Adult Education and the Workforce Development System: Partnering to Improve Services
The spotlight discusses the essential role of immigrants in the U.S. labor market and the importance of collaborative efforts within the workforce development system to provide language, literacy, and workforce skills to support their economic integration.
|
This spotlight discusses the critical role of immigrants in the U.S. labor market and the importance of services that support their economic integration. Immigrants represent a significant and growing portion of the U.S. workforce and are essential for addressing labor market needs, especially in multilingual and diverse roles. The workforce system offers programming that serves immigrants and multilingual learners, helping them to gain critical skills, enter the workforce, and obtain good jobs that provide sustainable pay and career opportunities. AEFLA-funded programs aim to integrate immigrants into the workforce by offering various services, such as English language acquisition, workplace literacy, navigation and advising services, and career pathways approaches, including Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education (IELCE) and Integrated Education and Training (IET). The spotlight highlights the importance of partnerships within the workforce development system, including collaborations between adult education providers, workforce boards, training providers, and employers to enable co-development of programs, co-enrollment in workforce training and education, and co-funding strategies to support comprehensive services for adult learners. |
This spotlight highlights innovations in partnerships within the workforce development system to improve holistic services for adult learners, including multilingual learners and immigrants. The examples showcase ways in which adult education providers are deepening partnerships to coordinate services and engage more fully with workforce development boards and employers.
This site includes links to information created by other public and private organizations. These links are provided for the user’s convenience. The U.S. Department of Education does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of this non-ED information. The inclusion of these links is not intended to reflect their importance, nor is it intended to endorse views expressed, or products or services offered, on these non-ED sites.
Please note that privacy policies on non-ED sites may differ from ED’s privacy policy. When you visit lincs.ed.gov, no personal information is collected unless you choose to provide that information to us. We do not give, share, sell, or transfer any personal information to a third party. We recommend that you read the privacy policy of non-ED websites that you visit. We invite you to read our privacy policy.
