Workforce Basic Skills Resources

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                               2019 COABE CONFERENCE  Workforce Development Presentations

What Research is Telling Us About How Basic Skills Services Can Support Family-sustaining Employment and Stronger Communities  https://www.dropbox.com/s/w6ua9lof4wncvtq/What%20Research%20Tells%20US%20about%20Basic%20Skills%20-%20COABE%204-3-19.pdf?dl=0

How Two Urban Programs are Helping Adults Develop Basic Skills, Family-sustaining Employment, and Stronger Communities  https://www.dropbox.com/s/kprjaae3wbccm7z/How%20Two%20Urban%20Programs%20are%20Helping%20Adults%20-%20COABE%204-2-19.pdf?dl=0


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                                          Can-Do Guides for Stakeholders   (Updated October 11, 2019)
 
Summary

The Open Door Collective (ODC) Labor and Workforce Development Issues Group is developing a series of “Can-Do” Guides aimed at various stakeholders (e.g., supporters of public health and environmental sustainability, employers, labor unions, prisoner re-entry agencies, universities, and others).

Each guide explains why adult basic skills are important for the individuals with whom that stakeholder works (e.g., individuals impacted by health or environmental issues, employees, union members, former inmates) and how that stakeholder can work with adult basic education providers to strengthen and expand basic skills development services in their community and state.  ODC encourages users of this web page to read the guides, download them, and adapt the information and guides in their communications with various stakeholder groups.
 
The guides are based on experience and research in collaborative efforts with various stakeholder groups and are in keeping with ODC’s goal of strengthening and expanding adult basic skills services through informed, creative collaboration.
 
•  "Strengthening Public Health and the Healthcare Workforce: What U.S. Health Partners and Adult Basic Skills Programs
Can Do Together" (September 30, 2019 Edition) 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kjzrvif4rc38v47/ODC%20Health%20Partners%20Can-Do%20Guide%209-30-19.pdf?dl=0

•  "Greening U.S. Adult Basic Skills Efforts: What Eco-Partners and Adult Educators Can Do Together"(September 30, 2019 Edition)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3mwjwse7ar9v45s/ODC%20Eco-Partners%20Can-Do%20Guide%209-30-19.pdf?dl=0

•  “What Forward-Thinking Employers Can Do to Strengthen the Basic Skills of Our Workforce” (December 10, 2018 Edition) https://www.dropbox.com/s/bfong29i4kicotz/ODC%20Employer%20Can%20Do%2012-10-18.pdf?dl=0

•  "What Labor Educators Can Do to Strengthen the Basic Skills of Our Workforce” (December 10, 2018 Edition) https://www.dropbox.com/s/gdsr09vnl5tqzbk/ODC%20Union%20Can%20Do%2012-10-18.pdf?dl=0

•  “What Re-Entry Services Can Do to Strengthen the Basic Sills of Former Inmates” (December 10, 2018 Edition) https://www.dropbox.com/s/8o18lb4q8ae7s73/ODC%20Re-Entry%20Services%20Can-Do%2012-10-18.pdf?dl=0

•  "What Universities Can Do to Strengthen U.S. Adult Basic Skills Efforts” (January  10, 2019 Edition) https://www.dropbox.com/s/1m7xh0gwmskfu9h/ODC%20Universities%20Can-Do%20Guide%2012-10-18.pdf?dl=0 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/23fjv6nmqoboey4/ODC%20Universities%20Can-Do%20Guide%201-10-19.pdf?dl=0
        
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                      An Archive of Work-Related Basic Skills Resources   March 2020 Edition

INTRODUCTION

This archive is an annotated mix of resource materials related to various
aspects of work-related adult basic education:

• Work-Readiness, College Transition, and Career Pathways for Job Seekers:
Program Models and Practices;
• Work-Readiness for Particular Industries;
• Workplace Education for Incumbent Workers: Program Models and
Practices;
• Tools for Assessing Worker Basic Skills;
• Tools for Program Planning and Evaluation;
• Work-Related Basic Education in the U.S.: Local, State, and National Policy;
• Interpretations of How to Make Workplace Education Relevant and Effective;
• Employer Perspectives;
• Labor Union Perspectives;
• International Perspectives.

These 200 resources include both relatively recent documents and “oldies.” This
inclusion of older resources is done to help newcomers to the field to (a) understand
that work-related basic skills development is not a new topic and (b) access
valuable resources they otherwise might not be aware of or able to locate. While
most of these resources support a “contextualized” approach to work-related basic
education, they are not unanimous in the particular contextualized applications they
focus on nor in how they develop and run their programs.

While the Open Door Collective (ODC) advocates for worker basic education as a
tool to help workers attain, perform, and advance in family-sustaining employment,
not all of the documents here explicitly focus on that particular goal. They are
nonetheless included here because we feel it is important to learn from a range of
perspectives and experiences in this evolving field.

ODC’s Labor and Workforce Development Issues Group will continuously refresh
this archive. The latest version is March 2020. We welcome suggestions for additional resources and how we might otherwise make this collection useful.

THE ARCHIVE

To see the archive, select THE ARCHIVE.  If you download and save it to your desktop the links should be clickable. You can also copy a link and paste it in your browser.