Shared Lane Consulting Services
Project Title
As a final project support grant to provide Digital Careers tools and resources to educators, students, and families that allow for guidance on how to navigate postsecondary training pathways
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Shared Lane Consulting Services was founded in 2021 with a mission to promote diversity and equity of access to digitally enabled careers. Its work supports schools and organizations developing youth career pathways by building curriculum and teacher training around IT career opportunities within the high-demand tech-enabled economic sectors. With Corporation support, Shared Lane developed the Technology Career Exploration Program (TCEP) that prepares motivated adults who are unemployed or underemployed for successful careers as tech professionals and creates onramps for businesses that need their talents. Funding also allowed Shared Lane to develop a product roadmap creating free digital tools that support educators and high school learners. The web-based toolkits, “Digital Career Toolkit” and “Forging Allied Healthcare Careers,” are unique in that they are student-facing while including robust facilitator guides for educators. To date, over 6,000 users have availed themselves of these resources. Continued general operating support will allow Shared Lane to scale its Expanding Pathways Collaborative, designed to bring together front-line staff from workforce training providers against a range of sections, and high school and intermediary representatives. Shared Lane will also promote its “Workforce Gateway Internships” (WGI), a pre-admission opportunity for high school seniors. This work includes facilitating a 30-hour micro-internship in which participants attend abridged training at a workforce site and participate in a mock admissions interview.
Project Title
For project support for aligning high school, workforce training & the labor market
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
Shared Lane Consulting Services was founded in 2021 with a mission to promote diversity and equity of access to digitally enabled careers. Its work supports schools and organizations developing youth career pathways by building curriculum and teacher training around IT career opportunities within the high-demand tech-enabled economic sectors. Shared Lane continues to build the Technology Career Exploration Program (TCEP) that prepares motivated and curious adults who are unemployed or underemployed for successful careers as tech professionals and creates onramps for businesses that need their talents. Funding will enhance TCEP via a pilot project that removes tactical barriers high school students face when enrolling in workforce training and iterate on resources for high school counselors to assist in opening up pathways for youth who are most under-represented in high-demand careers.
Project Title
For support to continue building the Technology Career Exploration Program
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Shared Lane Consulting Services was founded in 2021 with a mission to promote diversity and equity of access to digitally-enabled careers. Its work supports schools and organizations that are developing youth career pathways by building curriculum and teacher training around IT career opportunities within the high-demand tech-enabled economic sectors. In partnership with workforce training organization, Per Scholas, Shared Lane will continue building the Technology Career Exploration Program (TCEP) that prepares motivated and curious adults who are unemployed or underemployed for successful careers as tech professionals and creates onramps to businesses who need their talents. The grant will enhance TCEP by producing resources that provide exposure to a wider range of digitally enabled careers and support professional learning facilitation for school stakeholders. This innovative model is scalable and continues to deliver authentic tech and career development materials for schools, aligned to employer demand.
Project Title
For support to continue building the Technology Career Exploration Program (TCEP)
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
17 months
Description
Through rigorous and tuition-free technology training and professional development, Per Scholas prepares motivated and curious adults who are unemployed or underemployed for successful careers as tech professionals, and creates onramps to businesses who need their talents. Per Scholas recognized that young people need multiple pathways and guided onramps to careers, and that schools need a greater repertoire of resources to expose students and families to multiple postsecondary pathways. Our grant supports this vision for alignment through the pilot Technology Career Exploration Program (TCEP) which is designed to provide high school and college students opportunities for real-world and work-based learning. With the Corporation’s supportPer Scholas will continue to work withhigh schools to understand how they can foster tech talent among their students, pilot community college partnerships and begin their national expansion of a career pathways strategy. This innovative model is scalable and delivers authentic tech and career development materials for schools, aligned to employer-demand.