The STAR Barriers and Breakthroughs Framework identifies six key contributors to STAR economic mobility and the many interventions and investments that can support a STAR’s career progression.
The STAR Barriers and Breakthroughs Framework offers a way to understand the experience of workers who are Skilled Through Alternative Routes (STARs) and to expand opportunities for STAR mobility.
It reflects the lived experiences of the hundreds of STARs who have shared their stories with Opportunity@Work. Any serious effort to improve economic mobility for STARs must take into account the assets they bring to the market and the barriers that hinder their progress.
A STAR’s trajectory in the workforce is rarely linear because their choices are limited in all sorts of ways. STARs shared the following examples:
STARs leverage the assets they have got to make headway in the labor market. Here is just one example:
This interdependent system points to many effective interventions. STARs will be free to demonstrate their full potential if we:
