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National Reengagement Initiative (NRI) At New Ways To Work Partners With Trellis Foundation To Provide Technical Assistance To Community Serving Organizations In Texas In Support of Opportunity Youth
Aligned with national “Back to School” efforts, this partnership ensures that all young people have the chance to return to education settings regardless of their backgrounds or previous hu Los Angeles (September 10, 2026)— The National Reengagement Initiative at New Ways to Work(NRI) announced today that the organization is partnering with...
Opportunity Youth In California: Disconnection, Persistence, & The Path To Reconnection
Key Variables Of Advanced Prediction Of Disconnection In 2024, 510,727 young Californians between the ages of 16 and 24 – 10.8% of the age group, or roughly one in nine – were neither in school nor working. This report examines that population, the opportunity youth of California, drawing on five...
National Reengagement Initiative (NRI) Joins The New Ways Networks
New Ways to Work Announces that Andrew O. Moore will serve as managing director of the National Reengagement Initiative. With a career that spans more than two decades, the workforce development expert built a nationwide network of dozens of reengagement centers to reconnect tens of thousands of older youth to...
Expanding California’s Substance Use Disorder Counselor Workforce
Labor Market Need And A Grant-Funded Pathway Portfolio Los Angeles County and the broader Southern California region face a sustained and widening shortage of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) counselors. This shortage is a direct constraint on treatment system capacity because counselor staffing determines how quickly people can enter care, how...
What's New
A New Year. A New Ways.
A Letter From Our President
We welcome 2021 as a year of hope and rebuilding. While the Covid-19 pandemic continues to devastate many communities and families, we must continue to advocate for and rebuild our social institutions of education, work and social well-being.
I am proud to join the New Ways to Work team as President and Executive Director. As we enter 2021, New Ways to Work has revised its vision, mission and value statements to reflect our dedication to the field of youth workforce development.
Current Initiatives
Check Out Our Latest Toolkits!
Check out the four Work-Based Learning Toolkits we have recently completed, all of which support early workplace exposures, explain quality work-based learning and the career development continuum, describe work readiness/professional skill standards, and provide definitions of the full range of WBL options. Each toolkit includes support materials, tip sheets, fact sheets and implementation tools. To learn more, or to have us tailor a toolkit for your organization, just give us a call at 707-824-4000 x22.