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All three workgroups completed significant milestones during July!
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Data & Coordination – LEO awarded grants to the Center for Automotive Research and the Upjohn Institute to research and develop an EV labor market report.
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Structural Barriers – LEO issued an award to Pont Advisory to develop a Transportation Barriers Playbook.
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Training, Curriculum, & Career Readiness – The workgroup created a framework for the K-12 Manufacturing Curriculum Expansion Playbook and is now starting the drafting process.
These developments are taking the ideas and needs identified by all of you and putting pen to paper to develop actionable resources and solutions. Thank you for the ongoing and active participation that is driving these projects forward. More details on each playbook or report are included in the respective workgroup updates below.
- Data & Coordination
At the July meeting, partners from the Center for Automotive Research, the Upjohn Institute, and the Michigan Center for Data and Analytics presented the research framework for the EV labor market report the workgroup is producing. The report will include an assessment of current and historical employment and investment trends as well as projections that model potential near-term changes in the EV labor market. The report will also include qualitative analysis on skills, hiring, and investment trends based on information gathered through interviews with auto industry HR representatives and decision makers. The final report, expected in December 2025, will not only inform strategy for future EV Workforce Hub activities, but will also solidify coordination efforts across workgroups and partners.
- Structural Barriers
The Structural Barriers Workgroup kicked off a three-month project to develop a Transportation Barriers Playbook, which will be a step-by-step guide that local partners can use to launch their own transportation barrier removal program. The playbook will include case studies that feature lessons learned from active transportation barrier removal programs and will highlight best practices garnered from interviews and research with workforce, transportation, and economic development stakeholders around the state and country.
If you have research on transportation barriers or know partners that would be willing to be interviewed by the research team, please share your insights in this form. Pont Advisory is actively working on this project now and the final playbook is due to LEO by September 30.
- Training, Curriculum, & Career Readiness
July’s Training, Curriculum, & Career Readiness Workgroup meeting had a robust discussion about the framework for the K-12 Manufacturing Curriculum Expansion Playbook. The Curriculum Expansion Playbook aims to provide resources and guidance for schools to tap into local consortia and implement new manufacturing programs in high schools. Workgroup members provided valuable feedback to ensure that the content emphasizes the need for diverse stakeholder buy-in, including parents/guardians, students, educators, and local community and industry organizations. The playbook will also include resources to help ensure programs are implemented with inclusiveness in mind. This will include guidance and resources for students that may have different learning styles, skills gaps, disabilities, or be impacted by the juvenile justice system.
The workgroup is soliciting volunteers to act as first-line reviewers to provide direct feedback in the initial drafting of the Curriculum Playbook. If you are interested in contributing, please email LawrenceA9@michigan.gov.
If you are interested in joining any of the workgroups or subgroups referenced above, please contact LEO-SectorStrategies@michigan.gov.
The Community and Worker Economic Transition Office (CWETO) will soon be opening applications for the Community Growth Academy, an 18-month program that will help Michigan communities plan for long-term economic growth and prepare for future change.
Academy members will receive technical assistance designed to support communities with the tools and capacity to deploy the Community Transition Playbook and build customized economic growth and resilience strategies unique to their local needs. Selected members will have access to additional benefits, including grant funding to implement projects, peer-to-peer learning opportunities, support from state employees with resource navigation and a full-time fellow to assist with implementing the strategies designed and developed through the program.
CWETO encourages applications from community-serving organizations such as municipal governments, nonprofits, community foundations, regional planning or economic development agencies or tribal organizations representing transition-impacted communities.
Please be on the lookout for the application, opening soon!
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EV Workforce Hub Structural Barriers Workgroup meeting: August 14, 2025, at 3:30 p.m.
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EV Workforce Hub Data & Coordination Workgroup meeting: August 20, 2025, at 11 a.m.
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EV Workforce Hub Training, Curriculum & Career Readiness Workgroup meeting: August 27, 2025, at 2:30 p.m.
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All EV Workforce Hub Quarterly meeting: September 4, 2025, at 1 p.m.
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