New Ways To Work
For nearly 40 years, we have brought together local leaders, practitioners and organizations to prepare youth for the future.
The Latest News & Articles
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...
ICE Operation “Metro Surge” In Minnesota, Makes Youth Frightened To Go To School & Work, Creating Greater Number of Disconnected Youth
Donate Now Media Inquiries Reaching At Promise Association (RAPSA) launches campaign to support disconnected students in Minnesota due to recent ICE Raids. As ICE unleashes terror in Minnesota, students throughout the state are avoiding school—severely accelerating disconnection rates. In response to this turmoil, RAPSA has launched a national campaign to...
Southern Nevada’s Opportunity Youth Coalition Strategic Action Plan
Disrupting The Disconnected Youth Pipeline The Opportunity Youth Coalition (OYC) is a major systems-level effort led by Workforce Connections (WC), the Local Workforce Development Board for Southern Nevada, and over 30 key partners aimed at reconnecting youth ages 16 to 24 who are not in school or working. This population...
RAPSA 2025 Forum Wrap-Up
The Reaching At Promise Students Association (RAPSA) conference was a transformative gathering that help unite over 250 educators, community organizations, state agencies, and workforce development leaders from more than 20 states across the nation. Held in a vibrant setting, the conference focused busting down silos and building bridges, through practitioner...
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.