Business and Community College Partnerships: A Blueprint

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Employers often partner with community colleges in Learn and Earn models of talent development, which integrate important aspects of employment and education to help working learners move along education and career pathways to earning family sustaining wages. This resource from Corporate Voices for Working Families provides resources for business and community college leaders interested in forming similar partnerships. The resource describes different types of partnerships, the keys for successful partnerships, and what both parties have to gain from the partnership.

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2011-12-31T19:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://gradsoflife.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Business-and-Community-Colleg…
Publication Date
2012-01-01

Classroom to Career: Leveraging Employment Data to Measure Labor Market Outcomes

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This report, released by the Workforce Data Quality Campaign, assesses the current landscape of employment data. It proposes technical enhancements to help agencies and institutions more effectively collect and share information, and provides policy recommendations to better inform students and other key stakeholders.

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2016-05-01T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://www.workforcedqc.org/resources-events/resources/classroom-career-leverag…
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2016-05-02

Former Foster Youth: Employment Outcomes Up to Age 30

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This article from the Children and Youth Services Review discusses a study that followed former foster care youth up to age 30 to see if they continued to experience the same poor employment outcomes that have been indicated in studies of former foster care youth between ages 18 and21. The study found that low rates of employment and earnings continued until age 30, but work experience before age 18 did improve outcomes for those youth during their mid to late twenties. The findings have implications for discussions about extending services to foster care youth even after they reach adulthood.
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2013-12-31T19:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740913003800
Publication Date
2014-01-01

Building Core Capabilities for Life

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This report from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University focuses on “core capabilities,” including executive function, and how they can be impacted by toxic stress, leading to challenges with life skills such as parenting and workplace effectiveness. The report discusses how environmental triggers can impact ability to use core capabilities to maintain emotional balance, and reviews how and when these skills develop. The report also includes examples of how excessive stress can alter one’s ability to use core capabilities, and how service providers can help clients build missing capabilities.
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2016-02-29T19:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/building-core-capabilities-for-lif…
Publication Date
2016-03-01

Braiding & Blending Funding Streams to Meet the Health-Related Social Needs of Low-Income Persons: Considerations for State Health Policymakers

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This brief from the National Academy for State Health Policy brings attention to non-Medicaid funding sources that states could use to address social determinants of health and other needs not typically covered by Medicaid. It is intended to familiarize state Medicaid, public health, and other state policymakers with the funding streams of other agencies, and sketch out a continuum of options to help states coordinate funding to better serve the needs of low-income populations.
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2016-01-31T19:00:00
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http://www.nashp.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Jean1.pdf
Publication Date
2016-02-01

Department of Labor Introduces WorkforceGPS

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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) recently launched WorkforceGPS, an interactive online communication and learning technical assistance platform. Users will find resources, learning opportunities, and space to connect with peers on topics of mutual interest. WorkforceGPS replaces Workforce3One.

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2016-05-01T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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https://www.workforcegps.org/
https://www.workforcegps.org/resources/2016/04/12/19/23/Meet_WorkforceGPS_Intro…
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2016-05-02

Federal Grants to Encourage Saving and Promote Economic Security Among Nation’s Working Families

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The Administration for Children and Families’ Assets for Independence (AFI) program recently issued $7.1 million in federal grants to 30 organizations. The AFI program provides grant funds to a wide range of eligible organizations to assist low-income individuals and families with building long-term savings through matched savings accounts called Individual Development Accounts (IDAs). Every dollar of earned income AFI project participants deposit into their IDAs is matched (from $1 to $8 in combined federal and non-federal funds) by AFI.
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2016-05-01T20:00:00
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City/County
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/media/press/2016/federal-grants-to-encourage-saving-and-…
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2016-05-02

Webinar Materials: Strategies for Engaging Foster Care Youth in Teen Pregnancy Prevention

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National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy staff and several partners held a webinar to discuss strategies for engaging youth in foster care. The webinar focused on three major components: partnerships necessary for working with youth in foster care; challenges to implementing Evidence Based Programs (EBPs) with youth in foster care, such as content that may trigger trauma; and strategies for addressing challenges practitioners face while implementing EBPs. Speakers throughout the webinar provided insights into existing programs and how their curricula can be implemented effectively by narrowing their focus on teen pregnancy prevention, healthy relationships, and recognition of the varied experiences of foster care youth.
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2012-10-02T08:00:00
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City/County
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https://thenationalcampaign.org/resource/strategies-engaging-youth-foster-care-…
Publication Date
2012-10-01

Webinar Materials: Healthy Romantic Relationships and Teen Pregnancy Prevention

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This webinar from the Office of Adolescent Health explained that the broad goal of Relationship Education (RE) programs for adolescents is to impart a combination of knowledge, values, and skills believed necessary to establish healthy romantic relationships. Relationships are important for healthy development of youth, and romantic relationships during adolescence can set the stage for relationship behavior throughout life in regards to school, employment, peer, and pregnancy prevention. The teaching of heathy relationships and Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) in RE programs can foster social skills by bringing together peer groups, teaching communication and conflict skills, and teaching teens to set boundaries.
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2014-02-19T07:00:00
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City/County
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http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/snippets/508%20documents/healthyrelationshipswebinar…
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2014-02-19

Webinar Materials: How to Select an Evidence-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program that Works for You!

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In this webinar, Child Trends, through the Office of Adolescent Health (OAH), discussed how to select evidence-based prevention programs and why it is important to select the right teen pregnancy prevention (TPP) program. The programs in the OAH database have undergone rigorous evaluation and have been shown to be effective at preventing teen pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and/or sexual risk behaviors. These programs have effectively identified needs - or a lack of some resource, tool, or program - that puts adolescents at a disadvantage or at risk for negative health or social outcomes. By identifying the needs, the right prevention program can be selected through use of the OAH database.
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2015-02-05T07:00:00
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City/County
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https://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/resources-and-training/online-learning-modules/how-…
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2015-02-02