Welcome to issue number 82 of the free newsletter published by Robbin and Associates! Over 20,000 people read this newsletter. It is read by management, staff and leaders in workforce development, career counseling, social services, nonprofits, government agencies, training providers, schools and many other types of organizations. You can see over 500 articles from back issues of the newsletter on our website at https://larryrobbin.com/v2/newsletter-archive/.

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FOUR LARRY ROBBIN UPCOMING WEBINARS INCLUDES A THREE PART SERIES OF REENTRY WEBINARS AND A FREE YOUTH

RECRUITMENT WEBINAR!

Click here https://larryrobbin.com/v2/ for links to descriptions and registration information for four Larry Robbin upcoming public webinars. The webinars include a three part series sponsored by the Oregon Workforce Partnership focused on strategies for improving the employment outcomes of justice involved individuals. The first webinar in that series is on May 15th. A FREE webinar sponsored by the National Youth Employment Coalition titled, Make Your Program a Magnet! Going Beyond Social Media to Recruit Opportunity Youth! will be presented on June 12th.

LARRY ROBBIN RECEIVES THE LEGACY AWARD FROM THE NATIONAL YOUTH

EMPLOYMENT COALITION!

Thanks to the National Youth Employment Coalition (www.nyec.org) for giving me the Legacy Award for my history of work in the youth employment field. I am honored to receive this recognition. Thanks NYEC!

FELON FRIENDLY JOBS AND EMPLOYERS

https://www.ilnp.uscourts.gov/pdfs/List_of_Felon_Friendly_Employers (002).pdf

Click here for information about the training Larry Robbin provides for programs serving justice involved individuals.

WORKFORCE RECRUITMENT PROGRAM

FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Connects college students and recent graduates with disabilities with employers

https://disability.workforcegps.org/resources/2023/08/24/17/24/Workforce-Recruitment-Program

SKILLS BASED HIRING IS GAINING GROUND

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/right-skills-right-person-right-role

LOOKING FOR NEW STRATEGIES TO HELP DISLOCATED WORKERS

GET REEMPLOYED IN LESS TIME?

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OF LARRY’S TRAINING

FROM PINK SLIP TO PAYCHECK!

HOW TO GET DISLOCATED WORKERS

REEMPLOYED FASTER THAN EVER!

Packed with practical proven employment counseling and job search strategies!

STEPS TO STARTING A WORKER

OWNED COOPERATIVE

https://institute.coop/sites/default/files/resources/348 1997_Hansen et al_Steps to Starting A Worker Coop.pdf

Worker owned cooperatives are one of the least well known strategies in workforce development. This is a real problem because there are a wide range of under-appreciated benefits that can come from helping people start a worker owned cooperative. This model is actually often more successful than traditional models for employment. Also, worker owned cooperatives are an excellent employment strategy for programs serving undocumented individuals. This excellent report will help you add this strategy to the employment strategies you offer your job seekers. 

WHY DO SO FEW WORKERS PARTICIPATE IN APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS?

https://www.thirdway.org/report/why-do-only-a-tiny-fraction-of-jobseekers-participate-in-registered-apprenticeships

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TOOLKIT FOR DEVELOPING

HIGH LEVEL INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS

https://nationalfund.org/industry-partnership-toolkit/

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16 FREE ASSESSMENT TOOLS TO

HELP CLIENTS FIND THEIR FIT

https://careerwise.ceric.ca/2024/10/18/free-career-assessment-tools/?mc_cid=b9bb3c3b08&mc_eid=2986402614

Are you assessing people for their barriers or their strengths. For information about our webinar on doing a strength based assessment, Digging for Gold! How to Find Hidden Assets to Employment in the Hard-to-Employ click here.

COORDINATED PREVENTION APPROACHES TO SERVE THE WHOLE PERSON

https://mathematica.org/publications/coordinating-integrated-prevention-approaches-to-serve-the-whole-person

Supporting families and individuals means understanding that their needs are complex, interrelated, and affected by the particular opportunities available in their environments. Integrated service approaches to prevent homelessness or involvement in systems like child welfare may be best positioned to succeed when they center families’ strengths, needs, and identities and when they coordinate access to resources and services—such as housing, physical and mental health care, food and nutrition, workforce development, and cash support. This brief highlights the efforts made by select programs to coordinate services and supports for program participants, including how sites identified participants’ strengths and needs and how sites integrated services to be responsive to those needs. The findings are based on interviews with staff and partners from nine different programs across the country and with people who have been served by these programs  

WORDS OF INSPIRATION FOR JOB SEEKERS

1.   "We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes — understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success." - Arianna Huffington

2.   "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." - Carl Bard

3.   "Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz

4.   "The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." - M. Scott Peck

5.   "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

I hope you enjoyed this issue of the Robbin and Associates newsletter. Please take a minute to send me your feedback about the newsletter at larry@larryrobbin.com. Your feedback means a lot to me. Thanks for sending it. Thanks so much for the very important work that you do!

Take care,

Larry Robbin

Executive Director of

Robbin and Associates