Via integrated education and workforce strategies, CAEL fosters partnership development that aligns postsecondary institutions and other learning providers, employers, and workforce and economic development organizations to better connect adult learners to careers and promote social and economic mobility. By bringing together the right stakeholders across the workforce ecosystem, we help build partnerships that promote adult learner success, minimize unemployment, and create competitive communities that attract local and regional employers.
Workforce & Economic Development
Connecting marginalized communities to better education and career opportunities
HOW CAEL CAN HELP

Improve social mobility and equity
Increase access to postsecondary education with clear links to rewarding careers within growth industries

Support economic prosperity
Favorably position cities, states, and regions to attract and support businesses that provide the gainful employment and economic activity that sustain community prosperity

Create effective education-employer partnerships
Bolster the effectiveness of regional employers and postsecondary institutions by forging partnerships among them
SPECIAL RESEARCH BRIEF: Collaborating for Impact
Find out how five workforce development boards have creatively met their region’s workforce needs despite a changing labor market, a global pandemic, and an economic shutdown.

Initiative Support and Technical Assistance
- Improving the social and economic mobility of adult learners (including veterans)
- Strategic partnership development
- Data gathering and analysis, strategy development, goal setting, and tracking
- Accelerate credential completion by recognizing on-the-job and other non-institutional training and by incorporating stackable credentials
Uplifting Through Upskilling
Learn how one Texas community focused on upskilling and reskilling existing and new learners to help the regional economy recover.

Platforms & Tools
- Statewide/systemwide Work Learn Earn
- Growing an economy requires a focus on employer needs and upskilling job seekers. With 40+ years of experience in career exploration services, CAEL created our Work Learn Earn® solution to help develop a healthy workforce talent pipeline and connections to employers with open positions.
The Virtuous Cycle of Work Learn Earn
Bringing together industry, workforce organizations, postsecondary institutions, and job seekers can solidify pathways to sustainable employment and regional economic growth.

Membership & Events
- Annual CAEL conference and events
- Professional development and training
- CAEL membership - join today!
Linking Public Workforce Systems and Community Colleges through PLA
Read about CAEL’s pilot project to create stronger connections between workforce development systems and community colleges by developing cross-system Prior Learning Assessment strategies.

More from CAEL

Work Learn Earn
An online career exploration tool that empowers job seekers to discover career and educational pathways within your community.
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Membership
Become a CAEL member and build a transformative culture of lifelong learning and economic empowerment for all adult learners.
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If your institution or organization is seeking guidance, solutions, and support from CAEL, or if you have an idea for a future collaboration initiative with CAEL, please reach out. We'd love to connect.
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