Healthy Relationships, Employment, and Reentry

This brief will provide an overview of the evidence supporting the interrelatedness of employment, healthy relationships, family well-being, and recidivism. It will also give the perspectives of expert program practitioners who are successfully integrating programming related to employment, prison reentry, healthy relationships, and responsible fatherhood. Finally, this brief will offer program and policy recommendations for leveraging the positive impacts of healthy relationships on employment and reentry and vice versa

Opportunity Youth Employment Program Case Study: Larkin Street

This resource is a case study on Larkin Street, a program that includes housing and medical care along with education, employment, and career services via their Larkin Street Academy. Larkin Street Academy "meets youth where they are" by offering a range of employment services including YouthForce, a job readiness class, the Institute for Hire Learning (IHL), and Wire Up

Opportunity Youth Employment Program Case Study: Roca

The resource is a case study on Roca, a program that provides employment services, including transitional jobs, to opportunity youth. Roca's target population is high-risk, justice-involved young men ages 17 to 24, who are not in school, are unwilling or unable to engage in traditional social service programming, and are on track to adult incarceration

Opportunity Youth Employment Program Case Study: Daybreak

This resource is a case study on Daybreak, a program that offers emergency shelter, street outreach, housing, education, mental health, and employment services -- including transitional jobs (TJ) within a social enterprise setting -- to help youth get and stay housed. Daybreak's target population had originally been young teens ages 10 to 18, but because of increasing needs the program now gives more attention to transition-aged youth ages 18 to 24

Providing True Opportunity for Opportunity Youth: Promising Practices and Principles for Helping Youth Facing Barriers to Employment

Many "opportunity youth" -- youth who are not working or in school -- would benefit substantially from gaining work experience but need help overcoming barriers to employment and accessing the labor market.Those opportunity youth facing the most significant challenges, such as extreme poverty, homelessness, and justice system involvement, often need even more intensive assistance in entering and keeping employment, and are at risk of being left behind even by employment programs that are specifically designed to serve opportunity youth.This paper builds on the research literature with extensive interviews with employment program providers who have had success in helping the most vulnerable opportunity youth succeed in the workforce. Six principles for effectively serving these youth are identified

Two-Tiered Summer Bridge Programming for At-Risk Engineering and Computer Science Students

In this paper, we report on the summer bridge programs offered by University of Portland to support “at-risk” freshman and sophomore engineering students. We define “at-risk” students as first and second-year students in good academic standing (i.e., not on academic probation) who are behind in their degree progress, either because they were not calculus ready when they started college, or because they did not earn a sufficient grade in one or more courses during their first two years in college. Each program targets students at a different point in their education: incoming freshmen and rising sophomores. We developed these bridges in conjunction with a grant-funded retention program and they have evolved based on quantitative and qualitative assessment data. By implementing these interventions, we hope to address the two major leaks in our retention pipeline: between the first and third semester and between the third and fifth semester, so that students graduate within a four-year timeframe that aligns with their financial aid

K2P2^2 −- A photometry pipeline for the K2 mission

With the loss of a second reaction wheel, resulting in the inability to point continuously and stably at the same field of view, the NASA Kepler satellite recently entered a new mode of observation known as the K2 mission. The data from this redesigned mission present a specific challenge; the targets systematically drift in position on a ~6 hour time scale, inducing a significant instrumental signal in the photometric time series --- this greatly impacts the ability to detect planetary signals and perform asteroseismic analysis. Here we detail our version of a reduction pipeline for K2 target pixel data, which automatically: defines masks for all targets in a given frame; extracts the target's flux- and position time series; corrects the time series based on the apparent movement on the CCD (either in 1D or 2D) combined with the correction of instrumental and/or planetary signals via the KASOC filter (Handberg & Lund 2014), thus rendering the time series ready for asteroseismic analysis; computes power spectra for all targets, and identifies potential contaminations between targets. From a test of our pipeline on a sample of targets from the K2 campaign 0, the recovery of data for multiple targets increases the amount of potential light curves by a factor ${\geq}10$. Our pipeline could be applied to the upcoming TESS (Ricker et al. 2014) and PLATO 2.0 (Rauer et al. 2013) missions.Comment: 14 pages, 20 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal (Apj

Reconstructing Ohio\u27s Ancient Past One Pot Sherd at a Time

The primary focus of our research was to analyze, conserve, and reconstruct ancient prehistoric pottery from the Cramer Village Site, a Fort Ancient-era (AD 900-1200) site located on the west bank of the Scioto River in Union Township, Ross County, Ohio.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/u_poster_2012/1011/thumbnail.jp

Using Assessment to Continuously Improve the Retention & Persistence of At-Risk Engineering Students

At the University of Portland, studies show that students who are behind in their degree progress are not retained at similar rates as their on-track cohort and can be considered “at-risk”. For the past three years, with NSF support, we developed a voluntary retention program to support students who are considered “at-risk” of leaving the Shiley School of Engineering. “At-risk” students start behind or fall behind in their STEM courses, although they are in good standing academically i.e., they are not on academic probation. The Program includes multiple interventions targeted at increasing the persistence and ultimately the retention of these at-risk students, including, among others, year-long counseling focused on community building and academic support, and various opportunities for students to regain cohort status academically. Throughout the NSF-funded Program, we assessed particular interventions using both quantitative and qualitative studies. In this poster, our objective is to present the various iterations we made to the Program based on the ongoing assessments