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
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
Many employers check credit histories of job candidates. For jobs that require finance skills, this practice may be useful, but for jobs that do not require a finance background, credit history checks can be harmful for lower-income or at-risk populations … Continued
To increase employment opportunities for communities of color, women, and local businesses, private employers and public agencies alike can expand contracting jobs to minority-, women-, or locally-owned businesses . At the municipal level, encouraging pol URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: … Continued
Community Benefits Agreements are generally used to ensure that plans for new real estate development also provide amenities for the surrounding community. To increase employment opportunities, Community Benefits Agreements should more frequently include URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
Strengthening overtime rules at the municipal level could protect populations or employees who are not currently eligible for overtime pay from working long hours without compensation. Currently, the State of Massachusetts does not require overtime paymen URL: Visit resource Date … Continued
