Career Pathways and Contextualized Learning in Workforce Development and Lifelong Learning Product Catalog

The following document catalogs the curricular resources and supporting documents developed by the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) through a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) Round 4 grant awarded by the U.S Department of Labor. The grant was awarded to the Workforce Development and Lifelong Learning (WDLL) Division of the university’s Community College. While WDLL is a component of the main university, it operates under an independent budget; manages its own programming; and has dedicated leadership in the form of a Dean and Associate Dean. WDLL’s mission is: “To reduce unemployment and underemployment in the District of Columbia by enhancing the skills of its residents.” Programming funded through this grant focused on fulfilling that mission statement. For this grant, UDC focused its attention on high-growth entry and mid-skill occupations in the Healthcare and Hospitality sectors that will help students and workers prepare for a wide range of occupations in these industries. In addition to developing learning resources in an array of Healthcare and Hospitality occupations, the college also produced numerous program support materials for both sectors. These include outreach materials, reports, and other resources that focus on the attainment of critical skills that foster employability across all occupations. All products included in this catalog were developed by UDC. These resources were produced with federal grant funds and reviewed for content, overall quality and completeness by the college’s review board, subject matter experts and by the college’s Third-Party Review contractor, PPM Associates. Proprietary resources licensed to UDC through industry associations and commercial vendors have been clearly identified as such along with URL links that direct the reader to each source to request permission to utilize such materials for their own purposes. The catalog is organized by economic sector with the associated products presented below. Each entry includes the product title, a brief description of the contents and a URL link or links to the location of the resources on the U.S. Department of Labor’s SkillsCommons Web site.