Clean Energy in the San Joaquin Valley: where are the jobs?
This event has been postponed to December 14th. Same time, same place. For more information contact Courtney Kalashian @ (877) 748-0841 or ckalashian@pesc.com
I may have mentioned in passing our project working with community colleges in the San Joaquin Valley--heck, even Huffington Post is talking about it--but I've not taken the time to really explain what we're doing and why we're doing it. Well, my apologies and please, allow me to tell you a bit about this thing we like to call "C6".
In May 2012 the SJVCEO began a partnership with the Central California Community Colleges Committed to Change (C6) consortium under a Department of Labor grant to redesign how community college students are trained to enter the clean energy workforce. Our role is to convene educators with industry leaders to jointly design skills training based on real life needs.
Our purpose is to serve as a convener of employers, industry experts and educators to look at Alternative/Clean Energy (ACE) education in a holistic manner. For the past six months we have been meeting with employers and asking what they want in their future employees. We've meet with educators and asked what they're doing, and how they'd like to change it. We have researched existing sources of curriculum, then taken it back to the employers and educators and asked how can we make this more applicable for students in Central California.
But that wasn't enough.
Maureen, Dee and I found ourselves asking, 'where are all these newly trained students going to go?' and we didn't have a concrete answer and with that a workshop was born! (PS--you're invited!)
Our one-day
workshop will serve as a true “work” shop in which we will attempt to
geographically determine where the jobs are now, where projects are planned,
and what the actual employment opportunities are in our eight county region.
At the end of the day we want to have enough data to create an online,
interactive GIS based map that represents what, where and when clean energy
jobs are available in the San Joaquin Valley, what training and certifications
are needed at each site, and where training is available.
The ideal
attendee for the event is a person familiar with the business plans of you
organization or involved in planning and permitting for clean energy projects—where contracts will be, number of jobs,
length of contract, training and certification needed. We want to take a
broad view on clean energy: efficiency, solar, wind, water, biofuels,
weatherization, green building, and more! Please mark your calendars and join
us:
Thursday,
November 15, 2012
9:00 a.m. to
12:00 p.m.
Small Business
Development Center Regional Network in partnership with the US Small Business Administration
550 East Shaw
Avenue, Suite 100
Fresno, CA 93710-7702
Please RSVP to
ckalashian@pesc.com and please
forward this to those you think would benefit from participating.
If you have
questions or would like more information on this event please contact Courtney
Kalashian, (877) 748-0841 or ckalashian@pesc.com.
