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The Oklahoma
KeyTrain Users Group
On February 25th
and 26th more than 160 Oklahoma KeyTrain users and soon to be
users attended their choice of two sites (Tulsa or Oklahoma City) to
participate in the Fourth Annual KeyTrain Users’ Conference.
Currently,
over 180 sites in Oklahoma use the KeyTrain program and the theme of
this conference, “What We Do in Oklahoma” was designed to showcase the
ways in which various KeyTrain users positively impact the lives of
their program participants.
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Grant Funds Teaching
Workplace Skills in Tennessee High Schools
As Tennessee
continues to grow its WorkKeys-based Tennessee Career Readiness
Certificate (CRC) Program, many feel it is vital that students exiting
high school have the appropriate skills to earn a CRC to complement
their high school diploma.
In support of this model, The AT&T Foundation
recently awarded The Knoxville Area Chamber Partnership a $30,000 grant
to help support efforts to improve every Knox Country high school
student’s WorkKeys® skill levels. The grant money will be used to help
make KeyTrain® curriculum for WorkKeys skills available in Knox County
High Schools.
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North Carolina Users Meeting
A variety of speakers and topics highlighted the agenda
of the North Carolina KeyTrain Users Webinar. The webinars that are
hosted in various states are an effort to share best practices with
others.
Cathy Poole, Human Resources Specialist at
Campbell Soup shared the ongoing commitment to WorkKeys and KeyTrain.
Using WorkKeys to identify skill gaps and guide
training decisions has taken the guesswork out of the selection process
and enabled us to make more informed and reliable hiring decisions.
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WorkKeys and KeyTrain
Help Tackle Healthcare Shortage
The effort to identify individuals who would succeed in
nursing and healthcare curricula has been challenging due to the lack of
foundational skills which are necessary to succeed in core courses.
This challenge was addressed in 2005 when funding was received from the
Cameron Foundation through a proposal submitted by the Crater Regional
Partnership of Southside Virginia with the purpose of recruiting and
preparing people for health industry careers.
The initiative under the
leadership of Jean Heslin, who retired from her nursing faculty position
in 2004 after 20 years of teaching, has progressed to be a self
supporting program of the hospital.
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