ACT Ready for Work
Podcast Episode 32
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Unprecedented skill shortages in labor markets across the United States often intersect with a desire for justice system reform that provides pathways for returning citizens to thrive. When optimized in a regional workforce ecosystem, returning citizens are a high-performing group of working learners to boost a regional talent pipeline. Episode 32 is the second in our two-part series on Preparing Workforce Ecosystems for Returning Citizen Success. We’ll look at a five Ps framework of partnerships, planning, preparation, pathways, and performance, with tips to launch or optimize regional reentry initiatives.
“The whole idea of this grant, it’s to break the cycle and provide holistic support that aligns systems and provides advocacy platforms for returning citizens in the Mississippi Delta”
- Will Coppage, Executive Director of the Washington County, Mississippi, Economic Alliance
Episode Guests
Dr. Roderick Nunn
Executive Vice President of Concordance Academy in St. Louis
Neil Volz
Deputy Director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
Curtis Campogni
Founder of Speak4MC
Michael Williams
Education Consultant, North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice
Will Coppage
Executive Director of the Washington County, Mississippi, Economic Alliance
Honorable Charles Elliot
Presiding Circuit Judge, Morgan County, Alabama