HRTP Promising Practice 1: Industry-Led Problem Solving
First in the series: Promising Practices Illustrating the Four Essential Elements of High Road Training Partnerships.
The Labor Center’s High-Road Training Partnerships Project supports the California Workforce Development Board’s HRTP Initiative in modeling and expanding workforce training partnerships that are worker-centered, industry-led and aligned with key policy goals of equity, job-quality, and sustainability. The Labor Center conducts analysis and provides technical assistance to sustain and grow the reach of these high-road partnerships. We develop resources and training to build an infrastructure based on the collective expertise of practitioners so that workers, employers, and communities can build high-road partnerships in more industries and across sectors and regions.
Learn more about the state’s High Road Training Partnership initiative here.
First in the series: Promising Practices Illustrating the Four Essential Elements of High Road Training Partnerships.
Second in the series: Promising Practices Illustrating the Four Essential Elements of High Road Training Partnerships.
Third in the series: Promising Practices Illustrating the Four Essential Elements of High Road Training Partnerships.
Fourth in the series: Promising Practices Illustrating the Four Essential Elements of High Road Training Partnerships.
First in the series: Four Essential Elements of High Road Training Partnerships. This brief focuses on the essential element of having the industry lead the problem solving for the workforce demands unique to that industry. It describes what is meant by being industry led, why this is essential, and what the critical components of operating in this manner are.
Second in the series: Four Essential Elements of High Road Training Partnerships. This brief focuses on the essential element of making the partnership itself a priority. It describes why this is essential, what is meant by partnership, and what the critical components of operating in partnership are. A separate companion brief provides more detail on promising practices for this essential element, with examples from the field.
Third in the series: Four Essential Elements of High Road Training Partnerships. HRTPs are most successful when they bring worker voice into their strategies as a core value to support the partnership. This means workers or their representatives are involved in the full spectrum of partnership activities.
Fourth in the series: Four Essential Elements of High Road Training Partnerships. This brief focuses on the essential element of having the industry partnership drive the training solutions needed for that industry. It describes why this is essential, what is meant by taking an industry driven approach to training solutions, and what the critical components of doing so are.
As California plans and invests for the future, all efforts should build and sustain a dynamic and globally successful economy that offers all—including the most disadvantaged—a higher quality of life. We can do that in ways that simultaneously address multiple major challenges, including climate change, public health, economic resilience, and systemic inequities. High Road Training Partnerships (HRTPs) provide a proven successful model for working toward these goals.
Pamela Egan
Director, Labor-Management Partnerships Program
Laura Watson
Community of Practice Coordinator for High-Road Training Partnerships