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National Field Research, Demonstration Site and Training Center For the business and workforce strategy of Plan Mayachen to fully benefit LEP community members, especially women, there must be an integrated infrastructure created to support its community economic and workforce development goals. The anchor of CDBSE as a learning and teaching center, not only for the El Paso area, but nationally and internationally, is the Media Center, as a vehicle for creating long-distance international earning/teaching opportunities as well as economic and cultural exchanges.
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With the technology of the Media Center as the basis for national/international exchanges, CBDSE will serve as a field research site and training college, for developing and demonstrating best practices linking Limited English Proficient community members, especially women, to community economic development. To do so, CBDSE will have the following programs: |
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| • Workers Preparedness Center to develop and demonstrate strategies for orienting and preparing workers to gain the skills, knowledge and experience necessary to successfully take advantage of employment and educational opportunities. • Bilingual Development Innovation Center to develop and demonstrate strategies in labor market analysis, curriculum development, professional development of trainers, teaching methodologies, information management, assessment and evaluation systems appropriate to assist Limited English • Proficient community members, especially women, to build their skills through work-centered vocational training programs that also integrate learning in language, literacy, basic skills, technology, leadership and entrepreneurialism • Social Enterprise Innovation Center, to develop and demonstrate the strategies, systems and resources needed to assist women to establish, operate and grow social purpose businesses and micro-enterprises, as market-based strategies for achieving economic justice • Women’s Institute, to develop and demonstrate the strategies and resources needed to help build the capacity and experience of Mexican immigrant women in the diverse skills and critical analysis they need to engage in the community-building process |
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As a result, CBDSE is keyed to developing the infrastructure that responds to the increasing labor market demand, with globalization, for a more fully bilingual and literate workforce with both job-specific and transferable skills. Furthermore, it is an approach to adult bilingual workforce education and training that makes it an integral part of a much more comprehensive, sectoral analysis of and intervention in the local economy—one that addresses the profound, structural changes taking place with globalization. |
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