Credential Seekers
Whether GED or PhD, credential seekers come with a range of
experiences and educational backgrounds. The scope of what constitutes a
credential seeker is limitless: an adult planning to move from a GED
classroom to a college campus; an inmate enrolled in postsecondary
education with the goal of successful reentry: a recent immigrant
seeking to verify professional credentials earned abroad; military
veterans and their families transitioning to civilian life; adults age
50 and older starting an "encore career," or more common
everyday—dislocated workers and displaced homemakers retraining to
quickly return to the workplace. What they share is a drive to continue
learning and build on their skills and knowledge, something today'
economy demands.
What's Working and Where
Name: Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for
Quality Care
Location: Nationwide
Description: $15.8 million initiative to support
work-based learning opportunities for frontline healthcare workers to
help them advance in their careers.
Structures for Success:
- Career paths are developed and readily available to frontline
workers.
- Employer and education partnerships improve access to and success in
skill building efforts for working adults.
- Frontline workers are recognized and rewarded as they build
competencies to perform their jobs and advance to new positions.
- Work-based learning activities link to job tasks requiring these
competencies.
Measures of Success:
- As of Fall 2008, two cohorts in the Southeastern Pennsylvania
Behavioral Health Initiative, part of the Jobs to Careers Initiative,
completed core behavioral health competencies and interpersonal
skills/crisis intervention curriculum modules.
- Findings on the impact of competency-based training will be
available in 2010.
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promising practices in career education and workforce
development.
We Want To Hear From You!
Email us at lifelong_learning@ace.nche.edu to suggest a promising
practice targeting career changers at your institution or
organization.
Please direct questions about this page to:
lifelong_learning@ace.nche.edu
This page last updated on 08/28/2009
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