Refugee Portal: Career & Workforce Readiness for Newcomer Youth Archives

Job Corps Provides Opportunities for Refugee Young Adults

Discusses the importance of career training and highlights Job Corps. The organization offers refugee youth opportunities to learn the skills needed to [...]

What Now? Post-High School, College & Career Readiness

Gain insight into ways to prepare refugee students for college and career, including involving refugee parents in decision making. Promising Practices among [...]

A Developmental Perspective for High School Practitioners On College and Workplace Readiness

This brief draws on research across the three fields of college readiness, workplace readiness, and youth development, to identify strategies high schools [...]

Coursera for Refugees

An education platform that offers online courses geared to refugees on a variety of subjects. Refugees are also guaranteed to receive financial [...]

Job Corps

This is a free education and training program that assists young people (at least 16 years of age) in learning a career, [...]

CareerOneStop: Your Source for Career Exploration, Training and Jobs

This website includes information on training, job searches, careers, and local career help. This is a searchable database for college scholarships. Toolkits [...]

Career Exploration Unit for the Beginning ELL Student

This report includes lessons on career inventory, decision making, goal setting, job and college application practice, and job and career investigation. This [...]

It’s My Life: Postsecondary Education and Training – A Guide for Professionals to Help Young People from Foster Care Prepare Academically, Financially, and Emotionally for Postsecondary Education and Training Success

Gives child welfare professionals recommendations, strategies and resources to effectively assist young people in navigating the complex planning required to attend and [...]