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Three resources in Workforce System Strategies (WSS) highlight effective and promising initiatives designed to support individuals with specific challenges to employment. Learn more about individual placement and supports that help increase...

Four resources from Workforce System Strategies (WSS) highlight approaches for employers to promote and implement inclusive employment practices. Learn more about how community-based organizations can implement career bridge programs, the use and...

Explores the promise of Alternative Staffing Organizations (ASOs) to understand how these businesses assist disadvantaged workers by coupling job brokering with supportive services to enhance workforce development.

Tests the Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14) in capturing the state of a person’s psychological empowerment, motivation, skills and resources, and goal-orientation as a factor in workforce development.

Offers an overview of career and technical education (CTE) as an educational strategy for providing young people with the academic, technical, and employability skills and knowledge to pursue postsecondary training or higher education and enter a...

Services provided were not enough to lift young mothers out of poverty or end welfare-dependency, and the impacts faded after the programs ended.

The imperative for all employers wanting to hire veterans with disabilities involves translating goodwill into sound disability inclusive workplace practices that will lead to the successful and sustained employment of veterans with disabilities.

Assesses the Aging Workers Initiative, which aimed to build the capacity of the public workforce investment system to serve older individuals.

Finds that attainment of a credential through participation in WIA’s Dislocated Worker Program resulted in improved employment and wage changes for older workers as compared to those who were not credentialed.

Toolkit provides answers and resources to help Veterans find and obtain employment, as well as advance their civilian careers.