Scale LIT

💻 Building Digital Confidence and Community

Over the past year, scaleLIT partnered with the Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation and Comcast NBCUniversal to expand access to digital literacy and strengthen digital equity in the community.

Through this initiative:
✨ 25 learners engaged
✨ 108 hours of digital learning completed
✨ 95 Northstar assessments passed
✨ 95 digital badges awarded

Participants built skills in computer basics, email, Microsoft Office, career exploration, cybersecurity, and more — while gaining confidence using technology in everyday life and work.

Read more about the partnership and program impact here: www.scalelit.org/blog/aspiredigitalclasses

🗣️ Join us June 11 for the next LWIA 7 Workforce System Partner Meeting at Harper College!

This quarter’s conversation will explore the growing impact of artificial intelligence on workforce development, digital equity, customer access, and future job readiness across our region.

We’re bringing together leaders from workforce, education, and digital equity spaces for a timely discussion on how we can prepare our systems — and our communities — for emerging technology trends while keeping people at the center of the work.

Featured panelists include:
• Michael Matos, scaleLIT
• Kyla Williams Tate, Cook County Digital Equity
• Sasha Ongtengco, Creative Workers Arts Alliance Illinois
• Annabel Hasty, Harper College
• Moderated by Michael Thompson, Cook County Bureau of Economic Development

Topics include:
✔️ AI in workforce and education
✔️ Digital equity and accessibility
✔️ Upskilling and reskilling opportunities
✔️ Human-centered service delivery
✔️ Preparing workforce systems for the future

These quarterly meetings continue to strengthen collaboration, partnerships, and resource sharing across the LWIA 7 workforce ecosystem.

We look forward to seeing our partners there — and encourage you to share with colleagues across your network.

Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership

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