School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports establish positively-stated behavior expectations of students and staff. Students are praised and rewarded based on their compliance with these expectations and school-wide behavior is monitored r URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
There are tremendous cognitive and non-cognitive benefits to early childhood education. Additionally, free early childhood education programs can reduce the costs of early childcare. Despite these benefits, pre-kindergarten programs are not always publicl URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
College access programs are designed to help underrepresented, low-income, or first generation college students get into college. These programs offer services like college counseling, mentoring, academic enrichment, and college application guidance. Muni URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
Employers who support worksite-based nutrition and physical activity programs can help improve the health outcomes of their employees. Specific programs combatting obesity have encouraged behavior change through workplace spaces for physical activity, aug URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
To help ease the costs associated with transportation, employers can provide transportation benefits that come in the form of subsidies for parking, public transportation, or bicycle maintenance or pre-tax transportation cost contributions. Some municipal URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
To reduce wage discrimination—which, for example, lead to wage gaps across gender and race and ethnicity—employers should consider implementing a pay transparency policy. Effective pay transparency policies provide employees with access to information abo URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
The costs of childcare and eldercare are rising. This has placed an unfair burden on working families, especially working mothers, who have to balance the demands of caregiving with providing income. Employers can help by offering subsidies to help pay … Continued
People with severe disabilities are often able to enter the workforce through supported employment. Through supported employment opportunities, people who, for example, suffer from mental illness, have a team of vocational specialists and mental health wo URL: Visit resource Date … Continued
Currently, many employers require job candidates to check a box about whether they have been arrested, convicted, or incarcerated . This practice makes it difficult for previously incarcerated individuals to find employment. What’s more, due to discrimina URL: Visit resource … Continued
High quality reentry programs for the formerly incarcerated can help support employment for this population. These programs focus on job retention, coordinate employment and criminal justice commitments, develop a network of potential employers, and are s URL: Visit resource Date … Continued
