workforce Publications

Community Colleges Get to Work: Adopting Work-Based Learning in Partnership with Health Care Employers (August 2010)
The nation’s rising demand for health care is creating a need for more frontline workers who provide direct services to patients. Effective training progr... read more
Supervisors Stepping Up: Supporting the Learning of Frontline Workers in Health Care (August 2010)
The quality of our nation’s health care depends on the quality of our frontline workers. Those who are well compensated, well supervised, and well trained... read more
The Intersection of State Regulations and Work-Based Learning: A Case Study on Addressing Regulatory Barriers to an Innovative Strategy for Worker Advancement (August 2010)
States establish and enforce regulations to protect the public interest. Yet state rule-making can impose unintended barriers to innovation because regulators c... read more
Self-Assessment Tools: Organizational Readiness for Implementing a Work-Based Learning or Career Pathways Program (August 2010)
These tools will help two types of partner assess their readiness for implementing innovations in the area of work-based learning and career pathway initiatives... read more
Frontline Voices: Reflection on Jobs to Careers (VIDEO) (August 2010)
This video is a success story of how Jobs to Careers has helped an assisted living facility in Portland, Oregon advance its frontline staff and provide better c... read more
Vision 2020: Creating Opportunity for America's Next Generation (July 2010)
To help the nation compete globally, JFF has committed to a goal for the next decade that many of our partners and funders—and President Ob... read more
Information on Addressing Barriers to Employment for Low-Skilled Workers (June 2010)
The National Fund for Workforce Solutions has prepared information sheets on ways to address four common barriers to labor market success for low-skilled worker... read more
Bringing the Front Lines to the Forefront: A National Conversation on the Critical Need to Invest in Workers on the Front Lines of Health Care (July 2010)
In March 2010, JFF hosted two working meetings that brought attention to an often-overlooked issue central to the quality, access, and affordabil... read more
RX for an Economy in Recovery: Moving Good Practice to Scale (May 2010)
Published in the May/June issue of Solutions, published by Workforce Marketing: As our country works its way out of the deepest economic downturn since the Grea... read more
Adult Education and Literacy and the Workforce Investment Act (May 2010)
On May 4, 2010, six national organizations, including JFF, wrote to key U.S. senators and representatives with advice on improving the educational and economic ... read more