Rural LISC

In collaboration with our friends at Jobs for the Future (JFF), our Workforce & Financial Prosperity team hosted a refresher session on Skills-Based Career Navigation for our network partners. Led by JFF's Tracey Everett, attendees discussed skills-based career navigation principles, how they see these show up in their current employment coaching, and learned about relevant tools to support job seekers in navigating non-linear job-to-job progression and career advancement opportunities. Relevant tools included JFF's "Get Better Results for Jobseekers with Generative AI" and Google's Career Dreamer.

Did you know that hundreds of thousands of Rural families are at risk of losing their affordable homes forever, unless Congress passes the Rural Housing Service Reform Act (HR 4957/S. 1260)?

In an article in Shelterforce, Mark Kudlowitz, LISC's Senior Director of Policy, explains how passing this bill can help revitalize and preserve USDA’s Rural Housing Service Section 515 program - and why it matters for every Rural community.

Proposed Change to Rural Housing Program Would Address Looming Preservation Crisis — Shelterforce The federal rural rental assistance program would be extended in the proposed federal housing bills—with an important rule change.