Monthly Archives April 2018

KRA Monthly Spotlight!

April 30, 2018 | No Comments

Smooth Career Path Ahead for KRA Customer – In December 2017, Darian enrolled in YouthWorks!—a career-development program for Out-of-School Youth and young adults (18-24)—operated by KRA for the Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corporation (AAWDC). Adhering to the Maryland Workplace Excellence Program, co-developed by AAWDC, YouthWorks! combines career assessment and guidance with workplace-skills training to equip young jobseekers with resources that maximize their potential for long-term workforce success. James LeBlanc, KRA Program Manager, reported, “Darian was the ideal candidate for Youthworks! During a Workplace Excellence Workshop, our Career Exploration Team discovered he was committed to a healthy lifestyle…vegetarian diet; daily exercise; and creating his own
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Federal Judge: Trump Administration Must Accept New DACA Applications

April 25, 2018 | No Comments

(Reprint from The Washington Post – April 25, 2018) A D.C. federal judge has delivered the toughest blow yet to Trump administration efforts to end deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, ordering the government to continue the Obama-era program and — for the first time since announcing it would end — reopen it to new applicants. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates on Tuesday called the government’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program “virtually unexplained” and therefore “unlawful.” However, he stayed his ruling for 90 days to give the Department of Homeland Security a chance to
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USDOL Announces $82.5 Million Grant Program for Incarceration-to-Workplace Transition

April 16, 2018 | No Comments

On March 14, part of Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2018, by Peter Wagner, Executive Director of the Prison Policy Initiative and Wendy Sawyer, Senior Policy Analyst, read, “The American criminal justice system holds almost 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 1,852 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,163 local jails, and 80 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S. territories. Every year, 626,000 people walk out of prison gates, but people go to jail 10.6 million times each year.” On April 4, not directly related…but definitely relevant…to
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KRA Supports TechHire San Diego

April 12, 2018 | No Comments

Recently, the San Diego Union-Tribune published a Commentary, written by Barbara Bry, San Diego City Council president pro tem, and Ji Shen, CEO of HoverCam, on “How San Diego is Growing Local Tech Talent.” It read, in part, “San Diego is beginning to act locally by developing, sourcing, hiring and investing in its own tech talent. TechHire, a program administered by the San Diego Workforce Partnership, is aimed at increasing the number and diversity of qualified tech talent in San Diego.” Through TechHire, a national initiative, businesses can hire candidates for project-specific-internships at no initial cost, due to the first
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