[Nesabes] Webinar Invitation: Improving Labor Market Success for Low-Wage Workers: MDRC's Research on Job Retention and Advancement Programs, Education Interventions, and Transitional Jobs Programs

[Bower, Carol]

Hi All,

It is unfortunate that this Webinar falls during the Directors'
Conference; however, they are usually archived so you may be able to
view it later.

 

Carol

 

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Webinar Invitation
Improving Labor Market Success for Low-Wage Workers: MDRC's Research on
Job Retention and Advancement Programs, Education Interventions, and
Transitional Jobs Programs

With support from the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training
Administration, MDRC, a nonprofit policy research firm, is conducting
evaluations of programs to help low-wage workers retain their jobs and
advance in the labor market; to assist low-income students in high
school and college stay in school, earn credentials, and prepare for
careers; and to support ex-prisoners as they reenter society by
providing them with transitional jobs and employment services. 

 

Presenters: 

Dan Bloom, Director, MDRC, Welfare and Barriers to Employment Policy
Area 
Rob Ivry, Senior Vice President, MDRC
Frieda Molina, Senior Associate, MDRC, Low-Wage Workers and Communities
Policy Area
Regina Peruggi, President, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY 
Susan Scrivener, Senior Associate, Young Adults and Post-Secondary
Education Policy Area 

Moderator: 

Maria K. Flynn, Administrator, Office of Policy Development and
Research, Employment and Training Administration

Date: 

09/26/2007

Time: 

2:00pm Eastern (1:00pm/Central, 12:00pm/Mountain, 11:00am/Pacific)

Length: 

120 minutes

Description:
The goal of this Webinar is to highlight research that MDRC is
conducting, with support from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment
and Training Administration, on programs serving low-wage workers,
low-income students, and ex-prisoners returning to society. The
Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) and Work Advancement and
Support Center (WASC) Demonstrations focus on improving job retention
and advancement for low-wage workers, from current and former welfare
recipients to dislocated workers. Interim findings on several promising
approaches tested in the ERA study will be highlighted. MDRC will
describe how the WASC demonstration is engaging the Workforce Investment
Act's One-Stop Career Centers, other workforce organizations, and
employers to provide a full range of job retention and advancement
services and financial supports to low-wage workers. MDRC will also
profile innovative employment programs for ex-prisoners in New York City
and four Midwestern cities. 

In education, MDRC will focus on findings from its long-term evaluation
of Career Academy high schools, which combine small learning communities
with career-oriented curricula and with work experience, and on how
practitioners are using the research to improve their programs. Finally,
the Webinar will provide early findings from MDRC's Opening Doors
demonstration, which is testing, at six community colleges, the effects
of enhanced student services, instructional reforms, and
performance-based scholarships on student grades, retention, graduation,
and labor market outcomes. The president of one of these institutions,
Kingsborough Community College, will explain how they are building on
the results of the study to expand learning communities programs for
incoming freshmen. 

Register Now!!!
Registration for this Webinar is limited and seating is on a first-come,
first-served basis. Please click the link below to login to Workforce3
One and register today!

http://www.workforce3one.org/public/webinars/details.cfm?id=219

U.S. Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration
<http://www.doleta.gov/> 

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