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Outlines a policy agenda to address the youth unemployment crisis and calls for changes to education and workforce systems in the United States.

Summarizes the lessons learned from the nine planning grant states under the Work Support Strategies (WSS), a multiyear initiative to help selected states test and implement more effective and integrated approaches to delivering key work supports,...

Examines the need to create a comprehensive support system for African American homeless veterans with disabilities around issues of employment, mental health, housing, and financial stability.

Highlights key results from an initiative designed to increase the number of low-skilled adults with post-secondary credentials through aligned, streamlined sector programming.

Argues for integrating financial security and asset-building strategies into a range of workforce development programs to ensure that individuals have the tools to participate in, contribute to and benefit from the mainstream economy.

Examines the state of current prisoner reentry programs and identifies the need for new strategies that promote lower recidivism and successful reentry.

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

Contains results of a summative evaluation of California's Integrated Service Delivery (ISD) Initiative which was designed to integrate local Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Programs with Wagner-Peyser Programs inside One-Stop Career Centers...

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...

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