Gentle readers,
It appears to be feast or famine in the number of resources in any one week.  This week, there were fewer, so you have a short list. 

Remember that you may have to cut and paste the two parts of the URL together if they wrap to two lines in this e-mail.

Donna

 

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>From Public/Private Ventures P/PV <http://www.ppv.org/index.asp>

Ready4Work In Brief
        Funded by the US Department of Labor and the Annie E. Casey and Ford foundations, Ready4Work is a three-year national demonstration project designed to address the needs of the growing ex-prisoner population and to test the capacity of community- and faith-based organizations to meet those needs.
        This issue of P/PV In Brief examines interim outcomes from the initiative, which to date are extremely encouraging. Almost 60 percent of participants have become employed and the majority of them have stayed employed for three or more consecutive months. Even more striking, recidivism rates for Ready4Work participants are considerably lower than those reported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics for a similar population. To view the brief, click here. <http://www.ppv.org/ppv/community_faith/community_faith_publications.asp?section_id=3>

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Fellow Practitioners and Supporters of Adult Literacy:
        COABE invites you to attend the National Literacy Summit.2 at your desktop.
This second annual literacy event will convene literacy providers, corporate sponsors, and government and academic representatives to identify what works in literacy across the lifespan - the science, strategies and practices that effect positive outcomes.
  Together, we will:
        Define effective program elements, outcomes and measures for each stage of literacy
across the lifespan
        Examine and recommend research-based practices and strategies that support program elements and achieve desired outcomes
        Enable greater understanding and collaboration among providers
        Produce a tool that can be shared with all providers
Please join this interactive event, and contribute your unique and respected knowledge  to a dialogue about how we should approach literacy across the lifespan.
EVENT SPONSORS: American Library Association, Georgetown University, National Center for Family Literacy, National Coalition for Literacy, ProLiteracy Worldwide, and Verizon Foundation

Monday, October 30, 2006
1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST
For more details and to register for the Webcast, click here. <http://client.uvault.com/verizon/103006/>

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>From the Conference Board of Canada <http://www.conferenceboard.ca/>

Benefits of Employee Involvement in Business-Education Partnerships
The Employability Skills Enhancement Matrix--Matching Partnership Activities and Employee Skills Development as a means of building a highly skilled and effective workforce through their involvement in business-education partnerships. <http://www.conferenceboard.ca/education/learning-tools/pdfs/benempl.pdf>

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>From Equipped For the Future  (Note: There is a flyer that goes with this announcement that I can't attach.  If you are interested in this training, please e-mail Anna Bogle abogle at utk.edu and she can both send you the flyer in a personal e-mail and also give you any other information you need.)


Announcing!! 

The Equipped for the Future 

Work Readiness Curriculum Training

December 4-5, 2006

University of Tennessee

Knoxville, TN

 

You are invited to join experienced Equipped for the Future staff as we offer a training for Adult Educators wishing to prepare their adult learners for the National Work Readiness Credential and entry level work.  

 

For more information on the training and registration details, please refer to the attached brochure, or call Anna Bogle at (865) 974-8426.

 

The EFF Work Readiness Curriculum aligns with the National Work Readiness Credential (NWRC) Profile which was developed in collaboration with the EFF Assessment Consortium and hundreds of front-line supervisors from businesses across the country. The profile uses The EFF Worker Role Map and integrates the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Basic Skills (SCANS skills) with the EFF Content Standards.  Each of the instructional modules that comprise the EFF Work Readiness Curriculum take a blended approach, focusing on specific SCANS tasks from the credential's profile while highlighting two or three of the EFF Standards, reinforcing the acquisition and application of basic skills.  

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