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Supporting Low-Income Youth for Career Success: The JFF Approach

JFF (Jobs for the Future) is dedicated to helping young people and adults facing challenges succeed in education and careers. Our mission focuses on ensuring that low-income youth and adults obtain valuable postsecondary credentials. We aim to increase college readiness, enhance educational attainment, and promote career advancement through strategic policies aligned with national and state systems. Our initiatives include dual enrollment, streamlined transfer processes, and completion incentives, creating pathways to success for students across various states.

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Supporting Low-Income Youth for Career Success: The JFF Approach

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  1. Complete College Ohio Task ForceSeptember 18, 2012 Michael Collins Jobs for the Future

  2. ABOUT JFF • JFF's mission is to help young people and adults struggling most in today's world succeed in education and careers. We are committed to ensuring that all low-income youth and adults attain postsecondary credentials with value in the labor market. • To accomplish this, JFF focuses on three key goals: • Accelerate the number of low-income high school students who graduate college and career ready with post secondary momentum • Accelerate post secondary attainment and career advancement through education and career pathways leading to credentials with value in the labor market • Significantly alter the national conversation so that aligned education and career advancement systemsare the expected norm and supported in national and state policy and capacity

  3. Where We’ve Worked

  4. Ready for College Build On-Ramps to College Opportunities—policies designed to increase college readiness • Dual Enrollment/Early College—OH, NC, TX strategy to reduce need for developmental education • Assessment and Placement—NC use of multiple measures • Developmental Education Redesign—CT elimination of traditional developmental education

  5. No Time To Waste Accelerate Progress Streamline the path to credentials, degree, & transfer • Intrusive Advising—FL HB 7135 mandated 30 hour advising requirement • Early Declaration of Program of Study—FL HB 7135 and TX HB 3025 • Improve Transfer and Articulation—FL and TX reduction of credit hours for general education core

  6. Help Me Cross the Finish Line Policies that provide incentives for completion • Performance Funding—OH Success Points • Financial Aid for Persistence • Reverse Transfer—Mandated by TX HB 3025

  7. Policy Action to Structure Pathways • High School to College Transition—NC College and Career Promise • Community College Experience—FL HB 7135 and TX HB 3025 early declaration of POS • 2-year to 4-year Transition—FL HB 7135 streamlining general education core

  8. Thank You mcollins@jff.org 617-728-4446 ext. 190

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