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Advancing Outcomes for Youth: Optimal Designs for Pre-Apprenticeships
As an industry-led coalition, the CCD Center recognizes the value apprenticeship offers to ALL learners and industries across the country.

Using Data to Promote Wholistic and Impactful Career Readiness
The state map provides a valuable state-by-state analysis of how students are learning and thriving based state career readiness data.

Career Development for ALL Learners: Starting at the Beginning to Get Ahead
Our youngest learners have a knack for exploration. We need to use their innate sense of curiosity to excite them about the world of work!

Three Reasons We Support The Congressional Bipartisan Opportunity Youth Caucus
The CCD Center supports the Congressional Bipartisan Opportunity Youth Caucus.


Three Ways To Build An Army of Career Coaches: Our Reflections During National Mentoring Month
Throughout January, National Mentoring Month commands our attention. It is a time to celebrate the power of meaningful mentor relationships.

A Lifetime of Public Service: Leo Reddy's Achievements in Policy, Industry, and Education
Earlier this year, the Coalition for Career Development (CCD) Center awarded its founder Leo Reddy with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Investing in America: A Golden Opportunity For Learners to Discover and Enter the Future of Work
Education and industry have a unique opportunity to partner to advance high-quality career development opportunities for ALL.


Quality Education Means Sustainable Career Development for All
As I listened to the recent proceedings of the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), my mind obsessed over one question...


Special Memorial Blog: Meeting a True Giant, Robert “Bobby” Silverstein
There are special moments that continue to reverberate and forever shape our lives. One such moment happened to me years ago when I...


Career Readiness: A U.S. Infrastructure Imperative
In his last State of the Union address, President Biden outlined his administration’s vision for ensuring today’s youth and young adults...


April Blog from our CEO, Eva Mitchell
Internships for ALL: 5 things you should consider American leaders have championed equal education access as a nation for quite some...


March Blog from our CEO, Eva Mitchell
Community College Month Equitable career opportunity is what I believe in and we stand for at the Coalition for Career Development...


February Blog from our CEO, Eva Mitchell
In this month’s State of the Union Address, President Biden made the case to“connect students to career opportunities starting in high...


National Career Resilience Program for Marginalized Youth in South Korea
In 2018, the Ministry of Education and Center for Youth Career Development at National Youth Policy Institute (NYPI) in Korea started a...


Career Development with Elite Youth Athletes
A career as a professional athletes: coveted by the many, realized by the (very) few. Oftentimes, the dream of professional status starts...


CAPE Supports Designing Inclusive Talent Pipeline Efforts for Youth with Disabilities
I am always looking for inspirational brief statements or data points that creates a shared understanding about the value and need to...


A Note from our CEO, Eva Mitchell
I am honored to be the new Chief Executive Officer of the Coalition for Career Development Center, working to make career readiness for...


Engaging Community Organizations in Youth Future Planning
Youth bring various personal and cultural assets into the classroom, but these are often underused in education settings. Community...


Personalized Career & Academic Plans
Our life expectancy keeps growing! How many U.S. adults will reach the age of 90? 100? 120? Many seasoned adults remain healthy and...


Career Readiness and SEL
“I need to know how to explain that social and emotional learning skills are essential career readiness skills to my … elected...


Global Careers Month 2022
Finally, we have strong evidence that when young adults receive access to quality career readiness programs in middle and high school,...


What is Global Careers Month?
November 2022 is the first annual Global Careers Month. What does this mean, you ask? Global Careers Month “aims to shine a spotlight on...
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