Shedding Light on Hidden Barriers

 Workshop: Shedding Light on Hidden Barriers – Helping Those in Career Transition Holistically: Their Success Depends on Identifying All Barriers

• Overview:

Working with all adults, especially those in career transition, requires going beyond just providing instruction and job search support. The unemployed often also face many cognitive and psycho/social challenges as well. The presenter has developed several resources that facilitate adults’ transitions by helping them identify and address their complex needs.

• Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify clients’ needs within three categories: Information, Resources, and Support

• Determine which barriers the service provider can address, and which barriers to refer to other agencies/institutions/professionals for help

• Access resources for cognitive and psycho/social barriers

• Identify clients’ needs within three categories: Information, Resources, and Support

• Determine which barriers the service provider can address, and which barriers to refer to other agencies/institutions/professionals for help

• Access resources for cognitive and psycho/social barriers

• Workshop Presenter:

  • Kathleen E. High, M.Ed., CCSP, FCD-I

• Downloads:

  • PowerPoint File

  • Handout

• Related Handouts:

• The Journey

• Hungry, Tired, Stressed Affecting Your Grades?

• Striving but Not Arriving?

• Delayed Response

• Hidden Rules

• Discerning Seasons

• Paradigm Shifts

• Culture, Education, and Unspoken Expectations

• Boundaries

• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

• Hertzberg’s Theory of Motivation

• Purposeful Living

• Timeline

• Setting Effective Goals

• Happenstance

• Responsible Helper

• Stress

• Related Links:

  • Resources for professionals:
    

• Meet the Out of Work
  

  1. Unemployment and Mental Health: Shoring Up Our Clients for the Long Haul

  2. Work and Unemployment in the Time of COVID-19: Mental Health and Work-Based Implications

  3. Trauma-informed Career Development

  4. Someone You Love is Out of Work and Stuck. Really Stuck.
     

  5. The Closing of the Jobs Gap: A Decade of Recession and Recovery
     

  6. What the Older, Long-Term Unemployed Need
     

  7. Navigating Online Career Exploration and Planning Tools: A Skills Gap Roadmap for Case Managers
     

  8. The Nature of Work and the Social Safety Net

  9. Still Hungry and Homeless in College

  10. 5 Guides to Help Homeless College Students in California

  11. Institute for College Access and Success

  12. Back to College:  California’s 4 Million Adults with Some College But No Degree

  13. State of California Dept. of Ed.- Resources for Career Counseling

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• Articles:
  

  • Fear: A Common Theme in Private Practice
    

  • Navigating Disrupted Careers with Proven Transition Writing Tools:  Guide for Career Professionals
    

  • Why Is the U.S. So Bad at Worker Retraining?
    

  • Understanding and Counseling Clients with Job Loss
    

  • Understanding and Grief in the Context of Job Loss & Lifestyle Adjustment

  • Challenges for Working-Class Students Don’t End at Commencement

  • Interview Evaluation: Community College Adult Education Office (working with dislocated workers)
    

  • The Job Shaming Game: How to shake it off

  • If You’re Over 50, Chances are the Decision to Leave Your Job Won’t be Yours

  • The most consequential, and least informed, decision that college students make

  • Does Free College Work? Kalamazoo Offers Some Answers

  • What I’ve Learned About Unemployment And Being Poor After Applying For 215 Jobs

  • A Gates-funded program meant to keep low-income students pushed them out instead

• Faith-based Resources:

• The Oikonomia Network

• Made to Flourish

• Jobs for Life 

• Flourish Now (church job fairs)
  

• Related Books:

• Transitions

• On Death and Dying (stages of grief)
  

• Related Videos:

• It’s Not About the Nail

  1. Case Study: Christopher Dorner

  • How Stress Affects Your Brain

    How Stress Affects Your Body

• Related Movies:

• The Company Men

  • Up in the Air

  • Larry Crown

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