Greater Cleveland Career Consortium

We still need 50 more mentors to reach our goal! Will you be one of them? Click here to learn more and apply: www.true2umentor.org

September 15 - October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month! This month, we celebrate the contributions of Latinx and Hispanic communities. GCCC thanks our Latinx/Hispanic partners for the work they do to offer opportunities to students, and the hundreds of Latinx/Hispanic students participating in PACE each year for their current and future impact to Greater Cleveland, America, and beyond! #GCCC #CollectivelyWeWill #Cleveland

You're in luck! Our application deadline has been extended. There's still time to join us as a volunteer mentor for the 2024 - 2025 school year! Click here to apply: https://lnkd.in/e49FbZ_X

Thank you to the 337+ volunteers who helped make PACE possible in the 2023-24 school year! We appreciate your passion and dedication to help our students through their career readiness journeys. Looking forward to a great year ahead! Want to get involved? Reach out to our nonprofit partners directly or visit https://lnkd.in/gsbDXFs2 #volunteers #thankyou #GCCC #CollectivelyWeWill #Cleveland

GCCC's strategic priority 2, goal 1 focuses on using data to continuously learn, adapt, and improve our practices. The strategies under this goal will help GCCC be responsive to input in real time, improving how students and partners work, while progressing toward the overall vision for GCCC long term. To learn more about this goal and its strategies, visit this link:https://ow.ly/LpAy50TksYV to read our Collective Action Plan! #GCCC #CollectivelyWeWill #Cleveland

Do you remember being in 8th grade? Did you know who you were and what you wanted to be when you grew up? Did you get help and guidance along the way? Now's your chance to help today's middle schoolers explore their true selves and prepare for high school and beyond! True2U Mentoring Program is seeking passionate & dedicated volunteer mentors to guide Cleveland Metropolitan School District 8th graders in their early career readiness journeys! To learn more visit https://true2umentor.org. Questions? Reach out to [email protected] #GCCC #CollectivelyWeWill #Cleveland #True2U

Strategic priority 1's second goal centers our work-based learning opportunities for students. PACE is designed to offer students many chances each school year to engage with employers in experiences that excite them and expose them to new opportunities. These work- and career-based learning experiences can include apprenticeships, internships, job shadowing, summer jobs, job placements, and community service opportunities. Achieving goal 2 will require a collective reimagining of how the business, education, and non-profit sectors engage through “career education and readiness,” the development of a strategic approach to breaking down barriers, and identification of and commitment to new ways to meet everyone’s needs. To learn more about this goal and its strategies, visit (https://ow.ly/6PXq50TgqWj) to read our Collective Action Plan! #GCCC #collectivelywewill #Cleveland

The first goal in strategic priority 1 is focused on embedding PACE in-school activities and career advising into our participating school districts. School districts are students’ access point to all aspects of PACE. By the end of the 2024-2025 school year, PACE will have been implemented in 11 districts reaching nearly 40,000 students. Achieving goal 1 will require robust partnerships and seamless communication among all the organizations tasked with delivering the curriculum, providing career advising, and facilitating the work- and career-based learning experiences. To learn more about this goal and its strategies, visit (Link: https://ow.ly/QQ1G50T7NAx) to read our Collective Action Plan! #GCCC #Collectivelywewill #Cleveland

GCCC workgroups have been hard at work! This week, our Advocacy, Community Engagement, and Outcomes & Measures Workgroups held meetings to move our Common Agenda forward. Collective impact is only possible through collaboration between experts from across sectors and fields. Thank you to our partners who make it all possible! Advocacy & Communication Solutions, LLC; Neighborhood Leadership Institute; OhioMeansJobs Cleveland-Cuyahoga County; Team NEO #GCCC #Collectivelywewill #Cleveland

Over the next 3 years, GCCC's strategic framework focuses on developing our work in 3 priority areas: Implement: Rolling out PACE in-school curriculum, career advising, and work-based learning to students in grades 6-12 Improve: Using quantitative data and community feedback to enhance GCCC's work and impact Influence: Utilizing public policy, funding, and improved messaging to drive GCCC's long-term sustainability Over the next few weeks, we will take a deep dive into the goals that fall in each of our priority areas. For more details, view the Collective Action Plan at (Link: https://ow.ly/PeI750T4774). #GCCC #Collectivelywewill #Cleveland