The Pink to Green Toolkit 1.2 : Adding a Gender Lens to Green Jobs Training Programs Part 2
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Use this tool when considering engaging in or creating a training program that will increase the participation of women in green jobs.
This planning tool guides training programs through critical steps in creating customized strategies and messages for recruiting women.
This tool provides guidance for planning a short orientation to or information session about a green jobs training program. It begins with an overview of the goals of the session, then itemizes the parts of agenda. Each agenda section includes a number of potential topics to present.
If your program is planning a career fair for women, review this checklist and include as many of these suggestions as possible as you prepare and hold your event.
Would you be surprised to learn that Latina women earn an average of only 60 percent of men’s wages? Use this quiz in an orientation or information session to prompt awareness about the need for women to have access to jobs in traditionally higher paid, male-dominated blue-collar careers
Use this tool to create a blueprint and timeline for your program’s outreach, recruitment, and assessment strategy. The template provides a single resource to document and track multiple program goals and objectives, responsible staff, activities, measurable outcomes, and time spent on each activity.
This tool is part of The Pink to Green Toolkit: Adding a Gender Lens to Green Jobs Training Programs, created by Wider Opportunities for Women for the GreenWays initiative. All tools are available online at: http://greenways.jff.org/pinktogreen
Use this tool to identify questions and evaluation criteria that assess a candidate’s fit for your training program and case management needs. These sample questions apply a gender lens to assessment in order to get beyond stereotypes, identify transferable skills, and determine how to best serve incoming participants.
The two checklists in this tool provide an overview of the critical topics in preparing program participants in green jobs training programs to be “work ready” when they graduate.