Objective 1: Align workforce resources and strategies across the system
Strategy 1.1: Create a public/private Funders' Collaborative to expand, pool and align resources for workforce development.
Outcome: A durable coordinating mechanism for the Tristate region that will expand, pool and align public and private resources for workforce development.
Strategy 1.2: Create and sustain a Workforce Network and Leadership Council to serve as a regional workforce development intermediary that aligns strategies and programs among key players.
Outcome: A coherent, coordinated, sustainable workforce system for the Tristate region.
Strategy 1.3: Connect the adult workforce pipelines with the student education pipelines of Strive.
Outcome: A seamless education→workforce pipeline for the region.
Objective 2: Close skill gaps in priority industries
Strategy 2.1: Make targeted investments and provide technical assistance to support the expansion of the Health Careers Collaborative to other employers in the Tristate region.
Strategy 2.2: Make targeted investments and provide technical assistance to launch two new Career Pathways in priority industries in the Tristate region.
Outcome: Prepare at least 1,500 low-skilled adults for better work and careers.
Outcome: Improve at least 30 employers’ abilities to recruit, train, retain and advance employees to mid-level skilled jobs.
Outcome: Sustained pathways, processes and funding.
Objective 3: Build the capacity of the regional workforce system
Strategy 3.1: Organize Adult Workforce Success Networks to improve and coordinate support services that help unemployed, low-skill, and hard-to-employ workers prepare for, enter, advance, and succeed in the labor market.
Outcome: Increased collaboration among providers; improved and coordinated service delivery; increase effectiveness and capacity of providers.
Strategy 3.2: Develop a common data collection and management system for use by workforce organizations in the system to track results and evaluate our strategies.
Outcome: Use of common performance metrics to track, analyze, and report outcomes across the system.
Objective 4: Advance a policy agenda to improve our workforce system and outcomes
Strategy 4.1: Coordinate advocacy efforts addressing system alignment and barrier reduction for low-skilled workers at three levels of systems change: (1) policies at the regional and state level; (2) local infrastructure to support workforce development; and (3) industry practices.
Outcome: Reformed policies and practices that support system alignment and reduce barriers for low-skilled workers. | 
