Bipartisan Reentry and Employment Briefing Presentation - The Reentry Employment Opportunities Benchmarking Study

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This presentation highlights observations and findings from a yearlong study of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Reentry Employment Opportunities (REO) grant programs, with a focus on strategies for connecting justice-involved youth and adult returning citizens to work, education, and training programs. The presentation, given by ICF International at a congressional briefing on reentry and employment hosted by the Union Theological Seminary, provides a high-level overview of the study’s key findings, methods, existing research bases and promising practices in the areas of career pathways, assessment and case management, and justice collaborations.
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2016-03-31T20:00:00
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City/County
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https://www.icf.com/perspectives/presentations/2016/bipartisan-reentry-and-empl…
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2016-04-01

Transforming Lives with Summer Youth Job Opportunities

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This blog post from the Office of Public and Indian Housing highlights the Summer Opportunity Project, a federal interagency initiative to connect youth with employment and education in communities across the United States. The post provides success stories from youth around the country and notes how the Summer Opportunity Project has helped them thrive.
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2016-05-15T20:00:00
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City/County
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http://blog.hud.gov/index.php/2016/05/16/transforming-lives-with-summer-youth-j…
Publication Date
2016-05-16

Career Pathways Leading Improved Services

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This blog post from the Administration for Children and Families provides a discussion of Career Pathways, which are a promising solution to help Americans acquire marketable and in-demand skills through integrated programs and services for students and job seekers transitioning from education to employment. In April 2012, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services formed a federal partnership and issued a joint letter of commitment. The partnership helps promote the use of career pathways to assist youth and adults in acquiring valuable skills and credentials through better alignment with employers, educational institutions, training and employment providers, and human and social service agencies. Building on that work, ACF has expanded support to multiple agencies to foster better coordination of programs and services.
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ACF Blog Spotlight
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2016-05-08T20:00:00
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City/County
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/blog/2016/05/career-pathways-leading-improved-services
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2016-05-09

Characteristics and Financial Circumstances of TANF Recipients, Fiscal Year 2014

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The Office of Family Assistance (OFA) has posted Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Separate State Program Maintenance of Effort (SSP-MOE) Characteristics data for fiscal year (FY) 2014. The tables provide national- and state-level data for FY 2014 of TANF program recipients by characteristics and financial circumstances. The tables include demographic data on the age, gender, and race/ethnicity of children and adults in TANF families for active and closed cases.
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2016-03-24T20:00:00
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City/County
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/resource/characteristics-and-financial-circumstances…
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2016-03-25

What You Need to Know About WIOA, the New Workforce Legislation, Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness, Annual Training Institute

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This presentation from the Heartland Alliance provides an overview of WIOA and how the legislation can open doors to employment for homeless jobseekers and other youth and adults that face barriers to employment.

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2016-05-11T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://renniecenter.issuelab.org/resource/what_you_need_to_know_about_wioa_the_…
Publication Date
2016-05-12

Webinar Slides: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA): Translate, Innovate, and Collaborate

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These slides are from a webinar hosted by the Corporation for Supportive Housing that featured the National Initiatives team, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, CLASP, and Workforce Solutions Texas. The webinar gave an overview of WIOA, identified strategies for collaborating with local workforce investment boards, and discussed how the WIOA legislation presents opportunities for homeless service providers to increase employment outcomes for homeless jobseekers.

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2015-10-01T08:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://nationalinitiatives.issuelab.org/resource/webinar_slides_workforce_innov…
Publication Date
2015-10-01

TANF Questions and Answers Related to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Combined and Unified Plans

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This Q&A from the Office of Family Assistance covers topics related to submitting a WIOA state plan, making amendments to the plan, renewing a TANF plan, approving a WIOA plan, and governor opt-out. It also highlights resources for additional guidance from the Department of Labor.

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2016-04-27T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/resource/q-a-tanf-and-wioa
Publication Date
2016-04-28

Collective Impact

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This article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review talks about how social welfare programs can better collaborate and coordinate efforts to collectively address complex social problems. The article shares a conceptual framework on how different systems and programs can best align objectives and service delivery programs toward common community goals.
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2010-12-31T19:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://ssir.org/articles/entry/collective_impact
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2011-01-01

Measuring Client Well-Being: A Toolkit for Counties and Community-Based Organizations

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This toolkit, created through Colorado’s Work Support Strategies (WSS) grant, is designed to help county and community-based organizations define, measure, and use well-being metrics to improve services and achieve outcomes. It includes a “how to” section that organizations can follow to change their practices and measure client outcomes rather than program outputs.
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2016-03-31T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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SFS Sites
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City/County
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http://outcomes.ascend.aspeninstitute.org/resource/measuring-client-well-toolki…
Publication Date
2016-04-01

Helping Noncustodial Parents Support Their Children: Early Implementation Findings from the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration Evaluation

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This early implementation report by the Institute for Research on Poverty and Mathematica Policy Research provides interim findings from the Office of Child Support Enforcement’s (OCSE) Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration Project (CSPED), which began in Fall 2012 and ends in September 2017. The project is tracking activity and outcomes of CSPED programs in eight states. Child Support agencies in each state are providing enhanced child support services, employment assistance, parenting education, and case management services for noncustodial parents who experience difficulty meeting their child support obligations. The report looks at the first two years of CSPED, which consisted of a planning year and one year of program operations.
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2015-08-31T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://www.irp.wisc.edu/research/childsup/csped/pdfs/CSPEDInterImpl2015%20Compl…
Publication Date
2015-09-01