The Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association

Since 2017, KK&P has supported RI’s leading trade association for green industries in designing, implementing, and growing a comprehensive portfolio of workforce programs. Our work with the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association (RINLA) began with the development of a career pathways map, based on federal data and employer interviews, articulating career opportunities available and the associated credentials and skills. We then developed a detailed 5 year comprehensive plan that addressed not just workforce programming but also the ecosystem of contexts that will ensure that the program succeeds, for job seekers and for employers.

KK&P has provided strategic direction, facilitation, program design, implementation/ project management support to grow Growing Futures, RINLA’s workforce program portfolio, to include a suite of multi-employer, multi-tiered, multi-year Registered Apprenticeship programs; development of a new interdisciplinary Associate’s Degree at the Community College of RI- Environment, Sustainability, and Mangent-  targeted to the region’s plant-based industries; and a Civilian Conservation Corps-inspired, 5-week pre-apprenticeship training program (including a public-private partnership that put people to work contributing public lands management).

View the Growing Futures program website here.
View RINLA’s overview of the Environment, Sustainability, and Management degree here.