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To ensure successful implementation, we recommend following a set of best practices and frameworks, including SMARTER goals, DMAIC methodology, Six Sigma, and Design Framework Thinking. By leveraging these practices in conjunction with an Employment Social Enterprise focus, we can develop a strategically-oriented service that effectively reduces recidivism by offering job training, employment prospects, and support services.

Outside Reading

• US Department of Labor investigation into inmate’s violent attack on nurse finds South Bay facility failed to institute safety procedures
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• US Department of Labor cites Cartersville chemical manufacturer after 52-year-old employee suffers fatal burns
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• US Department of Labor cites Massachusetts concrete contractor for crushing, fall, energy hazard violations after employee fatality
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• Full Circle 12-01-2023; 2nd Annual Memorial Walk For Justice For Timothy Charles Lee
  by First Voice Apprenticeship
  This week on Full Circle we will check out sounds from the 2023 Memorial Walk for Justice for Timothy Charles Lee. A young Black/Indigenous gay man who was found hanging in a fig tree near the Concord BART station  in 1985. On tonight’s show, we’ll hear some voices from the Memorial event. Including Richmond City […]
• FULL CIRCLE 11-24-23 NO THANKSGIVEN SUNRISE GATHERING & PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY ON ALCATRAZ ISLAND
  by First Voice Apprenticeship
  This week on Full Circle we will take it to “The Rock”,  Alcatraz,as Indigenous people gather for the annual No Thanks Given Sunrise Gathering. On tonight’s show, we’ll hear some voices from the island as thousands of people honored/memorialized and mourned the day. We’ll also be joined by our special guest you met a couple […]
• Full Circle 11-17-2023; Cease Fire Now! Free Palestine!
  by First Voice Apprenticeship
  This week on Full Circle we have community updates for you. First on tonight’s show, we’ll get a heads up on a planned rally and ceasefire march happening tomorrow at North Berkeley BART, and a caravan to MLK Memorial Park. Then we’ll hear some voices from the bay bridge takeover yesterday when hundreds of protesters […]
• Full Circle 11-10-2023; Free Palestine, Indigenous Solidarity Rally for Palestine
  by First Voice Apprenticeship
  This week on Full Circle we focus our attention with the rest of the world on the ongoing atTemted genocide in Palestine. On tonight’s show, we’ll hear an interview with Palestinian American and social justice activist Layla Darwish as she shares her thoughts on her family in Palestine and her silencing on social media. After […]

• Adult Literacy & Apprenticeship: Making the Skills Connection
  by Literacy Northwest
  This is the third and final Learn Launch podcast. It focuses on the relationship between apprenticeship and adult literacy programming.
• Workplace Literacy: Community Supports & Resources
  by Literacy Northwest
  This Learn Launch will focus on resources, tips and building capacities with employers and other key stakeholders in the world of workplace literacy.
• Adult Literacy: Your Gateway to Workplace Productivity
  by Literacy Northwest
  This Learn Launch will focus on how employers can develop and build their own workforce by utilizing local adult learning centres and working with Literacy and Basic Skills Networks.