Toolkit
This toolkit offers steps on how the juvenile justice and workforce development systems can collaborate to serve youth with justice involvement. The toolkit includes a review of evidence-based practices in youth workforce development, an examination of how the public workforce system is funded under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), examples of how to utilize WIOA-funded services for better outcomes for youth with justice involvement, and steps that could be taken to form interagency partnerships between the juvenile justice and workforce development systems.
December, 2020
Toolkit
This toolkit is a synthesis of a blogpost, reports, and links to previous webinars to offer health and human services leaders guidance as they design and evaluate programs targeting young families. The resources offered in this compendium are divided into several topics, including economic well-being, education, foster youth, mental health, pandemic response, policy, program design, and youth voice.
December, 2020
Toolkit
This blogpost highlights components of an equitable apprenticeship program that supports educational and workforce outcomes for youth and young adults. The components comprise expanding access to work, including improving transportation options; fostering a sense of belonging in the learning culture and offering a safe environment where participants are welcomed to contribute; and continuous improvement by analyzing data to identify and monitor gaps in program outcomes.
October, 2020
Toolkit
Jobs for the Future developed this learning toolkit, which is drawn from Jobs to Careers, a national program that facilitates quality in the healthcare sector through on-the-job training for frontline workers. The toolkit offers step-by-step instructions and resources to support organizations such as technical schools, union-based programs, and community-based organizations in creating and implementing work-based learning for new and incumbent frontline employees. The toolkit is organized into four sections: Planning, Designing, Doing, and Sustaining.
September, 2020
Toolkit
The Centering Child Well-Being in Child Support Policy toolkit draws from analysis of state child support director survey data. The toolkit covers evidence-based innovations reflecting two policy components: Ensure Families Receive All Child Support Payments and Implement Sensible Debt Reduction Strategies. The toolkit also includes infographics and policy fact sheets on child support enforcement approaches for noncustodial parents.
August, 2020
Toolkit
This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation tool supports Tribal TANF-Child Welfare Coordination grantees and human service partners as they identify and operationalize collaboration approaches and monitor the effectiveness of these approaches. There is also guidance on how to measure and track progress on coordination among partners. The tool includes details on options for completing, scoring, and interpreting Collaboration Assessment Tool results; the entire assessment tool is included in an appendix and as a separate downloadable Excel file.
July, 2020
Toolkit
This tool relies on state-provided or other public data to support early childhood stakeholders in calculating the funds needed to increase early childhood workforce qualifications. The calculator enables the user to set the program type (for example, Head Start, Pre-K, or other center-based programs), child age group (infant-toddler and/or pre-K), and teacher category (lead and/or assistant teacher).
June, 2020
Toolkit
This toolkit offers steps and guidance on how to use virtual communications for client engagement and internal staff management. Information is provided for voice and conference calls using Google Voice, FreeConferenceCall.com, and Google Hangouts; video conferencing using Zoom and WebEx; creating and sharing documents with Google Drive and Microsoft Office 365; and internal messaging using Slack and Google Hangouts Chat.
April, 2020
Toolkit
This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation tool assists current and future Tribal TANF-Child Welfare Coordination grantees in identifying and evaluating efforts to build collaboration, assessing ongoing collaboration, and tracking progress of collaboration and coordination efforts. The assessment tool can help organizations build and strengthen partnerships, identify areas for changing practice, and improve coordination among human service providers and Tribal TANF agencies.
April, 2020
Toolkit
The family-centered coaching approach allows staff to partner with families holistically, taking into account their strengths and goals, challenges, and systemic barriers. This toolkit offers strategies, tools, and resources that can help programs, agencies, case managers, coaches, and others change how they work with families striving to reach their goals by planning for and intentionally changing the way coaching is delivered to families.
April, 2020
