Expanding the CareerAdvance® Program in Tulsa, Oklahoma

"CareerAdvance® began in Tulsa in 2009 as the parent training portion of a two‐generation strategy to end the cycle of poverty in families with a child enrolled in Head Start or Early Head Start. The driving theory of change behind Career Advance® was that family economic success would protect and enhance gains made through high‐quality early childhood programs even after children transition into the public school system. The program was operated by the Community Action Project of Tulsa County (CAP), an antipoverty agency with a highly successful record in growing pilot programs into effective large‐scale initiatives… This report reviewed the progress of CareerAdvance® at the end of its initial year of operations” (p.iv). (Abstractor: Author)

“Early signs indicate that CareerAdvance® is succeeding with high rates of completion. Among 54 participants enrolling in the… nursing track in the first four cohorts, 50 completed CAN 1 and passed the CAN exam to become certified. No… participants have dropped out of the LPN program… This 100 percent persistence rate to date compares favorably with a 33 percent overall completion rate for Tulsa Tech’s LPN program in 2009–2010… Employers have responded favorably to… participants” (p.45). Additional findings are described on pages 45–47 of the report. (Abstractor: Author and Website Staff)

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• Resource Publication Date: 2012
• Author(s): Glover, Robert W.; King, Christopher T.; Carter Smith, Tara
• Organizational Author(s): The Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources at the University of Texas at Austin
• Funding Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), George Kaiser Family Foundation
• Resource Availability: Publicly available
• Posted by: Wesley Peterson
• Posted in: Workforce System Strategies