, Southern Company, Ingalls Shipbuilding,Performance Contractors, Mitternight Boilerworks, WESCO, andTechnical Training Aids (TTA) and gained first-hand knowledgeof the unique opportunities available close to home. Also onhand were training providers including Coastal AlabamaCommunity College and Bishop State as well as the NationalGuard.
SAWDC WoO Steering Committee HoldsKick Off Meeting
And we're off! Planning is underway for the 8th annual SAWDCWorlds of Opportunity. The SAWDC WoO Steering Committee,led by new project managers, Karen Sock and Paige Roberts,met in March for the inaugural meeting. Carol Statter, the 2016WoO Chair, passed along her chairperson duties to SheriNaramore with Exxon Mobil and Carol Weaver with AlabamaPower - co-world leaders of the World of Energy.
If you would like to get involved whether by volunteering your
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SAWDC's Vision is to develop a comprehensive, integratedworkforce development system which creates a skilled, diverse,motivated, adaptable workforce that better meets the needs ofemployers and leads to a better quality of life for our citizens. SAWDC's Mission is to develop strategic partnerships which attract,educate and train students and workers to better meet employerneeds and foster economic growth in a global marketplace. For more information on how you can become involved with theefforts of the Southwest Alabama Workforce Development Counciland Region 7, please call 251-445-2090.
