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> Education
Green Certifications and Training
This publication briefly describes what green jobs are and the trend of green jobs in the US. The publication also provides guidance on green industry certifications, and what the requirements are to receive these certifications.
College Preparation: Job Corps Supporting Students
with Higher Education Goals
Job Corps needs to be seen as part of the larger educational arena, aligned with the Early High School College initiative, Gates Foundation efforts and those of the Department of Education. This paper describes the need for more at-risk youth to be college bound and the steps that programs such as Job Corps need to incorporate to ensure that going to college is demystified and students are better prepared for the rigor and processes which will create challenges to their ongoing success in post-secondary education and life.
Reengaging Dropouts: Job Corps Works!
Many Americans are realizing that the economy is in crisis. This predicament is driven in part by an aging workforce, slow population growth and an education system that has not kept pace with the increased demands of tomorrow’s jobs. The students who are typically left behind, however, can play a key role in addressing the nation’s economic needs. Their needs, however, must also be met.
Job Corps Works: Meeting the Needs for a Skilled Workforce
This report highlights and supports the Job Corps program. Through this paper, the reader will gain insight about some of the prominent challenges facing the very effective Job Corps program. Finally, the paper provides recommendations for investments that will help maximize program effectiveness with students, who have typically dropped out of our traditional educational system, and improve program outcomes.
Job Corps: Needed Now More Than Ever
This paper provides compelling information on why Job Corps is the training and education program that youth across America need to succeed. America’s economic success is dependent on typical Job Corps students, aged 16 to 24, and the economically disadvantaged, since they are the workforce needed to fill skilled jobs being left vacant. We need more production out of those students who are dropping out of school.
Value of Education
Today's workplace pays a premium for education-more skills and training correlate with higher earnings and better positions. The majority of job growth will take place in fields requiring a high school degree as well as further training and technical/vocational certification.
Partnerships Between Job Corps and Community Colleges: A Guide
With the increasing importance on partnerships in education and training the MTC Institute has created a guide on how to establish and maintain partnerships between Job Corps centers and Community Colleges.
Meeting America’s Healthcare Employment Needs: The Job Corps/Community
College Solution
As part of the President’s High Growth Job Training initiative, MTC was provided a $1.5 million grant to address Healthcare industry needs. Out of the 177 students enrolled in college as part of the program, 33 student participants (over 18%) successfully completed training during the grant time period, including 14 students who received industry-recognized college/career technical training certificates. A total of 45 students have entered employment in a healthcare field and nine completed AAS degrees with 65 still enrolled through 2006. This is the final performance report submitted to the DOL describing the lessons learned, outcomes and recommendations.
Enhancing Partnerships Between Job Corps and Community Colleges
The MTC Institute demonstrates the need for partnerships between Job Corps and community colleges, and provides several examples of current and possible partnerships.
Rehabilitation Through Education: Correctional Educators
There is a growing public awareness of the need for cost-effective ways to reduce recidivism. Low offender educational attainment and work force changes in skill requirements amplify inmates’ difficulties in finding gainful employment once released. Education is a cost-effective means to reduce recidivism. Success requires maintaining trained and dedicated teaching professionals. This report examines correctional education, teacher attrition, and strategies to improve teacher retention.
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> Workforce Development
Job Corps: Changing Lives One Student at a Time 2009
Every year Job Corps helps thousands of young people begin satisfying careers. This Data Spotlight provides general information about Job Corps centers and students.
How To Improve Employee Motivation, Commitment, Productivity, Well-Being and Safety
Fact Sheet: Safety Loss Prevention
This Fact Sheet provides general information about Risk Management and Loss Prevention resources. Staff who are involved with safety/loss control are in a great position to help drive the facility, management, and organizational culture, leading to a reduction in losses and a safer operating environment.
Meeting America’s Healthcare Employment Needs: The Job Corps/Community
College Solution
As part of the President’s High Growth Job Training initiative, MTC was provided a $1.5 million grant to address Healthcare industry needs. Out of the 177 students enrolled in college as part of the program, 33 student participants (over 18%) successfully completed training during the grant time period, including 14 students who received industry-recognized college/career technical training certificates. A total of 45 students have entered employment in a healthcare field and nine completed AAS degrees with 65 still enrolled through 2006. This is the final performance report submitted to the DOL describing the lessons learned, outcomes and recommendations.
Job Corps: A training Program Pipeline to the Corrections Profession
Job Corps: Changing Lives One Student at a Time - Spanish Version
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> Corrections
Correctional Officers: Strategies to Improve Retention
Many corrections professionals refer to correctional officers (COs) as “the backbone of the prison system.” If this common perception is accepted, COs must be considered the system’s “most valuable employees.” Unfortunately, the turnover of correctional officers nationwide is very high.
Privatization in Corrections
This report describes the latest research related to the benefits of contracting for prison operations. The information and data related to privatization in corrections, reasonably leads to a conclusion that contracted corrections will continue to increase because of costs, performance and accountability.
Programs That Help Offenders Stay Out of Prison
The report Programs that Help Offenders Stay Out of Prison provides elected officials and government leaders, who are struggling with how to reduce the number of offenders returning to prison, with supportive information and data. Given the increasing research on what works in correctional programming, the report explores the dimensions of recidivism and identifies key principles for effective education and substance abuse treatment programs.
Included Data Spotlight: Improving reentry Success: Programming in Prison
When Women Hold The Keys: Gender, Leadership, and Correctional Policy
In this 2007 qualitative study, Dr. Kimberly Greer interviewed 25 women in leadership positions (e.g., commissioners, directors, wardens, and consultants from both corrections and probation) throughout the U.S. and surveyed 180 members of the Association of Women Executives in Corrections (AWEC) resulting in feedback from 61 respondents. The study provides significant understanding of personal and professional issues women in criminal justice leadership positions face.
Women Professionals in Corrections: A Growing Asset
The number of women in the workforce is projected to grow by 10.9% compared to 9.1% for men through 2014; with women comprising 47% of the workforce. With a 13% workforce increase in the number of additional supervisory staff projected for corrections between 2006 and 2016, women represent a growing, educated human resource asset across the various careers in corrections. The Institute, in this public policy paper, looks at this growing part of the correctional workforce, examining issues affecting women and their career success.
Contracting for Success: Improving Performance in Corrections
The debate in the U.S. should not be about who is providing the correctional service, but how well the service provider is achieving established outcomes. This paper describes the benefits of competition, five tools to enhance accountability and performance, and use of programs that reduce recidivism to meet taxpayer expectations. The use of performance contracting elevates and focuses the discussion on who can perform, meet qualitative standards and outcomes, is accountable, and are able to limit costs to the taxpayer.
Succession Planning: Preparing Future Corrections Leaders - Now
It is probable that many of the employees in correctional agencies today will not be
there in five years. Who will replace them? This is a critical question that agency management must address to maintain a safe and orderly operation. Experts in human resources have estimated that 85 percent of organizations either do inadequate succession planning or fail to do it entirely. It is important for organizations that fall into this group to take action now.
Measuring Success: Improving the Effectiveness of Correctional Facilities
This report answers directly who is responsible for the effectiveness of prisons. It also describes how those responsible should be held accountable to a set of performance standards. The report provides a roadmap for establishing a formal structure of accountability through firmly recognized outcomes. The foundation of a successful prison is described through the four dimensions of (1) Safety and Security, (2) Quality of Life, (3) Re-entry Preparation, and (4) Management.
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