Education offered concurrently with workforce preparation and training for a specific occupation is one of the 14 program elements for the WIOA youth program.  This element reflects an integrated education and training model and describes how workforce preparation activities, basic academic skills, and hands-on occupational skills training are to be taught within the same time frame and connected to training in a specific occupation, occupational cluster, or career pathway.

Check out the resources below for information and ideas on education offered concurrently with workforce preparation and training.

Toolkits

• Career Pathways Toolkit: An Enhanced Guide and Workbook for System Development
  
  
• Career Pathways Toolkit: A Guide for System Development
  
  
• Funding Career Pathways and Career Pathway Bridges: A Federal Policy Toolkit for States
  
  
• Career Pathways Catalog of Toolkits
  
  
• Jobs for the Future: Braided Funding Toolkit

Webinars

• Enough Is Known for Action Webinar Series: Career Pathways for Youth
  
  
• Career Pathways: The WIOA Way of Doing Business
  
  
• Best Practices for Career Pathways and Credentials 
  
  
• Dollars and Sense: Using Federal Resources to Fund Career Pathways and Bridges

Reports and Other Resources

• Career Pathways Community of Practice
  
  
• Shared Vision, Strong Systems: Alliance for Quality Career Pathways
  
  
• A Framework for Measuring Career Pathways Innovation
  
  
• Shared Accountability in WIOA and Career Pathways
  
  
• The Pathways to Prosperity Network: A State Progress Report, 2012-2014

• Contextualized Literacy in Green Jobs Training
  
  
• Integrated Education and Training Policy Scan
  
  
• Use of Funds Provided Under the Adult Education And Family Literacy Act for Integrated Education and Training
  
  
• Career Ladders for the Hard-to-Employ
  
  
• Creating Career Pathways for Frontline Health Care Workers
  
  
• Career Pathways Initiatives

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