Home-Grown Social Capital: How Higher Education for Formerly Incarcerated Women Facilitates Family and Community Transformation

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This study from the Aspen Institute explores how justice-involved women experience family relationships. The researchers conducted interviews and focus groups with women enrolled in College and Community Fellowship, a program that helps justice-involved women successfully complete their college education. These interviews showed the pivotal role that social capital, in the form of family support, plays in enabling these women to complete college. Furthermore, as justice-involved women complete education, they become important sources of social capital within their communities. The authors pose several recommendations to help cultivate social capital among women with convictions.
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2015-08-31T20:00:00
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https://ascend.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2015093020Social20…
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2015-09-01

Personal Solutions: Personal Action, Collective Impact

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This chapter of The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back From the Brink, describes the efforts undertaken by the Aspen Institute to help low-income women attain self-sufficiency. Ascend, a program of the Aspen Institute, commissioned a series of conversations with women and girls across the country to find out what information and resources they felt they were missing. Based on these conversations, Ascend came up with three ideas to put women on the path to self-sufficiency: two-generation strategies, the economic potential of social capital, and 21st-century Life Education. The report includes several examples of social capital initiatives across the country from Family Independence Initiative, the Crittenton Women’s Union, and the University of South Florida.

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2013-12-31T19:00:00
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http://shriverreport.org/personal-solutions-centering-personal-decisions-and-co…
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2014-01-01

Final Rule: Flexibility, Efficiency, and Modernization in Child Support Enforcement Programs

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The Flexibility, Efficiency, and Modernization in Child Support Enforcement Programs final rule makes changes to strengthen the child support enforcement program. Additionally, it updates current processes to: increase regular, timely payments to families; increase the number of noncustodial parents supporting their children; and improve program operations.
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2016-12-19T19:00:00
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2016-12-20
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Work-Based Learning in Action

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This resource from Jobs for the Future (JFF) includes case studies that highlight effective work-based learning models. JFF identified seven principles that support low-skilled youth and adults seeking to enter and excel in a career. The principles include: supporting entry and advancement in a career track; providing meaningful job tasks that build career skills and knowledge; offering compensation; identifying target skills and how gains will be validated; rewarding skill development; supporting college entry, persistence, and completion; and providing comprehensive student supports.
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2015-12-31T19:00:00
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http://www.jff.org/publications/work-based-learning-action
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2016-01-01

Building Savings for Success: Early Impacts from the Assets for Independence Program Randomized Evaluation

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Assets for Independence (AFI) helps provide families with individual development accounts (IDAs) that allow them to save by matching their personal savings for specific investments, such as buying a home or enrolling in higher education and training programs. The Urban Institute evaluated two Assets for Independence (AFI) program sites, Albuquerque and Los Angeles. This report presents findings that show that AFI produced a seven percentage point increase in the share of participants with liquid assets, and a $799 mean increase in liquid assets.
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2016-12-07T19:00:00
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http://www.urban.org/research/publication/building-savings-success
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2016-12-08

A Closer Look at Latino Access to Child Care Subsidies

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The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) helps low-income parents pay for child care so that they are able to go to work or school. In 2015, 26 percent of children under the age of six were Hispanic/Latino. Latinos tend to have disproportionately high poverty rates. However, only eight percent of eligible Latino children receive assistance from CCDBG. This brief from the Center for Law and Social Policy further examines data on this population and proposes policy solutions to address this lack of access to assistance.
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2016-11-30T19:00:00
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http://www.clasp.org/resources-and-publications/publication-1/CloserLookAtLatin…
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2016-12-01

Employment Pathways for Boys and Young Men of Color: Solutions and Strategies That Can Make a Difference

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This issue brief from the Center for Law and Social Policy examines how young men of color have been disproportionately affected by the decline in employment over the past several years. It is often the case that this population has very few opportunities for exposure to career paths, obtaining work experience, and building employment history. This brief also provides recommendations for promising strategies to improve outcomes for young men of color.
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2016-08-31T20:00:00
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http://www.clasp.org/resources-and-publications/publication-1/BMOC_Employment.p…
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2016-09-01

Stackable Credential Policy Scan

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The National Skills Coalition’s Stackable Credential Policy Scan shows that nineteen states support industry-recognized post-secondary stackable credentials that can accumulate toward a higher level certificate or associate degree. These states can utilize this toolkit to expand upon their current policy, and states without a similar policy in place can use this toolkit to establish their own.
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2016-11-30T19:00:00
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http://www.nationalskillscoalition.org/resources/publications/file/Stackable-Cr…
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2016-12-01

8 Things to Remember about Child Development

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Some aspects of child development are often misconstrued. This brief from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child examines these aspects and clarifies their meaning and importance. For example, even infants are adversely affected when significant stresses occur in their family environment.
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2016-11-30T19:00:00
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http://46y5eh11fhgw3ve3ytpwxt9r.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016…
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2016-12-01

Leveraging Community Colleges in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: A Blueprint for State Policymakers

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This brief from the Education Commission of the States examines how to increase coordination between community colleges and local workforce boards under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). It specifically discusses how states can utilize federal investments to improve these partnerships.
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2016-12-12T19:00:00
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http://www.ecs.org/leveraging-community-colleges-in-the-workforce-innovation-an…
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2016-12-13