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Effectiveness of Screened, Demand-Driven Job Training Programs for Disadvantaged Workers an Evaluation of the New Orleans Career Pathway Training. Research Report. RR-2980-DOL

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Baird, Matthew D.; Engberg, John; Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Goughnour, Thomas; Gutierrez, Italo A.; Karam, Rita T. – RAND Corporation, 2019

Lower-skilled workers in the United States face a shrinking pool of employment opportunities. To combat this, the city of New Orleans' Office of Workforce Development (OWD) developed a job training program with a grant, awarded in 2014, from the U.S. Department of Labor Workforce Innovation Fund. The program, Career Pathways, was designed to help…

Descriptors: Job Training, Disadvantaged, Unskilled Workers, Career Pathways

Instituto del Progreso Latino's Carreras en Salud Program: Implementation and Early Impact Report. Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE). OPRE Report No. 2018-06

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Martinson, Karin; Copson, Elizabeth; Gardiner, Karen; Kitrosser, Daniel – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2018

This report documents the implementation and early impacts of the Carreras en Salud (Careers in Health) program, operated by Instituto del Progreso Latino, in Chicago, Illinois. The Carreras en Salud program is one promising effort aimed at helping low-income, low-skilled adults access and complete occupational training that can lead to increased…

Descriptors: Career Development, Program Implementation, Hispanic Americans, Organizations (Groups)

The Learning and Development of Low-Skilled Workers Training to Become Surgical Technologists

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Dyer, Judith Sandra – ProQuest LLC, 2010

The purpose of this case study was to explore how low-skilled workers who participated in a health care training program learned to acquire the technical, cognitive, and developmental competencies they needed to gain skilled employment in higher-level positions in the field and thus advance their careers. The data methods used were: (1) in-depth…

Descriptors: Program Design, Job Training, Skilled Workers, Human Capital