Healthcare Bridge Program: Adult Secondary Education
Download lesson plans for our Healthcare Bridge Program. Targeted at 9th to 12th grade literacy levels.
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Healthcare Bridge Program: High Intermediate Adult Basic Education
Download lesson plans for our Healthcare Bridge Program. Targeted at 6th to 8th grade literacy levels
Career Foundations: Making Your Education Work for You
Download lesson plans for our Career Foundations curriculum. Targeted at 4th grade literacy level or higher.
Breaking With Tradition: Keeping Adult Students on the MAP
Illinois has a goal that 60 percent of adults will have college degrees by 2025. But without increasing our financial aid investment in low-income adult students, we will not be […]
Transition Services Self-Assessment Toolkit
A toolkit to help bridge programs assess current provision of key transition services and plan for improvements.
Strategies for Success in Career Development (Full Curriculum)
This guide gives colleges, community organizations, and workforce agencies helpful tools to guide adult learners or first-time college students at different levels of experience and education through in-depth career exploration […]
Single Mothers and College Success
This policy brief focuses on six key areas in which federal and state policy changes could result in increased retention and graduation rates for single-parent students.
Progress, Pathways, and Possibilities: How a Shared Vision Put a System to Work
This piece takes the reader through the different parts of our work to establish and expand career pathways in Chicago and Illinois, beginning with Shifting Gears in the early 2000s […]
Non-Traditional Student and Single Parent Accessibility Self-Assessment
A toolkit to help colleges and universities assess their provision of services and supports to non-traditional and parenting students, and to make plans for improvements.
Monetary Award Program (MAP) Factsheet
Why is funding for MAP so important? This fact sheet outlines how the needs-based grant impacts students, and why it is important to Illinois’ workforce that the program is fully-funded.
Low-Income Single Mothers at Community College
This policy brief provides recommendations on immediate steps colleges can implement to improve their schools and increase retention and completion rates for single mothers who are students.
Good for Students, Good for Colleges: Investing in Bridge Programs as a Strategy for Success
Community colleges are at a crossroads. Pressure is mounting to increase enrollment and improve retention. At the same time, there are millions of adults who would benefit from a college […]
Good for Students, Good for Colleges: Bridge Programs Investments and Returns Worksheet
This worksheet is a companion to the policy brief, Good for Students, Good for Colleges: Investing in Bridge Programs as a Strategy for Success to allow colleges to calculate their […]
Fourth Year Sophomores? Improving Remedial Student Outcomes in Illinois
Fifty-one percent of first-time community college students in Illinois take remedial or developmental courses before they can start college-level coursework, and too many never graduate. This policy brief outlines clear […]
Certificate, Degree, and Transfer Programs: Student Handout Template
Gives students a roadmap for the application process and helps them better prepare for their first session with their advisor, including exploring different careers before they choose a major.
Certificate, Degree, and Transfer Programs: Advisor Template
Helps advisors better assess student needs and connect them to resources before student challenges become barriers to completion.
Building Bridges to College and Careers for Illinois Adults
This policy brief gives a brief overview and description of bridge programs, which provide a path into education and training for adults with low literacy and math skills.
Bridging the Gap
What is a bridge program? This fact sheet explains what bridge programs are, and how Women Employed is leading the effort to implement bridge programs in Illinois and nationwide, giving […]
Bridges to Careers for Low-Skilled Adults (Full Guide)
This 125-page guide provides concrete guidance on how to develop and implement “bridge programs,” which help adult students improve their basic skills and succeed in college. The guide contains information […]
Breaking with Tradition: Investing in Bridge Programs as a Strategy for Success
Community colleges are facing pressure to increase retention and completion rates. Enrollments and funding are declining. This fact sheet shows how bridge programs can be a strategy for success for […]
Breaking With Tradition: Adult Learners Essential to Illinois’ College Completion Goal
The State of Illinois has instituted a goal to ensure that 60 percent of Illinois adults have a college credential by 2025. This fact sheet shows how important adult learners […]
2018 Annual Report
Doubling Down on Rising Up, Together. Since 1973, Women Employed has been making change in the workplace to elevate us all. We have stood up for equal opportunity and economic […]
2017 Annual Report
Moving Forward, Together. In a tumultuous year for our country, we have forged ahead to ensure all women can access fair workplaces, quality jobs, and education and training leading to […]
2016 Annual Report
This is How Change Happens. It’s never a straight line. Advocacy campaigns are long battles with many twists and turns. New discoveries, barriers, and tactics emerge. Over four decades, Women […]
2015 Annual Report
Not you. Not me. It’s we. The voices of working women are at the heart of our 2015 annual report. Although the women we heard from had widely varying life […]