From Competencies to Curriculum: Building Career Paths for Frontline Workers in Behavioral Health
From Competencies to Curriculum: Building Career Paths for Frontline Workers in Behavioral Health Workers on the front lines of behavioral health play a critical role in the care of people with mental illness, substance abuse…
The Next Challenge: Advancement of Low-Skilled, Low-Wage Workers
The Next Challenge: Advancement of Low-Skilled, Low-Wage Workers With the series Advancement for Low-Wage Workers , Jobs for the Future seeks to elevate discussion of this critical issue within and outside the workforce field. These…
Growing Their Own Skilled Workforces: Community Health Centers Benefit from Work-Based Learning for Frontline Employees
Growing Their Own Skilled Workforces: Community Health Centers Benefit from Work-Based Learning for Frontline Employees Health care reform calls for unprecedented investments in the nation’s community health centers, paving the way to serve millions more…
Jobs to Careers in Community-Based Care
Jobs to Careers in Community-Based Care A project in Oregon to improve the work of elder caregivers in community-based settings is a timely response to the convergence of several pressing factors: an aging population, growing…
Supervisors Stepping Up: Supporting the Learning of Frontline Workers in Health Care
Supervisors Stepping Up: Supporting the Learning of Frontline Workers in Health Care The quality of our nation’s health care depends on the quality of our frontline workers. Those who are well compensated, well supervised, and…
Providing Support for Community Colleges Now, and a Lever for Transformative Change
With JFF’s support of implementations of the Google IT Support Professional Certificate program, participating community colleges demonstrated that a competency-based curriculum could successfully help low-credentialed adults advance in the IT sector. With JFF’s support of…
Redesigning Training Programs for the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
Training and education will be key to helping displaced workers find stable jobs in the post-pandemic recovery, but programs need to be reimagined with equity at the forefront to ensure that they benefit everyone equally.…
Diversifying Apprenticeship: Acknowledging Unconscious Bias to Improve Employee Access
Promoting frontline workers to more senior positions is a great way to improve workforce diversity, but unconscious bias can prevent employees from getting the training they need to advance. Many corporate diversity efforts focus on…
Growing Opportunities in Manufacturing through Bilingual Upskilling
The bilingual GOAL training program provides opportunities for English Language Learners to progress in advanced manufacturing careers. The bilingual GOAL training program provides opportunities for English Language Learners to progress in advanced manufacturing careers. This…