This resource explains how community asset mapping can help organizations identify and mobilize the strengths within their communities. It offers a detailed guide to identifying assets, enabling better use of existing resources, addressing service gaps, and fostering collaboration.
Internationally trained physicians, or IMGs, often face significant barriers to health care workforce reentry in the United States due to systemic barriers to licensure. Some states have taken steps to address such barriers. This brief provides an overview of state policy models to open pathways to licensure.
WES offers these recommendations to our federal partners as part of our shared commitment to helping create a resilient and healthy economy that provides mutual benefit for individual New Americans and whole communities alike.
Discover twelve steps to launching a successful group mentoring program for immigrants and refugees. These programs offer employers new ways to tap into hard-to-access talent pools, while providing job seekers an effective way to enhance networks and build the knowledge and soft skills they need to achieve their career goals.
This guide provides actionable advice that community colleges can implement to help immigrant and refugees overcome common barriers to obtaining employment. Such barriers include credential recognition issues, limited professional networks, language gaps, and more. The guide also features examples of community colleges that have successfully implemented a range of approaches to support this population.
In this webinar, WES’ Debra Means-West moderated a conversation between Upwardly Global’s Emily Logo and Teresita Wisell from SUNY Westchester Community College and NCWE. The panelists discussed ways to address the challenges faced by the more than 2 million college-educated immigrants who experience under- and unemployment in the United States. They also explored the vital […]
This report reviews state-level policy reforms enacted in 2023 to advance more equitable educational and workforce opportunities and outlines inclusive measures that state policymakers can promote during 2024 state legislative sessions and beyond.
Policymakers can open pathways for internationally trained nurses to rejoin their careers by standardizing and streamlining four key areas: English language proficiency assessment, credential evaluation, licensure by endorsement, and alternative pathways to licensure.
A credential evaluation report is an important part of an internationally educated individuals’ ability to make full use of their skills and training in the U.S. States and local communities across the country have developed methods of directing existing federal and state funding to finance credential evaluations for their internationally educated immigrant and refugee residents. […]
The World Education Services e-guide for adult educators provides an overview of barriers to economic mobility faced by internationally trained immigrants and refugees, and offers tips on how practitioners can support this student population.
Presenters from Workforce Matters Funders Network and the YWCA San Antonio will discuss the development, impact, and funding behind their Economic Empowerment and Health Equity Programs—and how these programs support immigrant and refugee women by providing direct access to workforce programming.
The IMPRINT Coalition’s #UntappedTalent campaign advances policies that are inclusive of all workers and open pathway so that everyone has a fair chance of reaching their educational and career goals. Learn more about the campaign and how to get involved.
