Improving Outcomes for Learners, Earners and Entire Systems
As workforce demands evolve, The Attainment Network brings together partners across education, industry, government and communities to align around shared goals and create clear pathways to in-demand careers. By strengthening collaboration across sectors, we help build systems that expand opportunities and improve outcomes for learners, earners, and entire communities.
Backbone Support to Turn Ideas into Lasting Change
The Attainment Network serves as an intermediary, providing the backbone support that helps partnerships turn shared goals into meaningful action. We provide regional planning, cross-sector coordination, technical assistance, professional learning, and data-informed continuous improvement guidance. Ultimately, we build the capacity of partners to work together effectively and deliver lasting results.
ALIGN
Bring partners across sectors together around shared goals, priorities and action.
LEARN
Provide technical assistance, capacity building and structures that help partnerships move from ideas to implementation.
BUILD
Use data, evaluation, continuous improvement and communities of practice to understand what is working and strengthen what comes next.
SCALE
Share learning across regions and connect local experience with statewide partners, policy and systems change.
Expertise across the education-to-career ecosystem
Deep knowledge across the issues and opportunities that shape successful pathways - from career advising and work-based learning to data, policy and the future of work.
CAREER ADVISING & NAVIGATION
Helping learners and earners understand their options, make informed choices and successfully navigate education-to-career pathways.
Employer Engagement & Work-Based Learning
Building stronger connections between employers, educators and learners through work-based learning, apprenticeships and workforce pathways.
Credentials & Postsecondary Pathways
Strengthening transitions, transfer opportunities and stackable credential pathways that help learners build momentum toward education and career goals.
Data, Evaluation & Continuous Improvement
Helping partners use data and evidence to understand outcomes, identify gaps, strengthen implementation and scale what works.
Policy & Systems Change
Connecting practice, policy and cross-sector leadership to remove barriers and build more aligned, sustainable systems.
Advanced Industries & the Future of Work
Helping partners anticipate changing workforce needs, emerging industries and the implications of technology and economic change for learners and communities.
SYSTEMS CHANGE HAPPENS IN COMMUNITIES
Working alongside K–12 districts, postsecondary institutions, employers, workforce organizations and community partners to build pathways around the opportunities and needs of each region.
METRO DENVER
A regional partnership bringing education, workforce, employer and community partners together to strengthen connected pathways for learners and earners.
SAN LUIS VALLEY
A place-based partnership designed around the region’s unique assets, opportunities and workforce needs.
SCALING ACROSS COLORADO
Shared learning across regions and works with statewide partners strengthens the conditions that allow effective pathways models to grow and adapt.
BRING THE MODEL TO YOUR REGION
Interested in strengthening pathways in your community? We can help partners assess needs, align stakeholders and build the infrastructure for sustainable collaboration.
WHAT HAPPENS LOCALLY DOESN'T STAY LOCAL
The Attainment Network helps connect lessons from regional implementation with statewide partners, policy leaders and systems—while bringing statewide resources, priorities and opportunities back to regional communities.
This feedback loop helps promising practices travel, gives statewide leaders clearer insight into implementation, and helps regional partners benefit from shared learning rather than solving the same challenges in isolation.
PUT OUR EXPERIENCE TO WORK
In addition to our long-term regional and statewide partnerships, we provide consulting and technical assistance to organizations, partnerships and communities working to strengthen education-to-career systems.
STRATEGIC PLANNING & SYSTEMS DESIGN
Clarify direction, align priorities and design strategies and implementation plans that move complex work forward.
FACILITATION & PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Bring the right voices to the table, build shared ownership and create structures for effective cross-sector collaboration.
RESEARCH, EVALUATION & DATA STRATEGY
Build the evidence, measurement approaches and data strategies needed to understand progress and make better decisions.