Adult Career Pathways Resources
Adult Career Pathways Basics
What is a fully-realized adult career pathway? What are the key elements required for effectiveness and sustainability of adult career pathway programming? What do federal WIOA regulations say about adult career pathways and ABE’s role? How do integrated education & training and adult career pathways relate and intersect? What is Minnesota’s approach to adult career pathways? These tools and reference materials will help answer many of these questions and guide you in setting the foundation for best practices in adult career pathway programming.
ACP Program Development for Managers
Minnesota's ACP Program Development Cohort provides ABE managers with a facilitated, supported, year-long cohort as they work to create or strengthen a career pathway program in collaboration with WIOA partners in their localities. Key features include an experiential learning approach, a mix of face-to-face and online interaction and presentation, peer partners, coaching calls, goal-setting, and local action steps.
Adult Career Pathways Glossary
Confused about Adult Career Pathways and transitions terminology? You're not alone! Check out this handy ACP glossary.
Career Pathways Checklist
This user-friendly 10-page checklist is designed to help determine the extent to which a newly developed or existing ACP program meets the requirements for career pathways as outlined in WIOA.
Career Pathways Toolkit: An Enhanced Guide and Workbook for System Development
Organized around six key elements of career pathways, each section includes resources and writable worksheets to help state and local ACP teams with implementation. (Downloadable PDF available online)
LINCS Career Pathways Exchange
A free information service that consolidates and distributes career pathways-related resources, events, and information from federal and state agencies and partner organizations. The Exchange streamlines information from multiple outlets to facilitate a deeper national dialogue on career pathways systems development and implementation.
Minnesota ABE Comprehensive Career Pathways
A 13-slide PowerPoint with embedded audio that provides useful graphics and basic orientation to the what and why of adult career pathway programming and the role of ABE in these multi-partner efforts.
National Career Pathways Network (NCPN)
NCPN is a membership organization for educators, employers and others involved in the advancement of Career Pathways, career technical education, and related education reform initiatives. NCPN assists its members in planning, implementing, evaluating, and improving secondary and postsecondary transition programs.
National College Transitions Network (NCTN)
NCTN’s purpose is to strengthen policy and practice that prepares nontraditional learners for college and careers. The NCTN website includes tools and resources, technical assistance and information on numerous professional development opportunities.
WIOA Definition of Career Pathways
A one-page easy reference that outlines the seven criteria for career pathways as described in WIOA regulations, along with further explanation of a few of the terms in the definition.
Adult Career Pathways Glossary
Confused about Adult Career Pathways and transitions terminology? You’re not alone! See this handy ACP glossary.