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Report on Government-Business Partnership Highlights Career Ladder Initiative
May 24, 2006
A new report on partnerships between business and industry that allow low-wage workers to obtain new job skills highlights a career ladder initiative for direct-care workers as a successful example.
Such partnerships are a 'promising' way for state and local governments to help low-wage workers advance - and to help business create and keep good jobs - according to Wising Up: How Government Can Partner With Business to Increase Skills and Advance Low-Wage Workers. The 52-page report, which was produced by the Center for Law and Social Policy, identifies the three most common models:
- Incumbent worker and customized training programs;
- Career ladders or pathways; and
- State skills certificates and panels.
It also examines initiatives - including Massachusetts' Extended Care Career Ladders Initiative - that illustrate the potential of these models and recommends ways of forming effective partnerships.
Elise Nakhnikian
Communications Specialist
Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute
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