Workforce Development

Bridging the Talent Gap through Data Insights and Community Action

September 5, 2018 Leave a Comment

Bridging the Talent Gap through Data Insights and Community Action

In a newly posted chapter from Investing in America’s Workforce: Improving Outcomes for Workers and Employers, the authors explore results from a survey of over 1,600 businesses. Findings reveal a valuable relationship between employers who provide learning benefits and employees who take advantage of these programs. For small and midsized employers in particular, employer-provided education programs are influential in achieving employers’ organizational goals. Read the chapter at investinwork.org/book and stay tuned for the book launch on November 9!

The chapter is part of Investing in America’s Workforce: Improving Outcomes for Workers and Employers, which will be released on November 9, 2018. The book includes the voices of over 100 contributing authors who share research, best practices, and resources on workforce development. The project is a result of a two-and-a-half-year collaboration of the Federal Reserve System, Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, the Ray Marshall Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. See www.investinwork.org for more information on the initiative and the upcoming book release.

Preparing Workers for the Expanding Digital Economy

August 23, 2018 Leave a Comment

Preparing Workers for the Expanding Digital Economy

How are technological innovations affecting workforce development? This chapter of Investing in America’s Workforce: Improving Outcomes for Workers and Employers examines the lack of digital access among low-income and rural communities and concludes that workers require a new kind of employment preparation and access to lifelong training.

Community Workforce Plan Evaluation

May 14, 2018 Leave a Comment

Principal Investigator:	Greg Cumpton, PhD
Sponsor:	Workforce Solutions Capital Area
Project Duration:	January 2018 – March 2022
Description:	The Ray Marshall Center (RMC) has partnered with Workforce Solutions Capital Area (WFSCA) to evaluate the progress of the Austin Metro Area Master Community Workforce Plan. The objective of the Master Plan is to effectively engage employers, community-based organizations, and educational institutions to more efficiently match employers’ skill needs and successfully prepare economically disadvantaged residents for family-sustaining careers. The RMC will investigate the educational and labor market outcomes of workforce development program participants, as well as variations in such results associated with demographic, personal, educational, and programmatic service regimes of the participants. RMC staff will work with WFSCA staff and area training providers to identify paths to the successful implementation of the Master Plan.
Reports Available:	Austin Metro Area Community Workforce Plan Year Two Evaluation Report Authors: Greg Cumpton, Cynthia Juniper, and Ashweeta Patnaik Date: September 2020 Publication Type: Report, 50pp. Austin Metro Area Master Community Workforce Plan Year One Evaluation Report Authors: Greg Cumpton, Cynthia Juniper, and Ashweeta Patnaik Date: October 2019 Publication Type: Report, 43pp. Austin Metro Area Master Community Workforce Plan Baseline Evaluation Report Authors: Greg Cumpton, Cynthia Juniper, and Ashweeta Patnaik Date: October 2018 Publication Type: Report, 86pp. Family Work Support Benefits: An assessment of food and child care supports in the Austin, Texas metro area (MCWP Supplement: Poverty) Authors: Cynthia Juniper Date: January 2019 Publication Type: Supplement, 13pp.

2Gen article co-authored by Chris King published in Russell Sage Foundation Journal

April 3, 2018 Leave a Comment

RMC Senior Research Scientist Dr. Chris King was part of a group that authored a paper titled “A Two-Generation Human Capital Approach to Anti-poverty Policy” that has now been published in The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. The paper was published online in the February 2018 special issue on innovative anti-poverty interventions and was co-authored by Teresa Eckrich Sommer (Northwerstern University), Terri J. Sabol (Northwestern University), Elise Chor (Temple University), William Schneider (Northwestern University), P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale (Northwestern University), Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (Columbia University), Mario L. Small (Harvard University), Hiro Yoshikawa (New York University), and Dr. King.

In the paper, they propose a two-generation strategy to improve the economic fortunes of children in the United States. With CAP Tulsa’s CareerAdvance® program as a prototype, they suggest a competitive grant program to test and evaluate different models using federal dollars. They estimate average benefit-cost ratios across a range of promising career fields of 1.3 within five years and 7.9 within ten years if 10 percent of Head Start parents participate in two-generation programs. You can read the paper here (issue 4(3), pp. 118-143).

The Ray Marshall Center has an ongoing partnership with CAP Tulsa and Northwestern University to create a sectoral, career pathway workforce strategy for the parents of young children in early childhood education in Tulsa that began in 2008. You can view the details of the partnership here.

Chris King gives presentation at the National Head Start Association conference

January 10, 2018 Leave a Comment

RMC Senior Research Scientist Dr. Chris King was invited to give a presentation at the National Head Start Association‘s 2017 Parent and Family Engagement Conference held at the JW Marriott in Austin, Texas, on December 4-6, 2017. The conference is “the only national event that focuses on how communities, parents, families, and Head Strart program staff can best partner to promote both parent and family engagement and children’s learning and development.”

In a December 5th session titled Launching the Workforce: Head Start’s Success in Families’s Careers, Chris was on a panel led by Scott Groginsksy of NHSA along with Dr. Cindy Decker, director of Innovation Labs at CAP Tulsa, and Candee Melin, Director of Child Services at Parents in Community Action, Inc (PICA). You can learn more about the session here, and you can view Chris’s presentation here.

L-R: Cindy Decker, Chris King, and Candee Melin

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Principal Investigator:	Greg Cumpton, PhD
Sponsor:	Economic Mobility Corporation, Inc
Project Duration:	January 2018 – December 2023
Description:	Project QUEST provides employment training and services aligned with the skills most in demand by San Antonio, Texas employers. The Ray Marshall Center will be working with the Economic Mobility Corporation, Inc (Mobility) and building around their recent program evaluation of Project QUEST. This innovative partnership links both QUEST participants and similar non-participants to Texas Unemployment Insurance wage records. By combining self-reported and administrative data, the research will seek to verify self-reported outcomes, enhance the longitudinal tracking of employment and earnings both prior to and after completing QUEST, and measure long-term impacts of program participation.
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