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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...

Reports on the third year (2010) of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions (NFWS), which is an initiative of national and local funders (including Local Workforce Investment Boards) whose goal is the career advancement of low-wage workers using...

Provides a collection of practices, tools, and real world examples to support the development and capacity of reentry programs.

This toolkit was developed to help practitioners and their employer partners to assess the business value of their workforce services. The Business Value Assessment Toolkit includes a planning handbook, an automated Excel file for tracking...

Explores the crippling labor market for teens and makes a case for developing a comprehensive approach to job creation for this population.

The purpose of the evaluation was to determine the efficacy of the grantee's business intermediary model and the impact of the services delivered on the employment, earnings and retention of youth ex-offenders and youth at-risk of court or gang...

Measures the impact of the Youth Opportunity (YO) Initiative in targeting distressed neighborhoods throughout the U.S., and highlights effective practices for serving youth.

Assesses the strategies that United States and United Kingdom Public Employment Services have used to meet more complex employment support needs of people with disabilities.

Reveals the short-term impacts on the primary goals of increasing high school completion and enrollment in post-secondary education or training. Additionally, the report documents the implementation challenges sites experienced in operating the...

Examined the idea that a combination of mentoring, employment-related services and case management could smooth the transition for ex-prisoners—and in the process cut the rate at which they return to prison. To evaluate whether this approach holds...