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Workforce Development for the Underemployed and Short-Term Unemployed
Our project will examine a workforce development program (or programs) that focus specifically on assisting those who are unemployed, or underemployed, and also have some level of education (e.g. GED, some college, etc.).

Potential Programs for Research and Evaluation
Examples from the "Jobs for the Future" website


 * A Pathway Up for Frontline Health Care Workers
 * There are 17 sites: 1 in Seattle, 2 in Oregon, 1 in San Francisco, 1 in Arizona, 1 in Texas, 1 in Alaska, 1 in Hawaii, 1 in Kentucky (near the IN border), 1 in Ohio, 1 in Mississippi, 2 in Massachusetts, 1 in Connecticut, 1 in NYC, 1 in Philadelphia, and 1 in Baltimore.
 * Basically, what they do is take frontline health care workers (who are paid a lot less, have few paths to career advancement, and have high turnover rates) and give them paths to better health care careers. Workers get credit for on-the-job training activities and also take some college courses while working full-time. Then they get better jobs (here's a guest opinion column that cites anecdotal results from the program in Falls River).


 * Pathways Out of Poverty
 * This whole project is about creating green jobs for low-income folks in things like weatherization. They've got about five different partnerships, one of which is with Opportunity Chicago (Southside). This idea combines promoting sustainability with promoting employment.


 * Programs for Rural Areas
 * Oweesta Collaborative Entrepreneurship Development workforce partnership (they're more concerned about encouraging entrepreneurship on remote reservations) and a ROI workforce partnership concentrating on the Pennsylvania mushroom-growing industry (this may not still be operational).


 * Opportunity Chicago
 * "Five thousand jobs in five years. That was the aim of Opportunity Chicago in 2006 when it set out to help 5,000 public housing residents prepare for and find quality jobs by the end of 2010. As of April, 2010 almost 5,700 Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) residents have found employment, and thousands more have benefited from cutting-edge job training and placement programs and system-wide alignment of the city’s public workforce services."


 * Skill Works in Boston
 * Here are some programs : Building Services Career Path, Community Health Worker Initiative of Boston, Health Care Training Institute, Hotel Career Center , Partners in Automotive Career Education, and Partners Health Care.

Other Potential Programs for Review

 * Look at programs by sector (National Workforce Solutions
 * Biotechnology (focus on California
 * Education
 * Aviation
 * Logistics and Transportation


 * North Carolina Workforce Development Programs
 * North Carolina Gives Funds to Two New Workforce Development Programs
 * Assessing Skills for Performance in a Rebuilding Economy (ASPIRE)
 * The Turning Point Workforce Development Board to expand the WorkKeys and Career Readiness Certificate Programs
 * North Carolina Workforce Development Training Center