Enrollment is now open for the Construction Ready program in Atlanta. This free, four-week program is offered to low-income residents to help them develop the necessary skills, tools and supports to secure employment in the city's construction industry.
Agency officials, funders, policymakers and service providers gathered at a White House symposium on November 17 to discuss early implementation lessons and future plans for Rural IMPACT — a public-private effort to reduce child poverty in rural and tribal communities.
New reports from the Aspen Institute present a snapshot of how workforce development and immigrant-serving organizations currently intersect, as well as recommendations for how practitioners in these fields can strengthen partnerships to better connect immigrants to skill-building and career advancement opportunities.
In today’s economy, achieving financial stability often requires all available parents to work. To this end, we must ensure that child care is affordable and that parents can earn family supporting wages.
In this episode of CaseyCast, host Lisa Hamilton talks with Stacey Abrams, minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, about the role of state policymaking in improving the lives of children and families.
This report outlines challenges and shares actionable ideas on how the immigrant-serving and workforce development fields could form partnerships to improve policies and practices to connect immigrants with skill-building and career-advancement opportunities. The report aims to contribute to the emerging national conversation about these issues.
This report reflects on the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative’s vision for building on its successes to help youth and young adults thrive socially, emotionally, financially, intellectually and physically.
In this episode of CaseyCast, the Foundation’s Lisa Hamilton and the Brookings Institution’s Ron Haskins discuss America’s stubborn child poverty rate and how we can boost economic mobility among low-income families.
Since 2006, Arkansas has used funds from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to send eligible parents to 25 community and technical colleges across the state. A new evaluation of the Arkansas Career Pathways Initiative shows it benefits parents and the state as a whole, enabling more families to move out of poverty.
A family’s financial well-being can make a difference in a child's upbringing. But, for many immigrant families, financial stability isn’t a given — even when parents have stable employment, according to KIDS COUNT Data Center statistics.
