Name: Worker Cooperatives & Workforce Development: A Strategic Conversation
Start: 2016-11-18T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2016-11-18T16:00:00-05:00
Location: The Joseph S. Murphy Institute

Worker Cooperatives & Workforce Development: A Strategic Conversation

Democracy at Work Institute & CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

<H5>Join us for a conversation with Adria Powell (Executive Vice President and President-elect of CHCA) and Steven Dawson (Visiting Fellow at The Pinkerton Foundation and former president of PHI), whose leadership has improved wages and working conditions for homecare workers throughout NYC and beyond.  Their successes include building the largest worker cooperative in the U.S., partnering with organized labor SEIU1199, developing a nationally recognized workforce development training program, establishing an industry policy platform and explicitly creating quality jobs.<BR><STRONG></STRONG></H5>
<H5><STRONG>For cooperative developers</STRONG><STRONG> </STRONG>committed to creating better jobs for low-skilled workers, this is an opportunity to hone your understanding of this instrumental project’s strategic approach. <STRONG> For workforce developers</STRONG> interested in learning about cooperatives, this is an opportunity to get your questions answered. <STRONG>For labor-management training funds</STRONG> interested in exploring strategies to expand markets for good jobs, come see this highlighted example.</H5>
<H5>We hope that this exchange will help cooperative developers and workforce trainers understand each other’s work, identify shared interests, and lay the foundation for joining together to improve opportunities for NYC workers.</H5>
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<H5><STRONG><STRONG>Steven L. Dawson</STRONG></STRONG> has worked in the field of low-income community and cooperative development for 40 years. For more than 20 years, Steven was founding president of PHI, the nonprofit affiliate of the 2300-employee, Bronx-based Cooperative Home Care Associates, the largest worker cooperative in the United States. PHI is recognized as fielding one of the nation’s first nonprofit “sectoral workforce strategies,” securing quality care for elders and people living with disabilities, by developing quality jobs for our nation’s 4 million direct-care workers. Since retiring from PHI, Steven was named Visiting Fellow at The Pinkerton Foundation, and has published a series of papers on workforce development. He is also a consultant on low-wage workforce issues. In October, Steven received the 2016 Kathleen Masters Leadership Award from the New York City Employment and Training Coalition.<BR><BR><STRONG></STRONG><STRONG><STRONG><STRONG>Adria Powell</STRONG></STRONG></STRONG> is Executive Vice President at Cooperative Home Care Associates.  Adria joined the cooperative in 1993 as Coordinator and then fulfilled progressively higher levels of responsibility.  Today, Adria supervises the Vice Presidents of the cooperative's three divisions: Operations, Clinical Services, and Finance. She works closely with these teams to ensure that the organization maintains the best quality of services possible, by maintaining a deep investment in the development of the direct-care workforce.  By guiding CHCA's ongoing strategic planning and compliance efforts, she helps to ensure that the company is positioned to seize opportunities and meet challenges that arise in providing home health care services in a highly dynamic environment. <BR></H5>
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<H5><STRONG>Democracy at Work Institute</STRONG> expands the promise of cooperative business ownership to communities most directly affected by social and economic inequality. The Institute is the only national organization dedicated to building the field of worker cooperative development, with a focus on scale and equity. It meets a growing need for research, coordination of existing resources, development of standards and leaders, critical discussion of models, and advocacy for worker cooperatives as a community economic development strategy.<BR><BR><STRONG>The Joseph S. Murphy Institute Center for Labor, Community and Policy Studies at the City University of New York</STRONG> serves as a resource center to labor, academic, and community leaders seeking a deeper understanding of labor and urban issues. The Center designs workforce development programs in partnership with unions and their labor-management training funds. The institute has a Bachelor’s degree in Urban and Community Studies and Master’s programs in Labor and Urban Studies. <STRONG>The Community and Worker Ownership Project</STRONG> is designing education and training programs for cooperative ownership and community engagement. <BR><STRONG><STRONG></STRONG></STRONG><BR><BR><STRONG><STRONG></STRONG></STRONG></H5>
<H3><STRONG>Please RSVP by November 11th</STRONG><BR></H3>
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