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Helping Residents Gain Skills and Jobs: What Career Pathways Can Offer Tuesday, August 14, 2018 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Todays Speakers Tremayne Youmans,

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Helping Residents Gain Skills and Jobs: What Career Pathways Can Offer

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

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Today’s Speakers

  • Tremayne Youmans, Neighborhood & Community

Investment Specialist, Office of Public Housing Investments, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development

  • Julie Strawn, Principal Associate, Social & Economic Policy,

Abt Associates

  • Nick Codd, Senior Consultant, Seattle Jobs Initiative
  • Grace M. Adriano, Senior Resident Services Manager, King

County Housing Authority

  • Shelan Aldridge, Associate Director, Education and

Community Services, Neighborhood House

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Agenda

  • Introduction
  • What are career pathways strategies and

why use them?

  • Finding the right career pathways partners
  • Employment partnerships for residents in

King County, Washington (Seattle region)

  • Community partner perspective

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

What are Career Pathways Strategies and Why Use Them?

Julie Strawn, Principal Associate Abt Associates

Julie_Strawn@abtassoc.com

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What are Career Pathways Strategies?

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Career pathways strategies offer. . . . . . connected education and training steps between jobs in an industry sector, . . . combined with support services, . . . to enable individuals to enter and exit training within a pathway at various levels and, . . . advance over time to higher skills, recognized credentials, and better jobs with higher pay. Each step on a career pathway prepares individuals to progress to the next level of employment and/or education.

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Postsecondary credentials increasingly matter for access to family-sustaining jobs

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Only one fourth of public housing residents have any education beyond high school

7 36.5 37.8 25.7 13.1 31 45 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50

Less than high school High school diploma More than high school education (postsecondary)

Public Housing Residents U.S. Population

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Career Pathways Strategies Bundle Together Evidence-Based Practices

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  • Partnerships of employers, community/technical colleges,

workforce boards, community organizations, and others

  • “Stackable” credentials within an industry that allow workers to

build skills over time and advance to higher paying jobs

  • Clear, structured pathways with multiple levels to enter and exit

training and jobs depending on initial skills and experience

  • Support services and financial assistance to address barriers

that might derail completion of training

  • Work-based learning, such as internships
  • “Bridge” courses that integrate basic skills instruction with
  • ccupational training
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Example: Wisconsin Career Pathways

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Example: Pima Community College I-BEST Career Pathways Bridge

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Example: Pathways to Healthcare Pima Community College

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Challenges to Expanding Career Pathways Services to Residents

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  • Fear of losing public housing subsidies
  • Challenges of working/parenting while going to school
  • Barriers to program entry and eligibility, such as low basic

skills and/or limited English proficiency

  • Self-doubt; lack of role models or support
  • Lack of familiarity with colleges and with training options
  • Personal and family challenges, including transportation,

child care, health issues

  • BUT career pathways research shows others with similar

challenges can be successful. Right partners are key.

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Finding the Right Career Pathway Partners

Nick Codd, Senior Consultant Seattle Jobs Initiative (SJI)

NCodd@seattlejobsinit.com

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Career Pathway Partners: What to Look for

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 Providers who are employer-driven, whose

services lead to jobs and employer recognized credentials

 Capacity to engage and support people at

differing levels of readiness as they enter and move through employment and training services and transition to jobs

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Program Models & Approaches to Consider

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  • Navigator models: career & employment

navigators; housing and employment navigators

  • Short term training programs: employer

recognized credential supported by a navigator

  • Social Enterprise models
  • Transitional/subsidized work programs
  • Individual Placement and Support model
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Partnership with Federal Workforce Programs

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  • WIOA/WIOA Youth

– American Job Centers – Workforce Investment Boards

  • SNAP Employment and Training

https://snaptoskills.fns.usda.gov

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What a ROSS Program Offers to Workforce Partners

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  • People who are housed; not experiencing heavy rent

burden or impending loss of housing

  • Ability to manage impact of increased income on

housing subsidy/assistance.

  • Ability to inform and communicate with residents;

promote E&T opportunities

  • Link with needed resources/services (childcare;

schools; healthcare)

  • Share in case management/resident services
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What to Look for in a Partner

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  • Referral and service coordination
  • Assistance with core issues; transportation,

childcare/dependent care; other work supports

  • Funding model that allows for good access to

needed services

  • A few strong & committed partners that meet the

needs of your priority population

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Career Pathways Partners

Grace M. Adriano, Senior Resident Services Manager King County Housing Authority

GraceA@kcha.org

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KCHA Background

  • MTW Housing Authority
  • Serves one of the largest

counties

  • 33 cities in service area

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KCHA Property Map

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2017 Resident Population

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4,856 11,076

Public Housing & Project Based Vouchers Tenant Based Vouchers

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2017 Resident Population

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2017 Resident Population

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All Households Median Income $12,464 % Extremely low income 81% $0 Income households 4% (625) % with wage income 34% % with benefit income 64%

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KCHA Workforce Development Programs

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Tier 2: Employment Readiness Services Tier 1: Pre-employment Services Tier 3: Employment/Career Pathway Services

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KCHA Partners and Regional Resources

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KCHA Resources

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Captive Audience Community Centers Funding

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Effective Partnerships

  • Cultural competency
  • Listen to community voice
  • Leverage resources
  • Collaborators
  • Continuous improvement

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Seeking Partners

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Mutual interests/goals Joint grant applications Request for proposals

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Community Partner Perspective

Shelan Aldridge, Associate Director, Education and Community Services Neighborhood House

shelana@NHWA.ORG

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Background: Birch Creek Career Center

  • Neighborhood House (NH) and King County Housing

Authority (KHCA), and our roles as partners

  • Opening of the Birch Creek Career Center in 2011

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Goals of the Center

  • Move public housing residents towards self-

sufficiency through a number of activities:

– English as a Second Language (ESL) classes – Job search assistance – Computer skills – Soft skills workshops – Enrollment into vocational education

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Resources we started with (2011)

  • Building: Co-located with three organizations

within the building –English as a second language (ESL) provider –Head start & preschool provider –Public Health provider for Women, Infants & Children

  • Career Center Coordinator .8 FTE
  • Program Manager .05 FTE

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Where we are now with leveraged programming (2018)

  • Citizenship Instructor .4 FTE
  • Refugee & Immigrant Employment Case

Managers 1.5 FTE

  • Basic Food Employment & Training Program

Case Manager 1 FTE

  • Healthcare Careers Case Manager .2 FTE
  • Pre-Employment barrier-removal Case

Manager 1 FTE

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How did we get there?

  • Structuring staff intentionally to build resources

& partnerships

  • Career Center Coordinator (aka partnership

builder)

–Conduct assessments with residents –Engage residents & build relationships/presence –Build external partnerships to bring programs & resources to the center

  • Coordination of site schedule & case managers

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How we built successful partnerships

  • Target organizations where residents or low-

income public housing voucher holders receive services.

  • Tailor marketing material to match audience
  • Seek out complementary organizations to

work with

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How we built successful partnerships

  • Set up regular communication plan with

partners

  • Get on list servs with individual organizations
  • Find out what regular community partnership

meetings are happening

  • Evaluate return on investment quarterly

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Transforming Partnerships into Career Pathways

  • Case Study #1: Certified Nursing Assistant Class

–Partnership with the Community College –Labor market, employers, and other programs showed a high demand –Plan: College instructor to come to public housing community site –30-40 public housing residents expressed interest and attended initial orientation & completed enrollment

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Case Study #1 - Results

Approximately 5 people enrolled in class, with 4 total completions

  • Barriers to success
  • What we learned

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Transforming Partnerships into Career Pathways

  • Case Study #2 Early Childhood Education Class

– Partnership with a Community Based Organization called child care resources. – Childcare Resources offered a 10-12 week class that included embedded certificates in CPR, first aid, blood borne pathogens, and the Department of Early Learning. – NH provided case management and support services.

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Case Study #2 - Results

The class was a success, with a high participation and completion rate. We’re now in our 5th cohort of childcare classes.

  • What we did differently
  • What we learned along the way

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Ensure Sustainable Success

  • Don’t be afraid to fail and to try new things
  • Frequently solicit stakeholder & resident input
  • Engage with employers & understand local

employer needs and conduct labor market research

  • Seek out other innovative and replicable

programs

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Ensure Sustainable Success

  • Open dialogue with your funder and

stakeholders when you are facing challenges

  • Extend expertise to other agencies and

partners

  • Continue to build new partnerships and foster

existing ones

  • Stay focused on client successes when

challenges arise

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Questions and Discussion

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development