Career Connect Washington (CCW) is a statewide network of business, labor, education, and community leaders creating work-based and academic programs for young people in Washington to explore, prepare, and launch themselves into college and careers.
Every student deserves a future filled with purpose and self-sufficiency — and the support necessary to achieve it. Over the next decade, our state will generate thousands of new career opportunities to help us stay on the cutting edge of global innovation and influence. We are confident the talent to fill those opportunities is right here at home.
By seamlessly integrating education and onsite work experiences, we are cultivating a stronger workforce, improving lives, and helping build a better Washington. If you’re interested in learning more about how you can contribute, please email us at info@careerconnectwa.org.
Career Connect Washington (CCW) is a statewide network of business, labor, education, and community leaders creating work-based and academic programs for young people in Washington to explore, prepare, and launch themselves into college and careers.
Every student deserves a future filled with purpose and self-sufficiency — and the support necessary to achieve it. Over the next decade, our state will generate thousands of new career opportunities to help us stay on the cutting edge of global innovation and influence. We are confident the talent to fill those opportunities is right here at home.
By seamlessly integrating education and onsite work experiences, we are cultivating a stronger workforce, improving lives, and helping build a better Washington. If you’re interested in learning more about how you can contribute, please email us at info@careerconnectwa.org.
Who are CCW Partners?
Partners in the CCW network play different roles but work towards a common purpose: supporting a positive future for Washington’s young people from K-12 through early adulthood and beyond by creating and promoting career connected learning experiences.
CCW’s nine Regional Networks are convening points for employers, educators, and nonprofits to coordinate efforts. There are also CCW Career Connected Learning (CCL) Coordinators in each of the state’s nine Educational Service Districts who work in collaboration with local school districts to support career connected learning activities. Across regions, Program Builders connect education and employers to create new and scale existing career connected learning programs (often accessing CCW funding to do so). Sector Leaders engage employers and labor leaders across ten high-demand sectors to identify workforce and training needs that inform program development. Learn more about each part of our network and how your work fits in.
Leadership
Executive Leader
Strategy & Project Management
Stephenie Barr-Hughes
CCW Partner Support
Washington STEM (Regional Networks & Program Builder support)
Kinetic West (Sector Leader support)
Data & Learning and Equity
Stakeholder Groups
Below are just some of the organizations who contributed to the planning process.
Aerospace Futures Alliance
Alaska Airlines
Amazon
America Achieves
American Federation of Teachers
Associated General Contractors of Washington
Association of Washington Business
Avista
Ballmer Group
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Boeing
Council of Presidents
Independent Colleges of Washington
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
International Brotherhood of Machinists 751
The James and Judith K. Dimon Foundation
Jobs for the Future
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Kaiser Permanente
Lakeside Industries
Life Science Washington
Matson Fruit
MacDonald-Miller
Microsoft
Microsoft Philanthropies
New America
Northwest Workforce Council
Pacific Northwest Ironworkers 86
Pierce Co Building and Construction Trades
Professional Educators Standards Board
Results Washington
Saltchuk
SEH America Inc
Siemens Foundation
Service Employees International Union 1199NW
Snohomish STEM
United Food and Commercial Workers 21
Washington Apprenticeship Council
Washington Building Trades
Washington Education Association
Washington Roundtable (Partnership for Learning)
Washington School Counselor Association
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
Washington State Board of Education
Washington State Building and Construction Trades Council
Washington State Commission on Hispanic Affairs
Washington State Department of Labor & Industries
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Washington State Employment Security Department
Washington State Hospital Association
Washington State Labor Council
Washington State Opportunity Scholarship
Washington State Rehabilitation Council
Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Washington State Tree Fruit Association
Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board
Washington STEM
Washington Student Achievement Council
Washington Technology Industry Association
West Sound STEM
Workforce Snohomish