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Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways – Lessons from Toward's Employment's WorkAdvance Initiative

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2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern

In this webinar, Towards Employment, a community-based nonprofit organization in Cleveland, OH, will share three innovations in programming developed through WorkAdvance initiative, a regional sector-specific career pathway program in manufacturing led by Towards Employment. Drawing on case studies developed through a Strategic Venture Fund grant from the National Network of Sector Partners (NNSP), Towards Employment will highlight the role that it has played in (1) an industry association partnership that led to accelerated outcomes; (2) a training cohort customization that increased access to training for low-skill individuals; and (3) a partnership with a local business to create a strategy for low-wage incumbent worker up-skilling and backfill with candidates from distressed neighborhoods. Each of the efforts highlighted broadened career pathway access through deeper collaborative partnerships and created additional advancement opportunities for low-wage and low-skill participants, and each case study will present realistic, complex, and contextually rich situations that showcase specific sector partnership opportunities that the WorkAdvance team leveraged to advance programming.

Panelists:

• Rebecca Kusner, Director of Policy and Special Initiatives, Towards Employment

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Wednesday, December 3
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Apprenticeships: Lessons from Partners for a Competitive Workforce
Thursday, December 4
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Apprenticeships: Policy and Practice Lessons from WRTP/BIG STEP
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	“Fair Chance” Practices to Support Employment of People with Criminal Records
Friday, December 5
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Dealing with "The New Scarlet Letter": What Research Tells Us about Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Criminal Records – Lessons from Per Scholas and New Century Careers
Tuesday, December 9
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from JobsFirstNYC’s Young Adult Sectoral Employment Project (YASEP)
Wednesday, December 10
10:00am to 11:30am Pacific 1:00pm to 2:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from Per Scholas and District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund
Thursday, December 11
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways - Policy Lessons from the Alliance for Quality Career Pathways
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways – Lessons from Towards Employment's WorkAdvance Initiative
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Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways – Policy Lessons from the Alliance for Quality Career Pathways

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12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern

The Alliance for Quality Career Pathways, led by the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), has worked with partners in ten leading career pathway states to establish a common understanding of quality career pathways and systems – a framework that explicitly incorporates elements of the sector approach and provides a basis for integration of the two models. In this webinar, representatives of CLASP and the National Network of Sector Partners (NNSP) will share the characteristic strengths of sector initiatives and career pathways, and how these strengths can be combined for the benefit of both workers and their employers. Then, leaders from two participating states – California and Oregon – will share information about policy and practice in their states that support a sector-based career pathways approach in the context of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and the increasing importance of the sector and career pathways models.

Panelists:

• Judy Mortrude, Director, Alliance for Quality Career Pathways, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
• Shalee Hodgson, Education Division Director, Community Colleges and Workforce Development, State of Oregon
• Van Ton-Quinlivan, Vice Chancellor of Workforce and Economic Development, California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
• Jim Torrens, Program Manager, National Network of Sector Partners (NNSP), Insight Center for Community Economic Development

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Wednesday, December 3
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Apprenticeships: Lessons from Partners for a Competitive Workforce
Thursday, December 4
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Apprenticeships: Policy and Practice Lessons from WRTP/BIG STEP
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	“Fair Chance” Practices to Support Employment of People with Criminal Records
Friday, December 5
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Dealing with "The New Scarlet Letter": What Research Tells Us about Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Criminal Records – Lessons from Per Scholas and New Century Careers
Tuesday, December 9
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from JobsFirstNYC’s Young Adult Sectoral Employment Project (YASEP)
Wednesday, December 10
10:00am to 11:30am Pacific 1:00pm to 2:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from Per Scholas and District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund
Thursday, December 11
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways - Policy Lessons from the Alliance for Quality Career Pathways
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways – Lessons from Towards Employment's WorkAdvance Initiative
New sessions and speakers are still being added. To stay informed about the virtual conference and other news of interest to sector initiatives, subscribe to NNSP’s free updates now.

 

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Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from Per Scholas and District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund

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1:00pm to 2:30pm Eastern

Well-implemented sector initiatives have been proven through rigorous, random-assignment research to increase the earnings of their participants – including specifically for youth. Young adult participants at Per Scholas, a sector initiative providing IT skills training in the Bronx, NY, earned 45% ($6,625) more than randomly-selected controls during the second year of the two-year study. In Philadelphia, the District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund has developed a model sector initiative to introduce young people to careers in healthcare. In this webinar we will learn from both Per Scholas and the District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund about their youth-serving sector programs, how they work, and the outcomes they have achieved for young people.

Panelists:

• Angie Kamath, Executive Director, Per Scholas
• Cheryl Feldman, Executive Director, District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund
• Makeeda Holley, Director of Workforce Development, District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund

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Wednesday, December 3
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Apprenticeships: Lessons from Partners for a Competitive Workforce
Thursday, December 4
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Apprenticeships: Policy and Practice Lessons from WRTP/BIG STEP
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	“Fair Chance” Practices to Support Employment of People with Criminal Records
Friday, December 5
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Dealing with "The New Scarlet Letter": What Research Tells Us about Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Criminal Records – Lessons from Per Scholas and New Century Careers
Tuesday, December 9
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from JobsFirstNYC’s Young Adult Sectoral Employment Project (YASEP)
Wednesday, December 10
10:00am to 11:30am Pacific 1:00pm to 2:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from Per Scholas and District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund
Thursday, December 11
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways - Policy Lessons from the Alliance for Quality Career Pathways
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways – Lessons from Towards Employment's WorkAdvance Initiative
New sessions and speakers are still being added. To stay informed about the virtual conference and other news of interest to sector initiatives, subscribe to NNSP’s free updates now.

 

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Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from JobsFirstNYC’s Young Adult Sectoral Employment Project (YASEP)

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2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern

In this webinar, participants will learn about the Young Adult Sectoral Employment Project (YASEP), an initiative of JobsFirstNYC that is accelerating opportunities to successfully connect out-of-work and out-of-school young adults to the economic life of New York City. YASEP has provided resources (both financial and technical assistance) to five pilot sites to plan and implement youth-serving sector initiatives in healthcare, transportation, the food industry, IT, and employment at the Bronx Zoo. In this webinar, participants will learn how the YASEP initiative builds on the five common programmatic characteristics of effective sector initiatives and what the project has learned about applying the sector approach to employment for out-of-work and out-of-school young adults.

Panelists:

• Lou Miceli, Executive Director, JobsFirstNYC
• Keri Faulhaber, Project and Operations Director, JobsFirstNYC

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Wednesday, December 3
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Apprenticeships: Lessons from Partners for a Competitive Workforce
Thursday, December 4
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Apprenticeships: Policy and Practice Lessons from WRTP/BIG STEP
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	“Fair Chance” Practices to Support Employment of People with Criminal Records
Friday, December 5
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Dealing with "The New Scarlet Letter": What Research Tells Us about Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Criminal Records – Lessons from Per Scholas and New Century Careers
Tuesday, December 9
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from JobsFirstNYC’s Young Adult Sectoral Employment Project (YASEP)
Wednesday, December 10
10:00am to 11:30am Pacific 1:00pm to 2:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from Per Scholas and District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund
Thursday, December 11
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways - Policy Lessons from the Alliance for Quality Career Pathways
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways – Lessons from Towards Employment's WorkAdvance Initiative
New sessions and speakers are still being added. To stay informed about the virtual conference and other news of interest to sector initiatives, subscribe to NNSP’s free updates now.

 

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Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Criminal Records – Lessons from Per Scholas and New Century Careers

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2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern

Over the last two decades, sectoral employment has emerged as a proven approach to workforce development that results in unemployed and underskilled workers earning significantly more, increasing their likelihood of consistent work, and working in jobs with higher wages and benefits. Sector initiatives have been shown to be effective with a wide range of job-seekers and workers, including people with criminal records. An impact study of sector initiatives performed by Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) showed that people with criminal records who participated in mature, well-implemented sector initiatives earned on average $5,947 more (and, in one initiative, as much as $11,522 more) than a randomly-selected control group with similar characteristics over a twenty-four month period. In this webinar, you will hear from one of the sector initiatives studied (Per Scholas) about how they achieved these results for participants with a significant barrier to employment – their criminal record. You will also hear about a model partnership between a manufacturing sector initiative and a jails collaborative to provide formerly incarcerated people the training and supports they need to get good jobs – and to work with employers to hire them.

Panelists:

• Plinio Ayala, President & CEO, Per Scholas
• Kelly Richardson, Vice President of Operations, Per Scholas
• Paul Anselmo, President, New Century Careers
• Amy Kent, Training Team Member, New Century Careers
• Kathy McCauley, Principal, McCauley Consulting
• Amy Kroll, Administrator of Re-entry Services, Allegheny County Jail

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Wednesday, December 3
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Apprenticeships: Lessons from Partners for a Competitive Workforce
Thursday, December 4
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Apprenticeships: Policy and Practice Lessons from WRTP/BIG STEP
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	“Fair Chance” Practices to Support Employment of People with Criminal Records
Friday, December 5
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Dealing with "The New Scarlet Letter": What Research Tells Us about Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Criminal Records – Lessons from Per Scholas and New Century Careers
Tuesday, December 9
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from JobsFirstNYC’s Young Adult Sectoral Employment Project (YASEP)
Wednesday, December 10
10:00am to 11:30am Pacific 1:00pm to 2:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from Per Scholas and District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund
Thursday, December 11
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways - Policy Lessons from the Alliance for Quality Career Pathways
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways – Lessons from Towards Employment's WorkAdvance Initiative
New sessions and speakers are still being added. To stay informed about the virtual conference and other news of interest to sector initiatives, subscribe to NNSP’s free updates now.

 

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Dealing with "The New Scarlet Letter": What Research Tells Us about Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record

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12:00pm to 1:30pm

In this webinar, author and U.C. Berkeley professor of public policy Stephen Raphael will share relevant highlights from his book The New Scarlet Letter?: Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record. Key topics will include what is known about impact of criminal records and incarceration on people’s employment prospects, including employers’ perceptions of former inmates, and about the effectiveness of programs to help connect these job-seekers with employment. Professor Raphael will also share observations about the implications of increasing levels of incarceration and background checks on the U.S. labor market, including disparities in employment by race and ethnicity, and policy recommendations to improve employment prospects for formerly incarcerated people and those with criminal records.

Speaker:

• Steven Raphael, Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

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Wednesday, December 3
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Apprenticeships: Lessons from Partners for a Competitive Workforce
Thursday, December 4
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Apprenticeships: Policy and Practice Lessons from WRTP/BIG STEP
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	“Fair Chance” Practices to Support Employment of People with Criminal Records
Friday, December 5
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Dealing with "The New Scarlet Letter": What Research Tells Us about Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Criminal Records – Lessons from Per Scholas and New Century Careers
Tuesday, December 9
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from JobsFirstNYC’s Young Adult Sectoral Employment Project (YASEP)
Wednesday, December 10
10:00am to 11:30am Pacific 1:00pm to 2:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Youth – Lessons from Per Scholas and District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund
Thursday, December 11
9:00am to 10:30am Pacific 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways - Policy Lessons from the Alliance for Quality Career Pathways
11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern	Sector Initiatives and Career Pathways – Lessons from Towards Employment's WorkAdvance Initiative
New sessions and speakers are still being added. To stay informed about the virtual conference and other news of interest to sector initiatives, subscribe to NNSP’s free updates now.

 

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