Breaking Through Practice Guide

This guide created by Jobs for the Future compiles practices developed and implemented by community colleges in the national Breaking Through initiative. It is designed for practitioners who want to connect adults who have limited reading and match skills with postsecondary credentials leading to jobs paying family supporting wages.

The Breaking Through Practice Guide

This guide compiles practices developed and implemented by community colleges in the national Breaking Through initiative. It is designed for practitioners who want to connect adults who have limited reading and match skills with postsecondary credentials leading to jobs paying family supporting wages.

How to Develop Programs for Youth in Allied Health Careers

This guide was developed to provide youth program planners and services providers with practical information about allied health occupations in order to create or expand programs and services leading to allied health opportunities.

Massachusetts' Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs

The National Skills Coalition prepared this report for the Skills2Compete-Massachusetts campaign, as part of the national Skills2Compete Campaign. This report examines the Massachusetts economy and the current gaps in the skills of the workforce. Massachusetts' Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs focuses on "middle-skill" jobs - those that require more than a high school diploma but less than a four-year degree - and how middle-skill jobs represent the largest share of jobs and future job openings.

Sound Investments: Building Immigrants' Skills to Fuel Economic Growth

The Economic Mobility Corporation’s publication Sound Investments: Building Immigrants’ Skills to Fuel Economic Growth focuses on the best approaches to helping immigrants improve their skills and obtain better jobs given the large amount of low-skilled immigrants in our workforce. The report identifies promising efforts that help immigrants acquire education and skills, one of which includes Commonwealth Corporation’s Extended Care Career Ladder Initiative (ECCLI), which facilitates career advancement among lower-skilled employees.