WorkForce GPS is hosting a virtual event on June 18, 2024, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET. Presenters from South Carolina and Massachusetts will discuss their implementation strategies of bringing services to rural workers and employers, which has long been a challenge in the workforce development system.

The Child Welfare Community Collaborations (CWCC) initiative is designed to mobilize communities to develop and evaluate multi-system collaboratives that address local barriers and provide a continuum of services to prevent child abuse and neglect. This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) brief describes the approaches to collaborative partnerships used in CWCC projects and is one of a series of products the evaluation team will produce as part of the cross-site process evaluation. Throughout this brief, OPRE explores the community collaborations (i.e., “partnerships”) that were part of the foundation of the CWCC initiative’s approach to preventing child abuse and neglect.

Registered apprenticeship programs are industry-vetted and approved by either the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Apprenticeship (OA) or a federally recognized State Apprenticeship Agency (SAA) to ensure they meet criteria to maintain quality. This Urban Institute brief explores differences in the states’ apprenticeship approval timelines, number of programs registered, and how the occupations of registered programs vary by registration agency. Additionally, it explores differences between OA states and two types of SAA states: those in which the state agency has sole approval authority and those in which apprenticeship councils can approve programs.

On May 31, 2024, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announced a proposed rule to give state child support programs the flexibility to use federal funding to provide employment and training services for eligible noncustodial parents. Providing employment and training services to unemployed and underemployed parents who have child support obligations has proven to benefit children and their parents. These types of programs result in increased employment rates and earnings as well as the amount, number, and regularity of child support payments. This ACF press announcement explains how the proposed rule would allow state child support programs to use federal funding for services such as skills assessments, occupational training, and job placement. The deadline to submit comments via Regulations.gov is July 30, 2024.

Description: The National Association of Workforce Development Professionals will be hosting a four-part Summer Learning on Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Enhance Workforce Organizations, Productivity and Programs. Each session will feature practical knowledge, step-by-step implementation strategies, case studies, guest speakers and breakout room sessions.

1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality in Workforce Development will take place on June 27, 2024 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. CT;
2. Enhancing Workforce Productivity with Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality will take place on July 25, 2024 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. CT;
3. Using Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality for Immersive Customer and Employee Experiences will take place on August 29, 2024 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. CT; and
4. Strategies for Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Into Career Development will take place on September 26, 2024 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. CT.

There is a fee for participation for each session.

MDRC partnered with JPMorgan Chase to promote continual improvement among their Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) grantee organizations through research. SYEPs are a workforce development model predicated on promoting socioeconomic advancement for young people ages 14 to 24 who are disconnected from school or the labor market. MDRC collected data in the form of interviews and metrics aggregated and interviewed six SYEP providers to share specific insights about a particular program component—soft-skills training. “Soft skills” refer to the general habits and competencies that make for an effective employee, such as arriving at work on time, cooperating with coworkers, taking and giving direction, communicating clearly, dressing appropriately for the workplace, and so forth. This MDRC brief presents findings that showcase ways that soft-skills training, as a workforce development intervention, can put young people on the path to high-paying jobs and socioeconomic advancement.

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report presents the plan for evaluating the impacts of the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education project and the first round of Health Profession Opportunity Grants on key outcomes nine years after random assignment into the program.

The purpose of this resource is to document the study approach and publicly commit to specified outcomes in hypothesis testing and an estimation approach prior to inspecting treatment-control differences on newly collected data. It describes the operationalization of outcome measures, including their source data. It refers to prior documents for data, measures, and methods previously established for the evaluation.

The Survey of Household Economics and Decision-making is the survey from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for tracking the financial circumstances of low- and moderate-income families and potential risks to their financial health. This year’s survey continues to track key topics related to financial outcomes, such as the effects of inflation on household finances, emergency savings, housing, returns to education, and retirement. New topics have been added on food sufficiency, caregiving, employment of those with a previous arrest or conviction, and homeowners’ insurance.

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors will be hosting a virtual event on June 20, 2024 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET, where researchers will share findings from the survey on trends in financial well-being and answer any questions on the financial conditions among low- and moderate-income populations based on the survey results.

An estimated 377,000 children are living in foster care. This staggering number is a measure of how we as a nation are faring in our responsibility to ensure that every child in every community has the opportunity to grow up in their own family connected to the people, places and cultures that will help them thrive. This Casey Family report shares examples of how communities are actively partnering with families to build the foundations of a better approach, how they are using new tools and approaches to better address the needs of families and children, and how they are investing effectively to ensure thriving families, safer children and supportive communities.