Please join us as we highlight the importance of workforce
education for the future of our region and focus attention on what is working in VenturaCounty.
We invite Employers, Labor Representatives, Educators,
Public officials, Parents, Students and everyone concerned about our future
quality of life and community in VenturaCounty to attend.
Our expert panel of Workforce Education programs in VenturaCounty will address:
What
programs are doing to impact Workforce Education and address the gaps
between skills sets and employer needs now and in the future
Successes
and Challenges faced by these programs
Q&A
and opportunities to learn more and take away information about each
program
Panelists Include:
Richard Duarte, Project Coordinator,
P-16 Council of VenturaCounty-
Increasing attendance in career and technical programs and higher
education
Robert Wismann, Assistant
Principal,Regional
Occupational Program – Secondary Schools and career and
technical education
Kay Faulconer Boger, Ed.D. Dean
Business, Community, Resource & Economic Development and Off-Campus
Programs Ventura College –Workforce Education and Community
Colleges - career and workforce education opportunities available through
the Ventura County Community College District
Sharon Dwyer, Director, Resource Development, VenturaCollege
- VenturaCollege's WorkKeys Initiative and
the Center for Excellence
Hugh Ralston, President, VenturaCounty
Community Foundation - CSUCI and VCCF Partners in Nursing's
Future
Carmen Fraser, Program Developer,
Goodwill Industries – Community based non-profit approach
to Workforce Education.
Captain David Fleisch, Naval Base
Ventura County and Mike Weaver, Principal, Weaver Research &
Consulting Group,VCEDA – TRIAD
Workforce Development Committee– Technology and Workforce needs and
opportunities from NavalBaseVenturaCounty
Cheryl Moore, Executive Director Workforce
Investment Board of VenturaCounty
– Building Economic Vitality
COMPACT FOR A SUSTAINABLE VENTURA COUNTY INFORMATION (click here)
THANK YOU to everyone who attended the The Ventura County Civic Alliance Compact for a Sustainable Ventura County Compass Vision Workshop
Thursday, June 7th, 6:00 – 9:30 pm California State University Channel Island
In partnership with The Ventura Council of Governments, The Southern California Association of Governments, Fregonese Calthorpe Associates and
Solimar Research Group
Workshop and Project Description:
The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) accepted a joint proposal last year from the Ventura Council of Governments (VCOG) and the Civic Alliance to launch the first phase of a multi-year program to advance regional planning in Ventura County.
Titled the “Compact for a Sustainable Ventura County,” the project engages community members to develop a set of possible scenarios for the future of the county based on alternative land-use, housing, transportation, and economic development patterns and policies.
According to Alliance member and Compact Working Group chair Ron Bottorff,“ The Compact is a partnership involving the Alliance and local government, as well as businesses and private institutions, that seeks to build a common vision for Ventura County’s Future. The approval by SCAG of the first phase of the Compact as a 2% Strategy project moves the Alliance strongly forward in its strategic program goal of mobilizing people and civic organizations to work together across boundaries to address the many challenges related to regional growth and sustainability.”
The “Compact for a Sustainable Ventura County” proposal was previously endorsed by the Ventura County Board of Supervisors and eight cities in the county. The project strongly aligned with SCAG’s mission of strategic planning for the growth for the six-county Southern California region, said Peter Brandenburg, SCAG Senior Regional Planner.
SCAG is funding a team of consultants on the project including Fregonese Calthorpe Associates and Solimar Research Group. These consultants plan to work with the Compact to engage communities across the county in workshops to create and evaluate the scenarios and identify a “preferred regional future,” a shared vision of what Ventura County residents want the region to look like over the next several decades.
As a part of the project we conducted a countywide workshop. Participants gather in groups of 8 and use a base map of the County along with development type chips working with a forecast, to create their own ideal growth scenarios for the County. Each scenario will be recorded in GIS and used in creation of three alternative scenarios for testing.
Workshops resemble a game, using a map to represent the ‘board’ and icons representing development as the game pieces. These workshops focus on the land use and transportation interactions of the entire county.
The consultant team will use the maps resulting from the public workshop, and mapping of opportunity sites, to begin identifying common themes and directions for Ventura County. These themes will be combined to form alternative scenarios for accommodating the expected change in population and employment as well as the values represented by the guiding principles of the Compact.
Ventura County Civic Alliance and League of Women Voters co-host public forum Forum to discuss
S. Paula ballot issue
Measure would allow building in Adams Canyon
click here
1317 Del Norte Road, Suite 150, Camarillo, CA 93010
805-988-0196 Ext. 130 • civicalliance@vccf.org
