About YAWLA
The Young Adult Youth Workforce Landscape Analysis YAWLA) Report is Out Now!
Rapid shifts in technology, policy, funding, and young worker expectations are redefining the labor market. How is the workforce system keeping up?
The Young Adult Workforce Landscape Analysis (YAWLA) report is out, highlighting research on the current state of the youth workforce sector, the shifting workforce needs and desires of young adults, how workforce practitioners are adapting to these needs, and where system-level constraints are holding the field back.
The YAWLA report is based on a national survey of 207 organizations across 44 states and Washington, D.C., and 20 focus groups involving 86 practitioners with workforce practitioners serving young adults ages 18–29. A separate brief summarizing the focus group findings is also available.
Join the YAWLA research team on March 5 at 2:00PM ET for a webinar exploring the findings and their implications for the field.
Who is behind YAWLA?
Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW), with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is developing and implementing YAWLA. CSW works to catalyze change in educational and labor market systems, focusing on scalable improvements in worker skills, job quality, and access to opportunity.
CSW manages many research and data-collection projects, notably the Workforce Benchmarking Network (WBN). The WBN is a collective of workforce organizations—along with public and private funders and other intermediaries—who are committed to improving their programming and outcomes through optimizing data collection and data benchmarking.
