LEP Guide for Workforce Professional

Contracting with Texas Workforce Commission in 2007, Genesis 21 was able to deliver a comprehensive guidebook providing best practices, innovative concepts and practical applications along with implementation strategies to help the system and its partners better serve the LEP population.

The LEP Guide for Workforce Professionals offers a vantage point from people who have experience in the workforce system as well as vocational education and training. This practical experience aligned with academic research is a perspective no other publication has been able to offer.

To read the LEP Guide for Workforce Professionals click here: LEP Guide.

To learn more about how the guide can help you and your staff better understand, recruit and serve the limited English proficient individual contact Genesis 21.

LEP Training and Technical Assistance

Module 1: Intake and Case Management

This module can used to guide effectively, culturally responsive intake and case management for LEP customers introducing key concepts, promising practices, and strategies that can be used to maximize efforts and ultimately enhance the quality of the services provided.

Module 2: Non-Traditional Occupations and Entrepreneurial Opportunities

This module can be used to develop and implement effective strategies to support women with limited English proficiency as they consider occupations that are not traditionally held or sought by women or embark on upon a path leading to small business ownership.

Module 4: Comprehensive Assessment for customers with LEP

This module can be used to guide the selection and use of appropriate assessment tests for LEP customers to ensure that the skills and abilities of these customers are assessed appropriately in order to make sound referrals to employers or training providers.

Module 3: Scorecard for Evaluating Training Services for LEP Customers

This module uses a balanced scorecard approach to assist workforce professionals in evaluating quality work-based ESL training courses. Five different scorecards measure unique areas that are critical to delivering LEP training programs based on local business demand.