Webinar Materials: Taking on Chronic Unemployment: Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Subsidized Employment Programs

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Heartland Alliance’s National Initiatives on Poverty & Economic Opportunity joined the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality (GCPI) and the National Employment Law Project for the webinar, Taking on Chronic Unemployment: Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Subsidized Employment Programs. The presenters shared the findings and recommendations from GCPI’s recent report, Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Subsidized Employment Programs, and explained how subsidized employment can be a cost-effective way to decrease persistent unemployment and to combat long-term poverty. The webinar was held on August 10, 2016.

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2016-08-10T08:00:00
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View Webinar Recording
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2016-08-10

Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS) - Adult Career Pathways

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Resources developed through the Adult Career Pathways Training and Support Center, part of the Designing Instruction for Career Pathways Initiative, are now available through the Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS). The resources are designed to help state and local adult education providers deliver services that help low-skilled adults transition to postsecondary education and employment. Online courses, a resource center, issue briefs, webcasts, and newsletters can be found on the website.
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2015-12-31T19:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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http://lincs.ed.gov/programs/acp
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2016-01-01

Incarceration and Child Protective Services Involvement

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The U.S. incarceration rate remains exceptionally high, especially for socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, and the incidence of involvement in child protective services (CPS) is also quite high among disadvantaged groups. This confluence of incarceration and CPS involvement may have various impacts for parents, children, and families as a whole. The authors of this Institute for Research on Poverty brief examined data from Wisconsin to demonstrate and describe the overlap between parental incarceration and child CPS involvement, as well as between adolescent CPS involvement and later incarceration in young adulthood.
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2016-07-31T20:00:00
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http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/fastfocus/pdfs/FF24-2016.pdf
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2016-08-01

Webinar Materials: 2Gen in Tribal Communities

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This webinar from the Ascend Network at the Aspen Institute highlighted the context and demographics of tribal communities, provided information about 2Gen practice efforts underway in Alaska Native and Native American communities, and offered insights about ways to incorporate family voices and traditions into programs. It highlighted the work of Cook Inlet Tribal Council, which serves Anchorage, Alaska and a large swath of the Alaskan interior, including some remote villages.
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2016-02-11T07:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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https://ascend.aspeninstitute.org/webinar-2gen-in-tribal-communities-february-2…
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2016-02-11

WIOA Priority of Service for High-Need Adults: Reference Guide

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This recently released memo from CLASP serves as a reference guide on the WIOA adult program’s priority of service for “recipients of public assistance, other low- income individuals, and individuals who are basic skills deficient.” The guide includes text and citations from the statute, the final rules, guidance, planning requirements, and data collection, as well as recommendations for implementation.
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2016-07-31T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://www.clasp.org/resources-and-publications/publication-1/2016WIOApos_refer…
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2016-08-01

State Data and Contacts Map

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This map from the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) shows the approximate number of people experiencing homelessness, both nationally and statewide, on any given night in 2015.
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2015-12-31T19:00:00
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https://www.usich.gov/tools-for-action/map/#fn[]=1700&fn[]=3100&fn[]=7000&fn[]=…
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2016-01-01

The Family Options Study: Short-term impacts and special topics on the special service needs of homeless families

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This video from the 2016 Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS) describes the Family Options Study, which is a random assignment study examining the impact of housing and services for homeless families in twelve communities across the United States. Topics covered include the study design, findings from the first 18 months, and the services needs of the families involved in the study.

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2016-06-02T20:00:00
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http://www.recsconference.net/2016videos.htm
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2016-06-03

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: Federal interagency coordination, state implementation, and research opportunities

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This video from the 2016 Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS) covers a panel discussion on the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Topics discussed include WIOA as it related to TANF participants, state-level implementation of WIOA, the research opportunities presented by WIOA implementation, and what is already known about the policy.
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2016-06-01T20:00:00
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http://www.recsconference.net/2016videos.htm
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2016-06-02

What Makes Education Reform Difficult: Poverty in Rural America

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The author of this post from the Education Facilities Clearinghouse shares information to show that rural schools face many of the same challenges as urban schools, but do not receive the same funding or improvement efforts. For example, one-third of U.S. schools in rural areas have low-income students, low standardized test scores, and low rates for college attendance; and while rural schools serve over 40% of U.S. students, they receive only 22% of federal funding.
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2015-08-31T20:00:00
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http://www.efc.gwu.edu/library/what-makes-education-reform-difficult-poverty-in…
Publication Date
2015-09-01

Child Poverty Higher and More Persistent in Rural America

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This brief from the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy examines the persistence of high child poverty rates (20 percent or greater) between 1980 and 2010, indicates that the incidence of high child poverty is growing nationwide, and shows that it is most prevalent in rural America. Approximately 28 percent of all rural children live in persistently poor counties, compared to 13 percent of urban children. In 1980, 24 percent of urban counties and 43 percent of rural counties had high child poverty rates. These rates rose to 32 and 56 percent respectively by 1990, but had returned to 1980 levels by 2000. However, the 2010 rates were much higher, indicating that 47 percent of urban counties and 64 percent of rural counties were characterized by high child poverty rates.
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2015-12-31T19:00:00
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http://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1265&context=carsey
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2016-01-01