Funding Career Pathways: A Federal Funding Toolkit for States

The career pathways approach can improve fragmented and broken educational pipelines. The approach links education and training services to help students advance to higher levels of education and employment in a given sector. The career pathways framework combines adult education, training, and postsecondary programs and connects those with employers’ needs. This toolkit, developed by the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), is intended to help interagency state teams identify and use federal resources to support career pathways models. It also includes summaries of various federal programs that may strengthen states’ career pathways initiatives by providing more ways to obtain support services for students.