Shedding Light on Hidden Barriers

Workshop:  Shedding Light on Hidden Barriers – Helping Those in Career Transition Holistically: Their Success Depends on Identifying All Barriers

• Overview:

Working with all adults, especially those in career transition, requires going beyond just providing instruction and job search support. The unemployed often also face many cognitive and psycho/social challenges as well. The presenter has developed several resources that facilitate adults’ transitions by helping them identify and address their complex needs.

 

• Learning Outcomes:

• • • Meet the Out of Work
      
    • Unemployment and Mental Health: Shoring Up Our Clients for the Long Haul
    • Work and Unemployment in the Time of COVID-19: Mental Health and Work-Based Implications
    • Trauma-informed Career Development
    • Someone You Love is Out of Work and Stuck. Really Stuck.
      
    • The Closing of the Jobs Gap: A Decade of Recession and Recovery
      
    • What the Older, Long-Term Unemployed Need
      
    • Navigating Online Career Exploration and Planning Tools: A Skills Gap Roadmap for Case Managers
      
    • The Nature of Work and the Social Safety Net
    • Still Hungry and Homeless in College
    • 5 Guides to Help Homeless College Students in California
    • Institute for College Access and Success
    • Back to College:  California’s 4 Million Adults with Some College But No Degree
    • State of California Dept. of Ed.- Resources for Career Counseling

• • Articles:
    
    • Fear: A Common Theme in Private Practice
      
    • Navigating Disrupted Careers with Proven Transition Writing Tools:  Guide for Career Professionals
      
    • Why Is the U.S. So Bad at Worker Retraining?
      
    • Understanding and Counseling Clients with Job Loss
      
    • Understanding and Grief in the Context of Job Loss & Lifestyle Adjustment
    • Challenges for Working-Class Students Don’t End at Commencement
    • Interview Evaluation: Community College Adult Education Office (working with dislocated workers)
      
    • The Job Shaming Game: How to shake it off
    • If You’re Over 50, Chances are the Decision to Leave Your Job Won’t be Yours
    • The most consequential, and least informed, decision that college students make
    • Does Free College Work? Kalamazoo Offers Some Answers
    • What I’ve Learned About Unemployment And Being Poor After Applying For 215 Jobs
    • A Gates-funded program meant to keep low-income students pushed them out instead

• • The Oikonomia Network
    
  • Made to Flourish
    
  • Jobs for Life 
    
  • Flourish Now (church job fairs)
    

• • Transitions
    
  • On Death and Dying (stages of grief)
    

• • It’s Not About the Nail
    
  • Case Study: Christopher Dorner