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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
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? [email protected]
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?
