Jessie Stadd, Kratos Learning Jeffrey Fantine, Technical Assistance Coordinator

Jessie Stadd, Kratos LearningJeffrey Fantine, Technical Assistance

Coordinator

About Points of Entry

About the Project

• Investment through Open Society Foundations Special Fund for Poverty Alleviation

• Aligned goals with Department of Education Projects

– Policy to Performance

– Designing Instruction for Career Pathways

• Project Period of September 2011 – December 2012

About the Project

• Eight demonstration sites received funding and customized technical assistance to develop and/or enhance services

• Promotes the development of career pathways and transition programs that lead to employment for middle-skilled adults and prisoners in re-entry

Target Population

• Enhancing services for three hard-to-serve populations:– Middle-skilled adults (6-8 GLE)

– Incarcerated adults (6-12 GLE)

– Adults on probation or parole (6-12 GLE)

GLE = Grade Level Equivalent

From the News

Project Goals

Work with a subset of demonstration sites to:

• Build new and strengthen existing partnerships to support transition services

• Develop career pathways that integrate academic, career-related, and support services including behavioral interventions

• Developing sustainable practices and impacting state and local policies

Vision for Ongoing Impact

• President’s 2020 Initiative

• Bring national focus to hard-to-serve populations

• Improve career and college readiness systems in states

• Potential for statewide replication and promotion of promising practices

Project Strategies

• Financial resources• Ongoing technical assistance• Access to subject matter experts and transition

resources• Training & learning opportunities

Participant Discussion

• In your experience in this field, what are some barriers facing these populations?

Demonstration Sites

Demonstration Sites

• Funding eight sites in ten locations across the country in both rural and urban areas in:– Alabama

– California

– Massachusetts

– New York

Demonstration Sites

Prison or Jail-based Interventions

Re-entry Interventions Basic Skills Interventions

Elk Grove Adult & Community EducationElk Grove, CA

Hampden County Sheriff’s DepartmentSpringfield, MA

Ludlow Adult Area Learning Center Ludlow, MA

J.F. Ingram State Technical CollegeElmore, AL

Contra Costa County Office of EducationVisalia, CA &Riverside, CA

City of Cambridge Community Learning CenterCambridge, MA

Syracuse City School DistrictSyracuse, NY

Literacy West NY, Inc. Alleghany County, NY

St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES Massena, NY

Prison or Jail-Based Interventions

Elk Grove Adult & Community Education

• POE Intervention:– Enhanced transition from county jail to academic and

workforce services– Transition Specialist– Advisory Board

• Elk Grove Adult and Community Education• Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center• Los Rios Community Colleges• Sacramento Works Career Centers

Elk Grove: Project Highlights

Elk Grove received a “2012 Promising Practices Award” from CASAS.

Syracuse City School District

• POE Intervention– Enhanced pre-release planning – Transition students from the Justice Center to Literacy

Zone– Consistent Case Manager– Learner Web/Career Readiness Six-Week Module

J.F. Ingram State Technical College

• POE Intervention– Dual Enrollment in CTE/ABE– Academic and workforce services, OSHA training– Behavioral intervention– Better utilization of existing services– Enhanced coordination with Corrections personnel

Ingram: Project Highlight

Travon Ackey, Ingram State Technical College, Carpentry Student “Ambassador”

“I try my best to show new students, “look at how the program affected me”, especially the people that knew me before, and they see the newer me now. They can see the change. I am going to try and enroll back into a technical college when I get out . . . My plan is to get an associate’s degree in carpentry.”

Re-entry Interventions

Hampden County Sheriff’s Department

• POE Intervention– Developed new partnerships– Developed academic component– Coordination with AISS services– Enhancing path to Holyoke Community College’s bridge

program

Contra Costa County Office of Education

• POE Intervention– Cohort approach for POE modules:

• Workforce skills certification system• Commitment to Change• CHOICES

– Increased outreach to partners– Regional Transition Specialist

Literacy West NY, Inc.

• POE Intervention:– Managed enrollment– Mandated enrollment– Re-Entry Team– WIA Title I Resources– Regional approach

• Behavioral intervention

Literacy West: Project Highlight

“Literacy West funded an 8-week training program for me. I completed the program and through that I was able to get full employment as a tool grinder . . . There’s always opportunity for me to move up.”

Stephen Pink, Literacy West NY, Inc., CNC Machining Training

Ludlow Area Adult Learning Center

• POE Intervention: – Expanded delivery of services by 3 hrs/wk to include

computer and career instruction– Career Integration

• Use of blended ESOL/workforce development curriculum (Integrating Career Awareness)

• Career-focused conversation classes• New element for this grade level

– Continuum of services

Cambridge

• POE Intervention– Integrated work-focus to classes– Modified Integrating Career Awareness– Career counselor– Partnerships

• Bunker Hill Community College• One Stop

– Culture Change

St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES

• POE Intervention– Restructured services to the Gateways career pathways

model – Managed enrollment– Academic coursework– Career exploration and planning, advising, work readiness– Computers– Expanding to other regional sites

Career Pathways

• Enhanced academic services• Enhanced pathway to postsecondary

institutions– Cambridge– Elk Grove– HCSD– Literacy West– St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES

Partnerships

• Deepened relationships with existing partners– Formal Agreements – Recruitment and referral processes

• Literacy West, Contra Costa, Elk Grove

– Better utilization of internal and external resources• Literacy West, Cambridge, Elk Grove, HCSD

– Shared training opportunities• Literacy West

Support Services/Behavior Change

Behavioral Change• Thinking for a Change

– Literacy West

• Developing Problem Solving Strategies for a Successful Reentry– Ingram– HCSD

• Commitment to Change– CCCOE

Career Focus• CHOICES

– CCCOE– Elk Grove

• Integrating Career Awareness– LAALC– Cambridge

Connecting Pre- & Post-Release

• Transition Specialist/Case Manager– Elk Grove– Syracuse– Ingram– Contra Costa

Share!

• Are you already putting these components into practice in your programs? Tell us about it!– Career pathways for correctional or ABE

population– Culture change– Partnership teams– Behavioral interventions – Others?

Evaluation

• An evaluation is currently underway by Judith A. Alamprese, Principal Scientist, Abt Associates

• For more information, obtain the slides from Monday’s session: Developing Career Pathways for Adults in Reentry: Lessons from Research

• Questions? EmailJudy_Alamprese@abtassoc.com

How You Can Join Us!

• Learn and share with the demonstration sites, experts, and project staff through a dedicated group on the Adult Career Pathways-Support Center (www.acp-sc.org) forums.

• Sign up and we will send you an invitation to join the group to discuss this topic with POE partners and other colleagues.

Questions?

Contact Us

Jessie Staddjessie.stadd@kratoslearning.com

Jeffrey Fantinejeff.fantine@gmail.com