IEL's work focuses on three pillars required for young people and their communities to succeed.
Connecting Families, Schools, and Communities
IEL strives to involve the broader community with public education to support the learning and development of young people. This means helping bring families, schools, and community resources together as partners for the common good.
IEL's work focuses on three pillars required for young people and their communities to succeed.
Building Pathways to Adulthood
IEL improves the capacity of policymakers, program administrators, and youth service professionals in the education and workforce development systems to provide comprehensive, coordinated services to all youth and create high-quality, individualized pathways to adulthood.
IEL's work focuses on three pillars required for young people and their communities to succeed.
Preparing Leaders
IEL prepares generations of youth, community, and professional leaders to work across institutional boundaries to improve policy, practice, and partnerships at the local, state, and national levels.
In October we celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month to highlight that people with disabilities CAN and WANT to work. This year’s theme is "America’s Workforce: Empowering All."
IEL's newest grant to support its Right Turn Career-Focused Transition Initiative just started working in five communities, with a particular focus on apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeships for youth involved in the juvenile or criminal justice systems.
In 2018, we live in a country where across 32 states, our African-American and Hispanic children are living in poverty at a rate at least twice as high as their white peers.
The Blue Ridge Campus of the University of North Georgia in Appalachia uses community engagement to drive one of its flagship initiatives, the Blue Ridge Scholars.
