1. What the US Mainland Can Learn
From a Small Island in the South
Pacific: American Samoa's NEG
Experience
December 28, 2012
Evelyn Vaitautolu-Langford, American
Samoa DHR
Vinz Koller & Kristin Wolff, SPR
2. Participant Poll #1
“I have traveled…”
- South of the equator
- To the South Pacific
- To American Samoa
- To the island of Ofu
3. Participant Poll #2
“My community has managed…”
- A National Emergency Grant
(NEG) - An NEG Disaster Grant
- Neither of these
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9. Key Points
1. Community & employer
engagement in OJT/WE
Programs
2. “Training” as a skill- and market-
building strategy
3. Building skills that create choices
4. Regionalism
5. Why this approach to program
review?
10. le mafuli a puou
Like an uprooted puou, it will not die but grow again
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17. Let’s share…
Q1: What’s one
idea, image, phrase or fact
surprised you as you
watched the video or
listened to Evelyn?
18. Let’s share…
Q2: What’s one idea for
changing something in your
own program or organization
inspired by what you learned
today?
19. Let’s share…
Q3: Based on what you’ve
heard today, what do you
think are the key lessons
American Samoa’s
experience offers the
workforce system on the
mainland?
24. Questions?
Vinz Koller - Vinz_Koller@spra.com
831-277-4726
Kristin Wolff - kwolff@thinkers-and-doers.com
503-888-1022
Social Policy Research Associates (spra.com)
25. Observations
• Embrace Broader Workforce
Agenda
• Engage extended family &
social network (on and off-
island)
• Employ technology
strategically
26. Observations
• Embrace Broader Workforce
Agenda
• Engage extended family &
social network (on and off-
island)
• Employ technology
strategically
Hinweis der Redaktion
Vinz can walk people through the website.Vinz – let them know that report and video will be loaded in next couple weeks and we will send links to everyone who registered for webinar._____________________________
Storygatherer videos________________________
Resources and source documents.______________________________
Contact from website should go to Tau and Lika on the website, but keep Vinz & Kristin here.__________________________
Embrace the broader workforce agenda that has evolved since the launch of the NEG.Four dimensions:Deepening and strengthening formal and informal relationships with territorial and federal agencies on- and off-island.Collaborating with government and private-sector partners throughout the pacific region. Advancing innovation (including social enterprise), while effectively managing risk. Shift away from “program” as the heart of workforce development and toward the idea that workforce development is about a set of people management and development practices that can be adopted in any workplace2. Engage the extended family (‘aiga’) network. Reinforce and continue to explore opportunities for off-island education, training, development for residents of American Samoa, while also seeking opportunities for US mainland residents or those from the Pacific region (Samoans and others) to learn and work in American Samoa, and reaching out to those who have returned home from military service, education, or off-island careers in particular. The networks are as important and skills and work experience in job-finding and career-making._________________________
3. Employ technology strategically to advance the broader workforce agenda, and cultivate more and more diverse training and job opportunities for American Samoans of all ages. Four dimensions:Online education, learning, trainingNon-traditional employment (contract, online, self-employment, etc.)Improved workforce dataSocial mediaVinz and Kristin handle chat.____________________