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Join the U.S. Department of Labor for the fourth topical webinar in a five-part series hosted by the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Youth Recipient and Employment Transition Formative Research Project. This project is funded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy.
The webinar will highlight three projects from the Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI (PROMISE) Model Demonstration.
Discusses implementing programs that ensure school safety and academic success, covering what makes up Iowa's program as an example. Demonstrates Iowa's success via participation in standard LEA implementation activities and their Safe School Certification Program as well as via completing items on an implementation checklist.
Discusses key takeaways from the State Policy Academy focused on foster youth in postsecondary education, including approaches taken by Colorado, Iowa, Oregon and Texas, and considerations to assist policy development supporting foster youth attainment.
Assists school leaders to improve school climate, which includes guidance to develop a plan to improve adult-student relationships. The toolkit provides a picture of a sample plan and the step-by-step process for successfully creating a plan to improve the climate in a school.
Includes information for schools that want to get moving right away to improve school climate. This toolkit contains an implementation readiness guide, sample plan, and details six steps that can move a school through a change process.
Provides a unifying framework for schools, families, and communities to understand, select, and organize their learning supports (i.e., strategies, programs, and practices used to create conditions to enhance learning).
Coe College has received a $15,350 Institutionalizing Community-Based Pedagogies grant from the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. The grant will support the creation of a new Prison Learning Initiative at Coe which will provide a range of high-impact experiences for students and community members to learn about and become involved with the criminal-legal system in Iowa and the Midwest.
Reports on ways Oregon State University and the City of Corvallis are working together to promote safe, healthy, and conducive learning environments and mitigate the negative effects of a growing campus. Such interventions include restricting alcohol promotions, enforcing underage drinking laws, limiting cheap alcohol availability through sensible alcohol excise tax policy, enacting social host regulations, and facilitating responsible service tr
When Forrest Beesley first learned about an Oregon City clinic that would help him remove old charges from his criminal record for free, he thought it was a prank. Expungement services are in high demand this year after Oregon stopped charging a $281 filing fee per case, advocates say. And institutions like Portland Community College are stepping up to help fill that need.
College Housing Northwest (CHNW) is an Oregon-based non-profit that owns and operates affordable housing options for college students who are able to find stable housing and earn their degrees.