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Tight Knit: a podcast about the many ways people are working to build stronger relationships and communities. In Season Two, we follow teens and adults as they navigate the various pathways that can lead to good jobs and careers, and the systems that can support or impede their success.

enRalph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation17 Episodes

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Ep. 8: Working on a Bigger Picture

Ep. 8: Working on a Bigger Picture

This season of Tight Knit has covered a lot of ground seeking to understand the landscape of workforce development in Southeast Michigan and Western New York. In our final episode, Tight Knit host Shannon Cason brings several guests to the table to answer the question: Where do we go from here to meet the needs of so many stakeholders? The conversation includes Chioke Mose-Teleford from the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, Greg Handel with the Detroit Regional Chamber, and Karen Utz from Empire State Development. Shannon also talks to Susan Dundon of the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation about its north star for workforce development.

enAugust 15, 2023

workforce development

tight knit podcast

Ep. 7: The Bus Stops Here: Employers Try Solving Turnover

Ep. 7: The Bus Stops Here: Employers Try Solving Turnover

A missed phone bill, a late bus, or even a not-quite-completed degree can derail employment for many. Meanwhile, employers suffer the cost of poor retention and few promotions within their entry-level workers. In this episode, we learn about the Employer Resource Network, ERN, which brings businesses together to solve sticky employment issues in their region. We talk to Trinity Health about their apprenticeships and skills-based hiring. Both have increased the health system’s retention and diversity. Finally, follow us as we try to take Metro Detroit buses to work.

enAugust 03, 2023

workforce development

tight knit podcast

Ep. 6: Who Are You Willing to Hire?

Ep. 6: Who Are You Willing to Hire?

If businesses want to find enough workers, they’ll need to change their hiring practices, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. We look at programs that provide job opportunities for untapped workers and businesses, why things have changed, what it means for business, and how nonprofits are stepping up to give those often overlooked an opportunity for a brighter future.

enJuly 20, 2023

Ep. 5: An Electric Future for Gen Z

Ep. 5: An Electric Future for Gen Z

From solar cells and batteries to electric vehicles, the future is electric. Getting there takes a coordinated effort among nonprofits, schools and colleges, businesses and governments. We talk to several organizations in Detroit and Buffalo about upskilling workers and enticing young people to the field.

enJuly 13, 2023

workforce development

our next energy

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workforce intelligence network

say yes buffalo

Ep. 4: Jump Starting Careers in Construction and Beyond

Ep. 4: Jump Starting Careers in Construction and Beyond

Take a deeper look at how workforce development programs, government, and businesses cooperate to keep workers and build economic opportunity. This episode also explores financial risks of these changes and the impacts on communities at large.

enJune 27, 2023

workforce development

Ep. 3: Manufacturing in a New Era

Ep. 3: Manufacturing in a New Era

At Buffalo’s Northland Workforce Training Center on Buffalo’s Eastside, men and women are finding new careers in advanced manufacturing. The center’s programs help to fill a skilled trades workforce gap in Western New York. In Detroit, Sarah Gregory with Detroit Regional Partnership explains how they draw business to Southeastern Michigan.

enJune 15, 2023

workforce development

tight knit podcast

northland buffalo

ralph c wilson jr foundation

Ep. 2: Get Your Education!

Ep. 2: Get Your Education!

This week we look at how public education helps the workforce, and we talk to one teenager who loves shop class at Detroit’s Randolph Career and Technical Center, and to Don Hutchison who had a bumpy road after high school and is now Dean of Engineering and Advanced Technology at Macomb Community College.

enJune 06, 2023

workforce development

Ep. 1: The Workforce Pipeline

Ep. 1: The Workforce Pipeline

Learn more about the Tight Knit series from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation at tightknit.org.

Tight Knit is hosted by Shannon Cason. Our supervising producer and editor is Sea Stachura and our executive producer is David Leins.

This episode was produced and reported by Rob St. Mary, Cary Junior II, Jack Filbrant and Patrick Bernas. Sound design by Conor Anderson. Music supervision by Sam Beaubien. Music from Blue Dot Sessions. Video production by Jonathan Deschaine.

We heard archival material from the U-S National Archives, C-SPAN, NPR, the Internet Archive and the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank.

This season of Tight Knit is produced for the Ralph C Wilson Jr. Foundation by Lafayette American and WDET, Detroit’s NPR Station.

enMay 25, 2023

apprenticeships

workforce development

Introducing Tight Knit: Workforce Development

Introducing Tight Knit: Workforce Development

Our award-winning series returns with Tight Knit Season 2 focused on Workforce Development. In this season, we follow teens and adults as they navigate the various pathways that can lead to good jobs and careers, and the systems that can support or impede their success.

enMay 25, 2023

workforce development

Ep. 8: Canopy of Neighbors

Ep. 8: Canopy of Neighbors

Many people in the U.S. are getting older without a close family member who can take care of them. A Buffalo organization is one of a growing number of global “villages” that draw on volunteers to help otherwise isolated people with all aspects of caregiving.

enJuly 23, 2020

canopy of neighbors

Ep. 7: The Unseen Hand

Ep. 7: The Unseen Hand

A neurologist found himself entirely unprepared, emotionally and professionally, for his father’s Alzheimer’s Disease. But over time, Alzheimer’s revealed a side of his father that changed the son’s view of his dad--and of the brain--forever.

enJuly 23, 2020

Ep. 6: 4 Generations + 1 Cute Dog

Ep. 6: 4 Generations + 1 Cute Dog

Four generations of the Roberts family live in one house in central Michigan. They use the house itself, off-the-shelf technology, and other creative ways to help look after a family member with dementia, even training their very cute Bichon Frise to be a service dog.

enJuly 23, 2020

assisted living

Ep. 5: Family Photo

Ep. 5: Family Photo

We meet two women who moved across the country to look after their respective sets of aging parents, even though their elders, who came to the U.S. from India, had trouble accepting them: both individually, when they came out as lesbians, and as a married couple.

enJuly 23, 2020

Ep. 4: Difficult Relationships

Ep. 4: Difficult Relationships

You might become a parent’s caregiver out of love, or a wish to give back. But that’s much harder for children who were abused by the parent who needs them.

enJuly 23, 2020

Ep. 3: It Just Takes One Person

Ep. 3: It Just Takes One Person

Aging in place can be harder in rural communities, where resources and trained help can be scarce or far away. But in Chautauqua County, New York, we meet one woman who’s making a huge difference for countless isolated caregivers.

enJuly 23, 2020

Ep. 2: Stepping Up

Ep. 2: Stepping Up

Detroit’s Angelena Taylor was only 28 when she became her father’s main caregiver after he had a stroke. This millennial daughter, educator, and former Ms. Black Michigan is focused on her dad while also setting goals for herself: to travel, do fulfilling work, and have her own family.

enJuly 23, 2020

Ep. 1: Caregiving In A Digital World

Ep. 1: Caregiving In A Digital World

Two families approach their roles as caregivers with a combination of tech, ingenuity, love--and in one case, a very smart little dog.

enJuly 23, 2020

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