This journal article presents data to illustrate how the death rate from opioids among Native Americans has risen significantly over the last 17 years. The authors also discuss tribal medical and legal responses to the opioid epidemic, including tribally-operated medication assisted therapies and drug diversion courts.

In this podcast, the current chief executive officer and the former president of CareerWise Colorado discuss this career and technical education apprenticeship program for high school students. By targeting youth, the program’s innovative model helps students explore careers and build skills from a young age. Under the paid apprenticeship program, students work two days a week to apply what they learn in the classroom during the other three days, which emphasizes the connection between classroom learning and real-world employment. Students leave the program with skills, income, and credentials that can be applied to higher education. Other topics discussed include recruitment, demographics, retention, transferable skills, and future program plans.

The analysis of this report, prepared by a study group of researchers from the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute, has two key parts: it identifies individuals who constitute the working class by location, educational attainment level, types of work held, levels of homeownership, and labor force participation; and it presents solutions drawn from working models for job creation, increased wages, and increasing community engagement.

This Aspen Institute blog draws from the initial findings of its Reimagine Retail project, which examines strategies to improve retail jobs and identifies career pathways in this industry sector. A discussion of the partnership between family-owned grocer Pete’s Fresh Market and Instituto del Progreso Latino highlights the outcomes of these strategies, as well as relationship building between workforce organizations and business and the changes that have been made among workplace practices or training to support this type of partnership.

This Urban Institute policy brief reviews the extent that children’s negative behavioral outcomes continue after their fathers have been released from incarceration. The brief compares negative outcomes, such as outward displays of aggression or internalized expressions, including withdrawal or anxiety, among children when their fathers are incarcerated and when they are released with outcomes of those children whose fathers have never been incarcerated.

The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness will begin to issue a set of six fact sheets through its blog “Home, Together” to bridge a connection between early care and education providers and housing and homelessness services providers. The fact sheets intend to support a whole-family approach that addresses the needs and strengths of parents and children experiencing homelessness. The sheets also strive to improve the integration of early childhood homelessness data into a broader community-wide planning strategy that seeks to make homelessness a brief and one-time occurrence.

The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) seeks material from stakeholders on hearing quality and judicial decision-making in child welfare cases. OPRE encourages submissions of findings from related programs, research reports, tools, and local datasets, among other relevant resources. The information gathered will be used to develop the Understanding Judicial Decision-Making and Hearing Quality in Child Welfare project that will look at how hearing quality and the court decision-making process affect case planning, child well-being, and family outcomes. Materials should be emailed to cwhearingquality@acf.hhs.gov by January 31, 2019.

The National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB) and Innovate+Educate invite workforce development boards wanting to learn about and integrate two-generation or family-centered approaches into their workforce development services to participate in the Family Centered Employment Community of Practice (FCE CoP). Through the FCE CoP, participating workforce development boards can: learn about family-centered employment strategies, share information and tools, determine strategies on collecting and using data and on leveraging resources to support a whole family approach, and learn how policy affects serving the whole family. Deadline for applications is December 20, 2018, 11:59 p.m. EST.

This interactive data dashboard, developed as a collaborative research project between the U.S. Census Bureau and researchers from Harvard University and Brown University, is a comprehensive Census tract-level dataset of children’s outcomes in adulthood using data from almost the entire U.S. population. In particular, the tract analysis estimates childhood outcomes in adulthood, to include earnings and incarceration rate, as they correlate to parents’ income, race, and gender. The outcomes can be traced to the poverty and incarceration rates occurring in the census tracts where the children grew up.

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection is continuing its Youth Employment Success (YES) initiative with a new 2019 cohort. This program aims to improve financial literacy for youth in job readiness programs and is looking for five new programs across the country that are interested in creating and testing tools to help youth better understand their finances. Ultimately, the program goal is to improve socioeconomic self-sufficiency and employment outcomes in youth job programs, as well as develop sustainable tools to serve youth across the country. If selected, the programs will receive access to new tools developed by the Bureau and will also be able to evaluate and make suggestions on the tools. Selection criteria include mission alignment, organizational capacity, target population, willingness to share feedback, and relationships with similar programs. If you think your program and participants would benefit from a tool and training to improve young adult finances, email empowerment@cfpb.gov with a Letter of Interest by November 26, 2018. Other resources for Youth Employment Programs can be found at https://www.consumerfinance.gov/practitioner-resources/resources-youth-employment-programs/.