Office of Family Assistance Information Memorandum: Supporting Career Pathways for TANF Recipients

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The Office of Family Assistance (OFA) published an Information Memorandum (IM) about opportunities for state and tribal TANF agencies to incorporate career pathways approaches, including how they can count toward the agency’s work participation rate requirement. The IM shares examples of TANF agencies that have partnered with community colleges and other stakeholders to provide TANF recipients with the education, training, and support they need to obtain careers in high-demand fields.
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Posting Date
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2016-10-19T20:00:00
Source
Region
City/County
URL
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/resource/tanf-acf-im-2016-05
Publication Date
2016-10-20

Integrated Education and Training: Model Programs for Building Career Pathways for Participants at Every Skill Level

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The most recent WIOA regulations described how education and workforce development partners can design and implement a key strategy in career pathways: Integrated Education and Training (IET). IET programs are designed to help participants seek goal-oriented, practical knowledge. This publication from CLASP provides examples of successful IET programs and includes resources for state and local leaders interested in utilizing IET promising practices in their communities.
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Posting Date
Combined Date
2016-07-31T20:00:00
Source
OFA Initiatives
Region
City/County
URL
http://www.clasp.org/resources-and-publications/publication-1/WIOA-IET-Model-Pr…
Publication Date
2016-08-01

Webinar Materials: Bridging the Gap Between Adult Education and Careers

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This webinar, sponsored by the Pathways to Careers Network and presented by Women Employed and the Chicago Jobs Council, reviewed Career Foundations: Making Your Education Work for You. This new tool is designed to connect adult education with careers and increase the number of transitions to postsecondary education. This tool provides low-skilled adults connections to local occupational and academic programs to increase economic opportunity.
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Posting Date
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2015-02-23T07:00:00
Source
OFA Initiatives
SFS Category
Region
City/County
URL
View Webinar Recording
Publication Date
2015-02-23

Webinar Materials: Emerging Instructional Models and Strategies for Adult Basic Learners

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This Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) webinar, presented by the U.S. Department of Education and Abt Associates, presents findings from an international assessment of basic skills and provides promising instructional models for adult basic skills education and promising strategies for healthcare training programs.
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Posting Date
Combined Date
2015-05-15T08:00:00
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Region
City/County
URL
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/resource/hpog-basic-skills-webinar
Publication Date
2015-05-15

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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Posting Date
Combined Date
2015-12-31T19:00:00
Source
OFA Initiatives
Region
City/County
URL
http://lincs.ed.gov/programs/acp
Publication Date
2016-01-01

Helping Low-Income Adults Achieve College Success: Analysis of Career Pathways Program Study Participants

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This blog post from the Administration for Children and Families provides an overview of the Pathways to Advancing Careers and Education study, which focuses on nine career pathways programs and looks at risk factors that prevent low-income students from achieving college success. For example, having better grades in high school predicted enrolling in college, staying in college, and earning credentials; and being able to devote time to full-time education, rather than having to work a high number of hours while enrolled in school, has at least as much influence as money on the likelihood of enrolling and persisting in college.
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ACF Blog Spotlight
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Posting Date
Combined Date
2016-08-03T20:00:00
Source
OFA Initiatives
Region
City/County
URL
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/blog/2016/08/helping-low-income-adults-achieve-college-s…
Publication Date
2016-08-04

The Arkansas Career Pathways Initiative: Phase One Research Results

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Since 2006, the Arkansas Career Pathways Initiative has used TANF funds to help eligible parents attend community and technical colleges across the state for education and training to prepare them for well-paying jobs in high-demand industries. This evaluation report from College Count$ details findings showing that over half of participating parents graduated college with an associate degree or technical certificate, which is more than twice the rate of their peers across Arkansas. Additionally, the study suggests that students enrolled in 2011 earned more than $3,000 annually in their first year after degree completion than their TANF counterparts in similar types of jobs.
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2016-05-01T20:00:00
Source
Region
City/County
URL
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/55784275e4b0b9063308b099/t/56fbf67d60b5e9…
Publication Date
2016-05-02

Shared Accountability in WIOA and Career Pathways

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This paper from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) provides a framework for understanding the full scope of shared accountability and is intended to promote discussion of how WIOA performance accountability provisions could be aligned to integrate service delivery for low-income, lower-skilled individuals.

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2014-11-30T19:00:00
Source
OFA Initiatives
Region
City/County
URL
http://www.clasp.org/resources-and-publications/publication-1/WIOA_sharedaccoun…
Publication Date
2014-12-01

Webinar Materials: WIOA Implementation: What Adult Education Practitioners Need to Know

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The National Skills Coalition (NSC) presented this webinar on September 15, 2015 in partnership with the Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE). The webinar addressed the current WIOA landscape and discussed opportunities for adult educators to weigh in on implementation issues in their states and localities.

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2015-09-01T08:00:00
Source
OFA Initiatives
Region
City/County
URL
http://www.nationalskillscoalition.org/resources/publications/wioa-implementati…
Publication Date
2015-09-01

A Tool for Sustaining Career Pathways Efforts

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This paper from RTI International outlines key considerations for implementing career pathways strategies and provides a checklist of action items that states or local communities can use to assess the status of their sustainability efforts. It draws from research on change management theory, which has produced strategies for sustaining organizational shifts, and presents lessons learned from states participating in the Advancing Career and Technical Education in State and Local Career Pathways Systems project, a three-year initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education..

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Posting Date
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2015-11-30T19:00:00
Source
OFA Initiatives
Region
City/County
URL
https://s3.amazonaws.com/PCRN/docs/Sustainability-Draft-03-Revised-0729153_Fina…
Publication Date
2015-12-01