Partnerships with other agencies, private sector organizations, non-profit entities, public sector agencies, universities

NCHRP SYNTHESIS 362: Training Programs, Policies and Practices

State	With whom do you partner for training education and development?	Are these partnerships the result of a formal agreement?	Have you identified successful practices for partnering? With which organizations?
AR	Other agencies within state government	Formal	N/A
AZ	Other agencies, community colleges, universities, private-sector vendors and providers	Written interagency agreements; Private sector contracts	Arizona has an entire office devoted to partnering.
CA	Include local, regional and other state agency staff in training classes and academics at no cost to participants	Formal and informal	N/A
ID	Colleges, universities, private-sector vendors	Formal	-
LA	LA Division of Administration/ Comprehensive Employee Training Program for management, leadership, supervisory training, parish adult education centers		PPM 47 - Training Advisory Committee
MD	Maryland colleges, universities, LTAP center, intra/inter- agency contracts, contractors, consultants	Informal	-
MI	Training vendors, FHWA, AASHTO, Michigan Dept of Civil Service	Informal	As a result of feedback from employees regarding economic concessions, we partnered with the State Employees' Credit Union to provide financial planning and counseling webinars to employees.
MO	Do not partner	-	-
MT	Technical colleges, universities, consultants (we invite and sometimes require consultants to attend training when they want to do specialized work for us), LTAP. Also invite cities, counties, FHWA to participate in our training	Informal	We had an informal relationship with the Montana Contractors Association to create a cooperative training program in which Montana DOT and contractors' personnel could attend courses and make it more cost-effective and do it as a tax-exempt activity. Unfo
ND	Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute for the Transportation Learning Network. BSC Partnership for training of public employees in the Bismarck/ Mandan area	Informal	Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute and BSC.
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