Capital Workforce Partners

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:48):
Hello, Hello, and welcome to Pulse of the Region, the
show where we get to highlight each week the incredible
things that are happening here throughout our greater Hertford business community.
I'm Kate Balman, your host here today and we're in
the iHeartMedia Studios, which I always love to say, the
Candy Cane Building here in downtown Hartford, our capital city,
and the sun is shining. Our guests are smiling, so

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we are ready for a good show today. Today we
are getting the Pulse about three regional sector partnerships who
are strengthening our regional economy and connecting people to jobs.
We're going to be talking a lot of workforce today,
which is something I know is on the minds of many,
many people and many companies throughout our business community. So
here we have a dynamic group joining the conversation, all

(01:32):
from the organization CWP. So excited to introduce each of
our guests. So first joining me is Mohammed Chouki. He
is their senior Business Partnership Coordinator and he focuses on
their transportation, distribution and logistics sector.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
So Mohammed, welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Thank you. Kate happy to be here.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Good No, We're happy to have you. And next up
as we have Martha Lacrosse. She is their Business Partnership
Coordinator and works within the tech and the IT sector. Martha,
welcome to Pulse of the Region.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Thank you, Kate, happy to be here, fantastic.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
And last, but certainly not least, we have Maureen Janks
joining us. She is their business Partnership Coordinator and focused
within the healthcare industry. So Maureene, welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Thank you, Kate. I'm so excited to be here today.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yes, no, we're thrilled to have you and I'll tee
off too. It's you know, we're thrilled as the Metrohartford
Alliance Connecticut Health Council is we get to work with
Maureene all the time on our regional sector partnership so
which we'll talk more about today, but truly appreciate working
with you and you know all that you're doing within
that sector with the Health Counsel.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Great, thanks Kate, of course.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
So first things first, we'd love to kind of kick
off with some introductions if you guys are all on
board for that, and so Mohammeduina, I'll put you on
the hot seat if you don't mind giving an overview
and kind of probably for some of reintroduction to CWP.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Absolutely so. Capital Workforce Sputners is the North Central Workforce
Development Board. We serve thirty seven towns and this North
Central region of the States, meeting Hartford and thirty six
towns around it all the way north border way in Massachusetts.
And our mission is to leverage public and private resources

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to help both the business community and have a skilled
workforce for the regional economy. We accomplished this mission by
partnering with businesses job seekers in the region, but also
other partners like the community college system and the Chambers

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of Commerce and have you. From that sense, but also
by overseeing the American Job Centers. And this is the
one stop where job seekers and businesses could meet to
meet one another and to have that skilled workforce that
they're aiming for. Basic this is crucial to the sector partnership.

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This is why we're having this conversation today, and bringing
those two entities together, job seekers and businesses is critical
to the economy of the region, and that's what we're
doing at Capital Workforce Partners.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Definitely, I think so key and you've seen a lot
of successes and I think also a lot of great opportunity.
They're that connection between the business community and others. So,
and now kind of if you could talk a little
bit is your focus on which I learned TDL so transportation,
distribution and logistics. If you could talk just a little
bit about the work that you're doing there, certainly.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
So first of all, what is the regional sextor partnership, right,
and this is this is a table of industry leaders
from the same industry coming together to address the common
challenges that they see with each other. And it's we
always joke about it. It's like the first meeting when
you are convenient and sector partnership is a little awkward because.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
You have marines like shaking your head here, yes.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Because you're bringing competitors to the same table, right, And
the reaction is like, Mohammad, what are you doing to me?

Speaker 3 (04:48):
But you know they were here at the.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
But it's good to send that message that these business
leaders they are just like us. Let's disconnect them from
the brand there they represents. This connect them from the
entity they're coming from. But they are They live in
our communities. These leaders, they their kids play soccer with
our kids. They shop in the same source. So there
are people and they care about the communities in which

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they operate and have business. And that's the whole message
behind it, is that if we are not coming to
address these challenges that we are facing in our industry together.
Nobody's going to do it for us. So it's good
to have that voice of the business leaders about the
changes they want to see, especially related to the talents
in our region. And see, we are obviously past that

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awkward stage I referred to a minute ago, and it's
good to see that developed to a strong, well knit
partnership of businesses who get it, who get it, and
they love their communities. They want to see Connecticut thrive.
They want to see the region thrive. And we often
say our motto at the Transportation Distribution Religioustic Secutor Partnership

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is high tide raises all ships, everyone wins.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
So true, very true, and so certainly kind of one
of the RSPs focused there. And then Maureen, the healthcare partnership,
if you could talk a little bit about that sector
of work.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Sure.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
Yeah. So the partnership we kicked off really around December
of twenty twenty two is sort of a revamp of
a partnership that have been in place before and since
that time. You know, my role really is focusing on
convening this partnership and sort of keeping the engagement going.
That's what I spend most of my days doing so
right now, you know, this partnership is supported by twenty
five amazing healthcare organizations and twenty four of our public partners.

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So as Mohammad had said, you know our community colleges,
you know, our state associations, et cetera. And so we
gather on a quarterly basis to as Mohammed said again,
you know, really talk about the challenges that the industry
faces and for healthcare, and it's probably similar across the
board with industries. Is you know, one of our major
focuses is on the workforce, right, and so in workforce

(07:02):
shortages and so you know, we're really we have a
mission in our partnership, and it's really around increasing the
stability of healthcare as an industry as a major economic
driver within the community, because because it really is right
and so and to be collaborative as we meet challenges
and strategies around those challenges. Okay, So yeah, so our

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challenge is really within the healthcare industry specifically, it is
really around, as I said, the workforce shortages, and you know,
we have to talk about the stale reimbursement rates and
how that sort of impacts the workforce as a whole,
and the organizations around being able to keep their services
going and be creative around recruitment and retention strategies. And
then another thing is really the lack of knowledge regarding

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healthcare pathways. So you think of healthcare as like, oh,
I can be a nurse or I can be a doctor,
But there are thousands of opportunities in the healthcare industry
for career pathways. So we're really working hard together to
elevate that. And then last, I'll say, which is so
important and it's probably the preface to all of this,
is really the healthcare industry and how it's seen as

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an unsexy sort of industry, right and especially post COVID,
because you know, there was so much on the news
about healthcare and you know, people are saying, oh my goodness,
I do not want to go into healthcare. Look what happens,
you know, So really elevating healthcare as a great career choice.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Definitely know and we'll certainly circle back on a couple
of those those points. But first things first, I do
want Martha to bring you into the conversation here as well,
so you know, we've kind of hit on the transportation
distribution logistics, healthcare, and Martha, your work's really focus on
tech and IT and if you could talk a little
bit about that sector work.

Speaker 6 (08:41):
Sure, yeah. And I won't repeat some of the great
things that Maureene and Mohammad said about the structure of
the regional sector partnership because in the tech industry it's
pretty similar. But here in the Hartford region, you know,
we've got a real mix of interesting tech companies. So
we've got some of the larger tech companies in the
world that have their US headquarters here in Hartford. But

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then equally, we've got some very small, niche focused IT companies,
and so there's a real mixed bag of tech specific
companies in Hartford.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
And you know, we like to say that we're all
kind of working together to develop the talent pipeline that
drives this region's tech businesses and the tech economy. But
we also have to remember that every company is a
tech company. So we did a very interesting skills gap
analysis that was carried out by the Business Higher Ed

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Forum to look at who are the biggest tech employers,
and you know, surprise, surprise, it's not just the tech companies,
it's the insurance companies it's the healthcare companies, it's the
manufacturing companies, it's ever source. So tech employment is across
the board. The need to have a real strong, thriving,

(10:01):
resilient tech workforce is critical not just to the tech
companies but to the to all companies in this region.
And so that's what we focus on in our tech
partnership is you know, working together to U to ensure
that there is that resilient pipeline because technology is changing
all of the time, and so the employer needs for

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changing all the time, and so who's providing that. How
are we making sure that the tech education and training
providers in the universities, et cetera are are producing talent
that can that can be employed right away. And so
you know, this is also a situation as Mohammad mentioned,
we've got uh competitors all sitting around the room. But

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we also use that rising type lifts all both uh
uh phrase in our partnership because they really anything that
benefits the tech workforce benefits to tech companies, but also
have just been as the region's economy.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Okay, perfect, it's I don't know if everyone would love
to have everyone chime in a little bit too. And
just a little bit on who's kind of sitting around
the table where you've kind of touched on.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
But I think you know, part.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Of today too is there's the ability and the opportunity
for more businesses and more partners to get involved in
these regional sector partnerships. So, you know, Muhammad, I'll start
with you a little bit if you could talk just
a little bit, but again kind of who's who are
those potential competitors or you know now now friends who
are sitting around the table.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yeah, So we started the soft Lunge during COVID November
twenty twenty one, So we are in our third year
with the month of November, and how did it start.
It's based on research obviously, the transportation distribution logistics. I know,
Connecticut is famous for manufacturing for healthcare right team that's
an insurance and it's great, but also the numbers show

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that transportation distribution logistics is really the backbone of what
keeps us moving forward, right, And it was almost like
an expected industry and I don't want to say the
word people took it for granted, but maybe we did
a little bit until we saw the shelves getting empty
during COVID.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Right, it was very eye opening.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
It was, but it really is too bad. There was
one company that took the motto of like America runs
on such such right, But really TDL is really what
keeps us connected. And often people make the connection when
they hear transportation distribution logistics, they think trucking, but it's
really aviation, it's maritimes, it's a lot, it's the maybe

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drones in the near future, and it's a fast change
in industry, and it's stigmatized. We dealt with the challenges
of how people view the transportation distribution logistics. They didn't
see it as an attractive field. People don't plan to
be in the transportation distribution logistics. Maybe it's like a
safety net kind of a job, but it's not. It's

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really a job that has a lot of growth. And
Martha mentioned it. It's it's it is going to be
probably in the heart of it. It's going to be
the sun in our galaxy of industries. Right, So we
will we will have that in every industry, probably more
of it, and we want to see all employer size

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at the table. You're going to have large sized employers,
medium sized employers, minority owned businesses at the table. And
it's critical because this invites everyone to have a voice
at this table. It's not guided by the large companies
to say this is what we need and this is
how it's going to be. But it's going to be

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very open to all companies and their needs, especially the
common challenges want. And we did that exercise in the
beginning by you know, telling everyone what do you think
the biggest challenge is? And they wrote that on the
post it note and put it on the board. And
we knew that they were going to have the same answers,
but really hoping, yeah, exactly, but we wanted them to

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see it, yeah, that hey, this is what unites us.
Let's address it and let's start making some progress towards
achieving those goals. So it's a journey. It's not like
we addressed one challenges but he goes home. There's always
going to be challenges. There's only going to be issues
and problems to solve in every industry, I feel like.

(14:23):
And the goal is to continue, keep it up with
the momentum, grow into partnership definitely.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
And you know, you kind of mentioned some challenges and
more and you touched on you know, that the healthcare
sector is certainly experiencing some challenges and you've done some
unique items and unique things in order to help kind
of find some solutions there.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
If you could touch on that a little bit. Sure.

Speaker 5 (14:42):
Yeah, So the ACT I think I could speak for
all the partnerships that the work is driven through action teams.
And so the Healthcare Partnership has two action teams right now.
One is on policy, focus on policy, and the other
one is it's actually called build building the healthcare workforce tomorrow.
So kind that kind of says it all right there, right,

(15:03):
But the policy team really did come together focus on
reimbursement and you know, there's a lot that can be
said about that and you know, not being enough and
why that is, and you know, and at first it
kind of started as like, you know, kind of going
back and forth and blame and that sort of thing,
but what we really ended up doing was turning it
back and focusing it on the workforce and what is

(15:24):
the impact that you know, this sort of stale reimbursement
environment in healthcare has on the workforce. And again, as
I mentioned, you know, creativity around retention and recruitment, and
so we really wanted to focus on that, and we
ended up having a legislative breakfast last year sometime to
really begin the conversation with legislators. I mean, and we
know that all of these organizations have point people in

(15:44):
legislation that they talked to constantly and have visited their organizations,
but we wanted to sort of raise that voice a
little bit more, and so we ended up getting policy
teams from the other healthcare regional sector partnerships involved to
elevate it a bit more, get more voices out there,
and now where we're working on a sort of a
white paper, we've actually submitted it already to the Office
of Workforce Strategy to bring that to the table in

(16:07):
the next legislative session. So there's some really points around
like this is what happens when our reimbursement is such,
you know, we can't pay livable wages. We're ended up
closing up services because we don't have enough money just
maintaining building something simple like that, right, So really getting
it out there and not just saying like you're not
giving us enough money, but here's what the impact is
because of that, and then to really expand that to

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talk about how it impacts the economy of the region, right,
And so that's the focus on the policy team building
the workforce of tomorrow, healthcare work force tomorrow. We just
did an on conference just at the end of October
and it really turned out to be quite an amazing event.
Our goal was to open up a really frank conversation

(16:51):
about healthcare as a career choice and an industry. So
coming to the table where healthcare leaders, healthcare students, healthcare educators,
and those who were seeking to go into healthcare as
a career and talked about you know, what have you
heard about healthcare like you want to go into healthcare,
what are the things that you've heard?

Speaker 4 (17:10):
You know?

Speaker 5 (17:10):
Leaders, how are you helping your workforce with retention? You know,
what kind of resources are you giving them for a
good life work balance, things like that. We had a
panel discussion, but we also involved the audience with Mentometer,
this interactive app to to really have it be a
conversation and so it really we had a great turnout,
great event, and so now the hard work begins because

(17:32):
there were takeaways from that. So now we have to
figure out, Okay, what are we going to do now
Because it wasn't just a one and done. We want
to carry this work forward over the next year. So
one of our first steps is we were enlightened listening
to high school students speak. They finally warmed up, they
became unshy and started to talk about like, why are
we kind of focus on this this age group, you know,

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to say, you know, you don't do this, you're looking
at your phone, you can't be responsible.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Things like that. They spoke up about all this.

Speaker 5 (18:00):
Yeah, our next step is to really get to them
and say, Okay, tell us more, tell us, tell us
more about that, because we're building the workforce for tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
And I want to ask, was there one kind of
piece of feedback from that aage group that really stood.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Out to you?

Speaker 5 (18:13):
Well, one of the things you know, as in workforce
and we heard you know, we'll maybe hear a little
bit from Martha and I'm not sure if this happens
in TDL, but really looking at internships and shadowing opportunities,
and that's huge because you want to know what you're
getting into. And maybe and I don't want to say
especially in healthcare, but in healthcare you kind of want
to do and so, but their students aren't giving those
opportunities because one of the big things is HIPPA. You know,

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of course we want to respect our patient's personal information
and all of that. But they came out and said, like,
look at we're responsible. We know. All you have to
do is tell us about HIPPA, tell us what we
can and cannot do, and we get it.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
We can do it. Let us come into.

Speaker 5 (18:51):
Your organizations and see what being in healthcare is all about.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
So such great feedback, and you know, so thank you
for sharing that. And Martha would love to hear from
you a bit more on you know, really kind of
what are some of the challenges that you've been really
focusing on and you know within your sector.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (19:08):
Great, So I think the biggest challenge that that that
I realized was was facing the tech industry when I
when I joined this work, was this kind of disnet
between you know, we always talk about the plumbing. So
you've got lots of talented people out there and connecting

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them into the tech industry. So if you have a
bachelor's degree, it's it's certainly easier. But if for all
of these talented individuals that don't necessarily have a bachelor's degree,
getting that first job is uh is difficult. So this
is one of the very first issues we started working

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on as an action team was sort of an apprenticeship
slash paid work experienced action team. Okay, and so a
great thing that has been done and that has been
evolving in the Connecticut area is more of a focus
on skills based hiring, so not necessarily with computer science degrees.

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So there are plenty companies that see real value in
hiring people that don't have a bachelor's degree then must
just have a high school degree. But with the right training,
with the right shadowing, with the right work experience, they
can really be very, very highly valuable contributing individuals in major,

(20:38):
major companies. And these are global companies that I'm talking about,
so they're seeing this as a real pathway. Of course
that is great for economic development and for community development too.
And so we have been working very hard and successfully
on developing paid work experiences, sharing best practices about paid
work experiences. One of the things that we did was

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a series of webinars called around called Navigating the Paper Ceiling.
So the paper ceiling representing barriers including a bachelor's degree,
So what are those and these are barriers to, you know,
separate people from their from potential employment. And so what
we did is we pulled together a bunch of businesses

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for the first webinar and talk to them about, you know,
why are companies doing this. Why are they specifically targeting
individuals who don't have bachelor's degrees and putting them into
apprenticeship programs. And there were some fantastic rationales for that.
It increases diversity, it increases the types of people that

(21:43):
are coming into our organization. We see greater levels of
retention from individuals who don't necessarily start with bachelor's degrees,
and we help them get their bachelor's degrees. So in
addition to the work experience, they're getting a bachelor's degree
as part of the deal. So we followed that up
with Okay, that sounds great employers, but let's hear it

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from the apprentices themselves. So the next the next webinar
featured some of these apprentice apprentices and they had started off,
you know, in high school and working at job at
a at a gas station or at a supermarket, and
then six months later, here they are earning phenomenal salaries
working for global companies and very very valued members of

(22:24):
the teams. So that's that's been a real sort of
focus for us and a success. I'd say. Another major
thing that we are focusing on right now, on starting
with our next quarterly meeting in December, is is generative AI.
Ok As we know, yes, everybody is talking about it.

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Everybody's talking about it. What does it mean? What does
it mean for compliance? So what does it mean for
optimization of our processes? But we're we're we really need
to have a conversation about what that means for our
workforce because we're you know, there are these reports out
there that thirty percent of the workforce, we'll see about
fifty percent of their tasks disrupted by generative AI. The

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disruptions or negative disruptions, It just depends on the role.
But how are we building, how are we skilling a
sustained pipeline of talent that this region needs to keep competitive.
And again that's not just the tech industry, but this
is something that the insurance companies are grappling with, manufacturing companies,
healthcare companies. So that is a very very exciting area

(23:28):
for us to really start digging into starting in December.
And then that's that's going to be a focus for
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Okay, trying to move it to pace of technology, that's
going to be a tough one.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah, No, definitely, and that's right.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, we'd love you, Muhammad if you could as we
look at twenty twenty five, which is crazy that you
can think we're already there, but if you could touch
a little bit on kind of what's next for TDL.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
Certainly so it will continue to be, you know, removing
the stigma from the TDL industry, growing the partnership. I
often tell employers at the table, we live within the
five hundred mile radius of the third of the US population.

(24:13):
Our goods and services. We want to make sure there's
no disruptions in the future. So we are the youngest
are formed a regional sector partnership at AWP, and it
is exciting that we are growing. But at the same time,
what I like the most is the transparency. It's a
space and probably Moreen and Martha will agree, it's a

(24:34):
space where we see, now we're not just talking about
what we're doing right in our companies, but we're talking
about what is challenging and what's not working, and collectively
working with each other. I want to see that continuing
to grow because we, as I mentioned the moments ago,
we are the youngest, so I want to grow the partnership.

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I want to make sure that more and more businesses
are whereabout we there's fourteen sector partnerships in the state
of Connecticut. There's only one Transportation Distribution Logistics sector partnerships
in Connecticut. So businesses from all across the states, sometimes
even from the neighboring states because their workforce the residents

(25:17):
work in connecticuts. So we want to make sure that
both the job seekers and the businesses are served in
this area. And this is why we have two action teams,
one in charge of the industry promotion in career awareness
and I loved how the employers came together to organize

(25:37):
the Transportation Distribution Distribution LOGISTMS tunk Twister.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
I thought it was just.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
Expawn career fair that we held it right here in
downtown Hertford where we had forty eight businesses from the
Transportation Distribution Logistics come in higher but also inform and
remove in the stigma about this industry. So it doesn't
require a lot of degrees in higher education, but there

(26:05):
are definitely jobs like that required that, but it's a
very welcoming low bar to get into of an industry.
We just want to make sure it continues to grow
and definitely using the plug on this channel right now
to invite more businesses to come into join the TDL.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Definitely, well, and that's where I'd love.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
We have a few minutes left and if we could
just touch on so sure we needed a couple hours
for this conversation, so you know, I know a lot
of questions still to be had, but do want to
just touch on you know, is really who should look
to get involved? And you know, I don't know worreen
if you could touch on that a little bit on
you know again, people are welcome at the table, but
you know, kind of you can explain a little bit further.

Speaker 5 (26:45):
Sure, any any well for healthcare, but any healthcare organization.
I mean sure, let's face it, we had to get
this partnership up off the ground back when we started, right,
so we did use some marketing strategies by getting champion
at some of our larger healthcare organizations. You know, names
that everybody recognizes home, you know, names your say around

(27:07):
your dinner table, right, so you know, we started out
that way as a way to say like, oh wow,
if so and so is champing this movement, then I
should definitely be involved, you know. But then we made
it very clear that there, as Mohammed said earlier, you know,
those larger companies are not the ones that are driving this.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
It's all of them.

Speaker 5 (27:24):
So in healthcare, we have every industry within the healthcare
industry represented, and we need more. We have everything from
you know, a que care, pediatric care, mental health, long
term care, community care, you name it, the pharmacies, insurance,
you know, and there's probably some out there that we
haven't really thought of. So it's any organization large and

(27:45):
small who wants to be a part of, you know,
elevating the voice of health care within our region. You know,
we need you there, So come join even just come
to a meeting to see what it's all about.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
It'll be great, fantastic.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
And where can people go to learn more information about
Capital Workforce partners and then also to where they could
look to get involved.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
I don't know who wants to take that one.

Speaker 5 (28:06):
Well, they can visit Capital Workforce dot org. That's our
main website, and each partnership is I think right. I
don't know about mohammeds but I know for healthcare and
I we are working on developing a robust website for
each of our industries right now, so we don't really
have that fully up and running yet, but that is
part of the work that we're doing, is that the

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partnership actually is doing as well.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Okay, so more to come. So well, thank you all
so much, and would please go ahead Mark.

Speaker 6 (28:34):
Sorry, I would just also LinkedIn. We have the Capital
Area Tech Partnership LinkedIn page. The Capital Area Tech Partnership
website under development is Capital Area Tech dot com.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Okay, fantastic, Well, thank you all so much. I really
appreciate it. And for all the details about today's show again,
you can go to Capital Workforce partners dot org, org
dot com, Kapital Workforce dot org dot org. Perfect, and
then also to Mohammed Says you can give him a
call as well.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
So yeah, that number is our main line. Okay, if
if if you are healthcare company and want to connect
with us, you can call the number that Kate will
read it minutes between the parents he's there or and
you will be routed towards the right coordinator. Maureene for healthcare,

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Martha for it and the tech sector, myself for the transportation,
distribution logistics, and that's the main line.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Fantastic, So for all the information you could call eight
six zero five two two one, so keep it nice
and easy, wonderful.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
So well, thank you.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
All so much for the conversation today. Definitely something we
will have to continue the conversation here on Pulse of
the Region.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
So for all the.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Details about today's show, you can visit pulseoftheregion dot com.
A big thank you to our show partner, Okill and
of course thanks to you for listening.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
I'm Kate Bauman.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Go out and make today a good day here in Connecticut.