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Do Employers Earn Positive Returns to Investments in Apprenticeship? Evidence from Registered Programs under the American Apprenticeship Initiative
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Employers experienced positive returns on their investments in registered apprenticeships.
Building Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Employment Outcomes for Individuals With Substance Use Disorders
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This paper reviews promising efforts to integrate employment services with treatment and recovery services for people with substance use disorder.
When Compassion Calls: Addressing the Well-Being of Child Welfare Workers
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"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.
Engaging Employers to Register Apprenticeship Programs: Outcomes from the American Apprenticeship Initiative Employer Engagement Demonstration
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A study of an approach to recruit employers to register apprenticeship programs detected a statistically significant impact on adoption of such programs.
