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Issue No #42, October 26, 2006 
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Issue No #41, August 10, 2006
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Issue No #40, May 24, 2006
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1  Building the Workforce of the Future in Health Care
- Invisible No Longer: Advancing the Entry-level Workforce in Health Care
- Creating Careers, Improving Care
- Community Health Worker Advancement: A Research Summary
- An Innovative Approach to Developing Entry-Level Workers
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6 Achieving the Dream
- State Work Plans
- Articulation, Alignment, and the Challenge of College-Readiness
- State Policy and Advocacy for Student Success
- Focus Magazine
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12 From Our Friends
- Ready for College and Ready for Work: Same or Different?
- The Progress of P-16 Collaboration in the States
- Approaches to Measuring and Tracking Career Advancement
- Results That Matter: 21st Century Skills and High School Reform
- Wising Up: How Government Can Partner With Business to Increase Skills and Advance Low-Wage Workers
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1 Building the Workforce of the Future in Health Care
A capable, diverse health care workforce is critical to the health of all Americans. Increasingly, the most distinctive workforce development activities in health care are emerging through large, multi-sector partnerships, backed by public or private funders. JFF participates in a number of such partnerships, including Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for Quality Care, an initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in collaboration with the Hitachi Foundation, and Investing in Workforce Intermediaries (see #5 below).
Three new JFF reports grow out of our work to create opportunities for low-income workers to advance, while improving the quality of care for all Americans:
- Invisible No Longer: Advancing the Entry-Level Workforce in Health Care, funded by the Hitachi Foundation, explores workforce development practices in which there is progress, suggests where further investments would pay dividends, and provides several emerging lessons.
- Creating Careers, Improving Care, commissioned by the Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation, presents the findings from JFF’s research into strategies for recruiting, retaining, and advancing CNAs.
- Community Health Worker Advancement: A Research Summary, funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, recommends ways to apply the SkillWorks Workforce Partnership model to career advancement for community health workers.
- An Innovative Approach To Developing Entry-Level Workers: This article in Insights, published by the Northeast Human Resources Association, describes an effort to help long-term care employers and their community college partners to develop comprehensive CNA-to-LPN career ladder programs.
These publications, along with descriptions of JFF’s Health Care Initiatives, are available on the JFF Web site.
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2 Building a 21st Century Workforce: A Forum with the Candidates for Governor of Massachusetts
On June 29, SkillWorks: Partners for a Productive Workforce is sponsoring Building a 21st Century Workforce: A Forum on Jobs and Opportunity. The candidates for Governor of Massachusetts will give their strategies for:
- Creating and keeping jobs for Massachusetts residents;
- Providing Massachusetts adults with opportunities to develop the skills needed to succeed in jobs that can support a family; and
- Keeping Massachusetts competitive.
The forum is organized in partnership with Workforce Solutions Group and Jobs for the Future.
SkillWorks is an ambitious effort on the part of philanthropy, government, community organizations, unions, and employers to create a workforce development system that helps low-skill, low-income residents move to family-sustaining jobs and helps employers find and retain skilled employees.
More information on Building a 21st Century Workforce and online registration are available on the SkillWorks Web site.
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3 Breaking Through: Helping Low-Skilled Adults Enter and Succeed in College and Careers
In April, Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland hosted the second peer learning meeting of the Breaking Through initiative. Attending the meeting were representatives of all 16 Breaking Through colleges and the newly launched Breaking Through initiative in North Carolina, along with other leaders in the community college field. Also attending were staff from JFF and the National Council for Workforce Education, which are partners in the initiative, and the initiative funders, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation. The meeting explored roles that community colleges can play in helping low-skilled adults gain the skills and credentials they need to obtain family-supporting careers.
Information on Breaking Through and resources from the peer learning meeting are available on the JFF Web site.
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4 2006 MetLife Community College Excellence Awards Honoring Indian River Community College and LaGuardia Community College
Indian River Community College in Fort Pierce, Florida, and LaGuardia Community College, in Long Island City, New York, are the winners of the 2006 MetLife Foundation Community College Excellence Awards. The winners were announced in Long Beach on April 23 at the 2006 annual convention of the American Association of Community Colleges.
The MetLife Awards honor excellence in promoting educational and economic advancement for young people and adults who do not traditionally have access to higher education. Each finalist combines determined leadership, innovative programming, and attention to outcomes throughout the college, leading to clear improvements in meeting the varied learning needs of low-income, first-generation, immigrant, and working students.
Strategies for Success, which draws on the experience of the seven finalists for the 2004 MetLife Foundation Community College Excellence Award, is now available. It presents promising examples from community colleges dedicated to helping underprepared youth and adults succeed in college and careers, highlighting practices and strategies in three areas:
- Recruitment and outreach: enrolling the underserved;
- Developmental education: getting students ready for college success; and
- Student support services: from access to success.
Information on the 2006 MetLife Award Winners and Strategies for Success are available on the JFF Web site.
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5 Investing in Workforce Intermediaries: Profiles of Project Sites
The Annie E. Casey, Ford, and Rockefeller foundations have launched Investing in Workforce Intermediaries to seed a national support infrastructure for workforce intermediaries. The funders have invested in five cities and one state: Austin, Baltimore, Boston, New York City, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco.
Workforce intermediaries have three ambitious objectives:
- Increase access to good jobs through education and training;
- Improve the quality of entry-level jobs through career ladder programs that include support services and other forms of assistance; and
- Help employers and communities create good jobs by strengthening business competitiveness and linking workers’ skill improvements to economic development.
The Investing In Workforce Intermediaries sites are changing the way communities meet the skills needs of workers and businesses. Summaries of the work of each the sites are available on the JFF Web site.
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6 Achieving the Dream
Achieving the Dream is a national initiative that promotes change to improve student success at community colleges. The initiative works on multiple fronts and emphasizes the use of data to drive change. Achieving the Dream is funded by Lumina Foundation for Education, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, and the Nellie Mae Education Foundation. JFF coordinates the initiative's effort to improve state policies in seven states.
- State Work Plans: Plans for 2006 for the following Achieving the Dream states are now available for Florida, New Mexico, Texas, and Virginia.
Download Achieving the Dream State Work Plans.
- Articulation, Alignment, and the Challenge of College-Readiness:
In testimony to the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, JFF’s
Richard Kazis presented four main policy recommendations based on the
Achieving the Dream experience: strengthen longitudinal student data
systems; encourage additional indicators of student progress,
particularly for underprepared students; remove obstacles to collecting
data on transfer students’ progress; and provide support for state and
institutional research capacity.
Articulation, Alignment, and the Challenge of College-Readiness is available on the JFF Web site.
- State Policy and Advocacy for Student Success: “Although the patterns for funding for community colleges vary greatly from state to state,” writes JFF’s Richard Kazis in the April/May issue of Community College Journal, “colleges in most states derive somewhere near half of their institutional funding from state budgets. Not surprisingly, then, what transpires in the halls of state government is of great interest to community college leaders.”
State Policy and Advocacy for Student Success is available on the JFF Web site.
You can also order Community College Journal from their Web site.
- Lumina Foundation Focus Magazine: The winter issue, which is devoted to community colleges, features Achieving the Dream.
Focus is available on the Lumina Foundation for Education Web site.
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7 Accelerated Learning: Shaping Public Policy to Serve Underrepresented Youth
On June 8-9, the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education and Jobs for the Future are hosting Accelerated Learning: Shaping Public Policy To Serve Underrepresented Youth, a national policy forum.
Accelerated learning courses and programs are growing in number across the nation, and they hold promise as a pathway for low-income and racial/ethnic minorities to increase their access to and success in higher education. This national meeting will examine key policy issues related to accelerated learning options, such as Advanced Placement, dual/concurrent enrollment, early college high schools, and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program.
More information on the Accelerated Learning policy forum and online registration are available on the JFF Web site.
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8 WINs at Workforce Innovations 2006: Regional Strategies...Global Results
JFF will have a strong presence at Workforce Innovations 2006: Regional Strategies...Global Results: Talent Driving Prosperity, cosponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration and the American Society for Training & Development. From July 11 to July 13, in Anaheim, California, local, state, and national workforce leaders and their partners will sort through issues and confront the workforce challenges facing our country.
JFF, a silver sponsor of Workforce Innovations 2006, will announce the Career Advancement Portfolio, a collaborative effort to enhance, expand, and disseminate proven solutions for advancing low-income people to good jobs. Representatives from organizations highlighted in the Portfolio will be on hand to present their model programs.
As a partner in Workforce Innovation Networks—WINs—JFF is participating in two other conference events:
- Business Taking Action To Secure Skilled Workers. On July 11, Workforce Innovation Networks—WINs—will conduct a pre-conference event. Employer organization executives who are successfully implementing innovative public/private partnerships will provide extensive, one-on-one instruction on such topics as: building regional alliances with employer organizations; developing and providing effective business services; and more.
More information and online registration is available on the Center for Workforce Preparation Web site.
- How to Connect to Employers: Talk to the Experts! This interactive learning lab will highlight the successful models developed through the WINs project and how employer intermediaries, WIBs, and One-Stops are developing integrated economic and workforce development strategies to enhance their communities' economic success. Several local WINs sites will be on hand to provide technical assistance and customized support to session participants, with WINs partners facilitating the process.
WINs is a partnership of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Workforce Preparation; the Center for Workforce Success of the Manufacturing Institute, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Association of Manufacturers; and JFF.
More information on Workforce Innovations 2006 is available on the conference Web site.
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9 Teaching in the Early College High School Initiative
When Dr. Marcia Glick of LaGuardia Community College began a partnership with the Early College High School Initiative in 2002, she writes, "I had a number of questions about the viability of including secondary students in the postsecondary classroom. Could the high school adolescents adapt to the college environment? Would they be able to 'fit in' and become college freshmen?" In this article, she addresses these and other questions. The bottom line: "Can Early College students excel in the college classroom? Yes."
Teaching in the Early College High School Initiative is available on the on the JFF Web site.
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10 Stand Up: Demanding Excellent Schools
JFF has joined STAND UP, a national, multi-year community-based campaign for excellent high schools that prepare all students for future success. Comprised of more than 50 organizations throughout the country, the effort is committed to enlisting the support of the American people in tackling America's education crisis. The multi-pronged effort will include print and television advertising, a Web site with resources for parents and concerned citizens to become engaged in education improvement efforts, and local campaign events around the country. STAND UP is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other national organizations.
To help mobilize Americans to demand change, the STAND UP Web site provides valuable information, guidance, and tools for parents, guardians, and concerned citizens to support students and excellent high schools in every community. The Web site also provides information about the state of the nation’s high schools and offers specific ways for people to become a part of the solution.
More information is available on the STAND UP Web site.
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11 College Readiness Roundtable
The College Readiness Roundtable is a forum for discussion and action involving a multi-disciplinary team of policy experts - including JFF co-founder and vice chair Hilary Pennington - who are committed to addressing the challenge of transforming our high schools so that all students graduate ready for college, work and beyond.
The Roundtable:
- Identifies and analyzes emerging policy issues that may impact high school graduation and college-readiness rates;
- Promotes discussion and policy-oriented action on those issues; and
- Shares knowledge and viewpoints with policymakers and educators who are positioned to influence policies that will improve college ready graduation rates.
More information is available on the College Readiness Web site.
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12 From Our Friends
This brief from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Jobs Initiative focuses on the data side of career advancement and the issues and challenges facing workforce providers in setting targets and collecting and reporting data.
This report from the Center for Law and Social Policy examines five training partnerships in which states and local governments partner with business and industry to train workers and encourage the creation and retention of good jobs.
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Issue No #39, March 30, 2006
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Issue No #38, January 18, 2006
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