Dear colleagues:

NCHE is pleased to announce the release of its new brief entitled Supporting In-School and Out-of-School Youth Experiencing Homelessness Through Education and Workforce Partnerships, available at https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/labor-ed-collab.pdf.

Part of its Best Practices in Interagency Collaboration brief series, the brief is designed for educators, including State Coordinators for Homeless Education and local homeless education liaisons, adult education and career and technical education (CTE) program providers, and providers of U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) youth programs, including the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Youth formula program, Job Corps, and YouthBuild. It provides a brief overview of education and workforce programs that may serve youth experiencing homelessness, suggests strategies for cross-system collaboration to support these youth, a spotlights two local programs with promising practices in this area.

NCHE would like to thank colleagues from the U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Labor, and U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness for their assistance in reviewing and finalizing the brief. NCHE also would like to thank the Latin American Youth Center (Washington, DC) and the Los Angeles Performance Partnership Pilot (LAP3) for sharing information about their education and employment partnerships.

Briefs on additional homeless education topics are available at http://nche.ed.gov/briefs.php.

Best,

Christina Dukes, Federal Liaison

National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE)