Utilizing the Stages of Change Model to Design an Employment Readiness Training Program for High Risk Workers: A Collaborative of Community-Based Human Service Professionals and Health Sciences Educators

Jewel Goodman Shepherd; Kaprea F. Johnson; Koren Goodman; Reverend Sylvia Copeland-Murphy

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Utilizing the Stages of Change Model to Design an Employment Readiness Training Program for High Risk Workers: A Collaborative of Community-Based Human Service Professionals and Health Sciences Educators

Jewel Goodman Shepherd, Kaprea F. Johnson, Koren Goodman, Reverend Sylvia Copeland-Murphy

Published in American Journal of Health Research (Volume 4, Issue 2-1)

Received: 27 October 2015 Accepted: 28 October 2015 Published: 21 June 2016

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Abstract

Numerous factors and barriers remain a challenge for high risk workers. Programs that currently exist target self-sufficiency, yet there remains an unemployment rate that is reflective of the need to eliminate cyclical joblessness. Maintaining meaningful employment is the goal for high risk workers as well as mentoring, guidance, and prolonged engagement. Counselors are needed to promote engagement in positive employment training and life-long career development. This manuscript describes a job training program focused on assisting clients in gaining long term employment using a modified version of the Stages of Change as a theoretical framework.

Published in	American Journal of Health Research (Volume 4, Issue 2-1) This article belongs to the Special Issue Interprofessional Education and Collaboration is a Call for Improvement Across the Board in the Health Sciences
DOI	10.11648/j.ajhr.s.2016040201.15
Page(s)	37-43
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Readiness Training Program, High Risk Workers, Human Service Workers

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Jewel Goodman Shepherd, Kaprea F. Johnson, Koren Goodman, Reverend Sylvia Copeland-Murphy. Utilizing the Stages of Change Model to Design an Employment Readiness Training Program for High Risk Workers: A Collaborative of Community-Based Human Service Professionals and Health Sciences Educators. Am J Health Res. 2016;4(2-1):37-43. doi: 10.11648/j.ajhr.s.2016040201.15

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Jewel Goodman Shepherd

College of Health Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Kaprea F. Johnson

Darden College of Education, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Koren Goodman

College of Education and Human Services, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Reverend Sylvia Copeland-Murphy

SCM Vision, Incorporated, Suffolk, Virginia, USA

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Jewel Goodman Shepherd; Kaprea F. Johnson; Koren Goodman; Reverend Sylvia Copeland-Murphy. Utilizing the Stages of Change Model to Design an Employment Readiness Training Program for High Risk Workers: A Collaborative of Community-Based Human Service Professionals and Health Sciences Educators. Am. J. Health Res. 2016, 4(2-1), 37-43. doi: 10.11648/j.ajhr.s.2016040201.15

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Jewel Goodman Shepherd, Kaprea F. Johnson, Koren Goodman, Reverend Sylvia Copeland-Murphy. Utilizing the Stages of Change Model to Design an Employment Readiness Training Program for High Risk Workers: A Collaborative of Community-Based Human Service Professionals and Health Sciences Educators. Am J Health Res. 2016;4(2-1):37-43. doi: 10.11648/j.ajhr.s.2016040201.15

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