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Arts and Technology for Community Success: Employing Bill Strickland's Model for Economic Revitilization
Type of Presentation
Workshop (60-75 minutes)
Session Abstract
Arts and technology: Where the private and public sectors meet for workforce development, youth engagement and the rebuilding of a community poised for change.
Target Audience
Workforce Development and supporting the family that is learning to support itself is an inclusive community effort. The Buffalo Arts and Technology Center has by design been a collaboration of educators, foundations, members of the banking community, members of the business community, representatives of government agencies, job makers, job seekers, grassroots organizations and practitioners in the areas of arts and technology. The target audience for this session are those innovators who strive for efficient and useful partnerships in the community to create programs that result in micro and macro level district, city, county or regional improvement.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will have the opportunity to see how one historically fractured community has been able to bring together a multitude of representatives and resources to support a model of success first envisioned by Bill Strickland in Pittsburgh over 40 years ago. By employing the success of his model and incorporating Buffalo's unique strengths, the Buffalo Arts and Technology Center can honestly demonstrate effectiveness of partnership in an example of educational and economic sustainability. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about the barriers, expected and unexpected benefits of such partnerships.
Session Description
How many times have we heard an adult discuss how badly they need a job? How many times have we heard that the private industry cannot find enough qualified workers to fill the jobs they have? It is time that education truly acts as the bridge between those needing and those seeking; Buffalo Arts and Technology Center is doing this in a city historically plagued by poverty, in-fighting and seemingly endless roadblocks to community growth. Built with the value of collaboration at the forefront, this project is making possible a place for the job makers to identify their needs and have access to job seekers who are being trained to meet and exceed them. This informative session will allow participants the opportunity to also explore how by simultaneously working with youth, a collaboration such as this can be an effective agent of change for the individuals and community it serves.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Thursday November 7