Advisory Board Panel January 2025 (Providers) by Sherelle Foust

2025-01-23 19:53:15 UTC

Staffing capacity is an ongoing challenge - particularly specialized staffing to support programs focused on STEM and tech.

2025-01-23 19:53:41 UTC

Staffing challenges and outreach to community members aligned with feedback we hear from CLCs and other non-profits we support.

2025-01-23 19:54:38 UTC

All three of these categories are relevant to the benefits experienced by our agency. The extent of benefits related to something like partnership expansion does depend on organizational capacity, geographic location, etc.

Human-I-T

2025-01-23 19:56:26 UTC

The benefits listed were broad and therefore do align with benefits we see. All organizations do experience those benefits differently depending on their community and support they provide.

Challenges summary

2025-01-23 19:57:46 UTC

It's generally agreed that the challenges presented reflect fair representations of the experiences of CLC's as well as challenges non CLC organizations may be seeing in the community. An additional challenge shared indicated that clc's may be using funds as an enhancement to their existing work vs really dedicating staff or funding to support optimizing the CLC investment. Program integration and adaptation of content was also shared as a challenge.

Benefits Summary

2025-01-23 19:59:26 UTC

In addition to the benefits which we all felt were relevant, additionally we added access to devices and AT&T fiber and the overall enhancement of technical infrastructure for community members was seen as a highlight. We also talked about the improvement and creation of a more collaborative eco-system was very beneficial. Capacity building and partnerships were in particular lifted up.

Sharing a Device

2025-01-23 20:36:41 UTC

Shared devices: Positive for libraries, community centers and in areas where not all community members have in home devices. Collaborative learning projects or group learning environments. Situations when you have learners who are less digitally fluent and can have support from other family members or training staff who can help navigate.

Not Sharing

2025-01-23 20:37:39 UTC

When possible we generally agree that a 1:1 device scenario is the best solution however we acknowledge that may not be currently achievable.