Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id iB1GJaF22479; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:19:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:19:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1da.30a79378.2edf485e@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: MWPotts2001@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2888] Guide for Staff-Help Job Seekers X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 2180 Lines: 47 Colleagues, EFF is featured in the Guide for career center staff, designed to help assist job seekers with low literacy. Thanks to Paul Jurmo and Donna Curry for the information below. All the Best, Meta Potts, Moderator 4-EFF list New Heldrich Center Guide Helps Workforce Development Professionals Assist Job Seekers Who Have Limited Basic Skills The Heldrich Center is proud to offer a new, comprehensive guide for career center staff and policymakers entitled, Helping Job Seekers Who Have Limited Basic Skills: A Guide for Workforce Development Professionals. The guide, created with support from the J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation, offers a step-by-step overview of how to assist career center customers who lack sufficient literacy, language, or other basic skills to fully access career center services or to find and keep rewarding jobs. Government-run One-Stops and other types of career centers are increasingly expected to meet the needs of customers who have limited basic skills. However, they often lack the tools or knowledge to do this effectively. This guide for workforce professionals, the first of its kind in the nation, provides specific steps and strategies that career centers can take to improve their services. The guide was authored by Jennifer Cleary, project director at the Heldrich Center, and Dr. Paul Jurmo, consultant and nationally recognized expert on adult education and workforce development issues. It covers a wide variety of topics, and encourages career centers to collaborate with local adult education providers. It also promotes the National Institute for Literacy's Equipped for the Future (EFF) program, a standards-based reform model for adult education that helps adults build the skills needed to function effectively at home, at work, and in the community. Helping Job Seekers Who Have Limited Basic Skills has a user-friendly format with an overview of each topic, concrete suggestions for improving career services, and a list of Web-based instructional resources. It is now available through the Heldrich Center's web site. http://www.heldrich.rutgers.edu/
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