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.
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 […]
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.
