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Clackamas workforce board, community college warn of clinical-placement and retraining gaps as AI shifts job tasks
Summary
Clackamas Workforce Partnership and Clackamas Community College told C4 members that federal WIOA-funded boards and local CTE programs are key to reskilling workers as AI alters tasks, but chronic clinical-placement shortages, faculty credentialing limits and funding gaps constrain capacity.
Brent Balog, interim executive director of the Clackamas Workforce Partnership, told the C4 regional committee on April 2 that the nonprofit workforce board serves Clackamas County under the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and acts as a convener between employers, training providers and public agencies.
"We are the local workforce development board serving Clackamas County," Balog said, explaining that WIOA dollars flow from the U.S. Department of Labor to states and then to local workforce boards, which contract with community organizations to deliver training and employment services.
Balog said CWP also is discussing how to help workers prepare for the incoming impacts of artificial intelligence and automation, which are changing tasks across…
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