- Education seen as the key to attaining employment
- Understanding the job market
- Understanding needed job skills
- Understanding barriers to employability
- Job training for teens
- Identify small & big businesses with job training programs
- Understanding the skill gap, current need and future expectation
- Developing work ethic, personal responsibility
- Developing a way to market job opportunities, maybe a local Monster.com to allow businesses to advertise their needs
- Understand the need to not lose those in the criminal justice system
The initial work program involves at least three sets of activities:
- Define the issue. Take sufficient time to determine the scope of work for the subject area. The focus is, "In what ways does the subject affect persistent poverty?"
- Measure. To identify bench marks for communicating the problem, measuring progress and ensuring accountability. "What needs to be understood in order to craft meaningful change strategies?"
- Implementation strategies. To determine the most effective way to address the problem. To determine the most effective way to include considerations of culture, family and race on successful recommendations.