News

• Alliance for Quality Career Pathways

  Washington, D.C., JULY 18, 2012-Ten states, in conjunction with CLASP, the Center for Law and Social Policy, are launching the Alliance for Quality Career Pathways, a national effort to create a framework of benchmarks and measures of success for career pathway initiatives.

• Office of Family Assistance

  Economic Self-Sufficiency Site Visits to Model Employment Programs
  
  Site Hosts:
  
  Career Pathways Initiative - ADHE
  Arkansas State University at Newport
  National Park Community College
  
  

  Watch video - released April 2013.

Announcements

• Ideas for Action 2012 Awardees
  Making Prosperity Possible for All

  The Ideas for Action Award is a competition to develop new thinking to reduce poverty by shining a light on practical policy shifts that help low-income people build their futures.
  Why?
  More than 46 million people are impoverished today - more than at any other point in over half a century of recordkeeping. The poor and struggling have dropped out of our national conversation, reflecting a broader shift in national political attention toward the middle class.
  How?
  Despite facing challenging times, nonprofit organizations and government agencies across the country are working tirelessly to devise inventive strategies to help people get out and stay out of poverty. Nearly 50 applications were submitted to the inaugural year of the Ideas for Action Award. A panel of experts in the field selected four innovative efforts to receive awards that pursue two significant approaches to poverty reduction.
  
  Arkansas Career Pathways Initiative was one of two submissions selected to receive an Achievement Award.

Poverty Simulations

• The ADHE/CPI Poverty Simulation is designed to help people better understand the realities of poverty. Participants include staff members of various human service agencies and local civic, community leaders, and students. This program helps people understand the complexities and frustrations of living in poverty day to day.

  Participants role-play the lives of low-income families. They have the stressful task of providing for basic necessities and shelter on a limited budget during the course of four 15-minutes "weeks."

  ADHE/CPI has 4 certified trainers and provides this professional development opportunity for the CPI sites and their partnering agencies.

  Call ADHE / CPI to schedule a Simulation.

  501-371-2049

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