New Ways To Work
For nearly 40 years, we have brought together local leaders, practitioners and organizations to prepare youth for the future.
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How To Help As Ice-Raids in LA Damage A Generation
Dear Friends,These last six months have seen an unparalleled attack on our mission to improve the quality of life for youth and young adults throughout California. From the banning of diversity, equity and inclusion policies at the federal level, to the defunding of major educational and workforce initiatives, to the...
From Greenhouse Trainee to Agripreneur: How Soilless Farming and CSS Farms Laid the Foundation for Neso Farms
Being a student agripreneur means learning to juggle lecture halls with planting beds. In 2024, I found myself waking at dawn to tend nutrient solutions and checking textbooks by moonlight. I still picture the day I stood in a sudden downpour, water cascading over me while I adjusted drip lines wet,...
Client Spotlight: Reaching At-Promise Students Association (RAPSA)
A recent Los Angeles Times article sounds the alarm that California school enrollment continues to decline as poor and homeless student numbers rise. In our quest to provide the resources that all youth deserve, New Ways to Work is proud to support Reaching At-Promise Students Association (RAPSA)—an organization that improves...
The Power of Mental Health and Meditation: Tools for a Stronger Mind
Finding Your Best Self Is Easier Than You Think What we often forget is that we are in control of our mental space. Unfortunately, we aren’t given a manual at birth that explains how to manage our thoughts, emotions, or mental clarity—especially in a world full of distractions, pressure, and...
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.