[Sabeswest] Breaking Through -- Unpacking Transitions

[Charlie Herbert]

Hi,

One of the morning events on April 5th's Unpacking Transitions day will 
be a presentation by Gloria Cross Mwase of Jobs For the Future, entitled 
Breaking Through -- Helping Low-Skilled Adults Enter and Succeed in 
College and Careers . Breaking Through is a multi-year demonstration 
project, which promotes and enhances the efforts of community colleges 
to help low-literacy adults prepare for and succeed in occupational and 
technical degree programs. Last December, at the Department of 
Education's Chasing the American Dream conference on ABE and workforce 
development, Breaking Through was the key presentation which kicked off 
the entire conference. SABES West is happy to host it here at Holyoke 
Community College.

Time 10 a.m. - 12.p.m.
Date April 5th
Location Kittredge Center KC 302

Gloria Cross Mwase is a Senior Project Manager for the Building Economic 
Opportunities Group at Jobs for the Future. She brings over ten years of 
project management and coordination experience in the nonprofit sector. 
Among her publications are studies that explore the role of 
community-based organizations in employment training and economic 
development. Her projects include /Breaking Through/ 
</JFF_Pages.php?WhichLevel=3&lv1_id=3&lv2_id=33&lv3_id=36&ShowProject=2>, 
which promotes strategies that help low-literacy adults succeed in 
careers by accessing higher education and training through community 
colleges, and /Investing in Workforce Intermediaries/ 
</JFF_Pages.php?WhichLevel=3&lv1_id=3&lv2_id=33&lv3_id=42&ShowProject=2>, 
which supports partnerships that recruit, train, place, retain, and 
advance new and incumbent workers in key industry sectors. Prior to 
coming to JFF, Dr. Mwase worked as a local representative for the Annie 
E. Casey Foundation, where she served on the Funders Group for 
/SkillWorks/ 
</JFF_Pages.php?WhichLevel=3&lv1_id=3&lv2_id=33&lv3_id=41&ShowProject=2>, 
a workforce intermediary in Boston.

Dr. Mwase has taught at Cambridge College and the University of 
Massachusetts Boston. She earned a B.A. in economics from Tougaloo 
College and both an M.S. and Ph.D in public policy at the University of 
Massachusetts Boston.

Please sign up for this via calendar.sabes.org or via Adrienne Morris at 
amorris at hcc.mass.edu. 

-- 
Charlie Herbert
Technology Coordinator
SABES West
cherbert at hcc.mass.edu
(413) 552-2019