Education Access & Quality
Community Resources
Community resources encompass public, nonprofit, or other similar resources. Health and human services staff can use these resources to better serve FSSA constituents and/or to share directly with constituents.
Skills Building & Job Training
Learning Resources
Learning resources include trainings and other resources that will help staff working in health and human services understand health equity, the social determinants of health, and how to engage with constituents to enhance the overall health and social services provided to Hoosiers.
Educational Attainment
- Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework
- Diploma Requirements
- Overcoming Barriers to Equal Education
- Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE)
- FundEd: State Policy Analysis
- Dividing Lines: How School Districts Draw Attendance Boundaries to Perpetuate School Segregation
- Housing redlining and its lingering effects on education opportunity
- What is the status of educational opportunity in rural America?
- The geography of rural educational opportunity
- First-generation college graduates lag behind their peers on key economic
- School segregation and disparities in urban, suburban, and rural areas
- K-12 education: Student population has significantly diversified, but many schools remain divided along racial, ethnic, and economic lines
- Educational attainment in the context of social inequality
- Why Literacy?
- The relationship between education and health: Reducing disparities through a contextual approach
- Enrollment in Higher Education
- Educational disparities in adult health across U.S. states: Larger disparities reflect economic factors
- Inequality in Teaching and Schooling: How Opportunity Is Rationed to Students of Color in America
- Education and Socioeconomic Status
- Education inequalities at the school starting gate
- New indicators report shows escalating disparities for poor students, students of color
- The United States As a Traffic-Light: How Redlining Divides the Country and Diminishes Education Equality
- Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Education: Psychology’s Contributions to Understanding and Reducing Disparities
- Language Access in Education: Bridging the Gap
- The Lingering Legacy of Redlining on School Funding, Diversity, and Performance
- Day 15: Education Inequality
- Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Education: Psychology’s Contributions to Understanding and Reducing Disparities
- Unequal Opportunity: Race and Education
- Educational Disparities Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Youth in the United States
- Rebuilding the Ladder of Educational Opportunity
- The influence of education on health: an empirical assessment of OECD countries for the period 1995–2015
- Educational disparities in adult health across U.S. states: Larger disparities reflect economic factors
- Career Pathways as a Strategy to Support Economic Security
- K-12 Work-Based Learning Opportunities: A 50-State Scan of 2023 Legislative Action
- Career Pathways Portfolio
- How sectoral employment training can advance economic mobility for workers who face barriers to employment
- Workforce Development Solutions
- Trade and American Jobs The Impact of Trade on U.S. and State-Level Employment: 2022 Update
- Job Training and Equity in Health
- Infographic on Job training and Increased Equity in Health
Skills Building & Job Training
Data Resources
Data resources present data about the issue. They may include data in infographics or other visual mediums. These resources will help health and human services staff understand social determinants of health through relevant statistics, dashboards, and other data content.
Educational Attainment
- The price of college is rising faster than wages for people with degrees
- What is the status of educational opportunity in rural America?
- Rural Students in Higher Education
- Nonwhite school districts get $23 billion less than white districts despite serving the same number of students
- Indiana Department of Education Data and Information Technology
- Indiana Commission for Higher Education Data Dashboards
- Improving educational attainment: Recent trends and challenges
- Adults with college-education parents are much more likely than others to have graduated from college themselves
- State of Higher Education 2024 Report
- Survey: Financial Barriers Are the Biggest Reasons Why People Don’t Enroll in Higher Education
- Post 5: Racial Differences in Educational Experiences and Attainment
- StatsIndiana Educational Attainment
- Educational Attainment by Indiana County
- Educational Attainment in Indiana
- A Stronger Nation through Higher Education – Indiana
- What federal education data shows about students with disabilities in the U.S.
- Characteristics of 2020-21 Public and Private K-12 Schools in the United States
- 10 Facts about Today’s College Graduates
- Postsecondary Education Linked to Volunteerism, Better Health
- Educational Attainment
Skills Building & Job Training
- Disability Employment TA Center – Job Accommodations Make a Difference: Data Points and Implications: Video Webinar and Slide Deck
How Education Impacts Olivia
Meet Olivia—a young artist who dropped out of high school after experiencing homelessness and addiction. Now, she’s taking night classes to earn her GED and plans to pursue a welding certificate. With her passion for hands-on work, Olivia wants to build a stable future.
Get to Know OliviaHow Education Impacts The Jackson Family
Meet Jayden—an honors student, athlete, and anime fan. This high school junior hopes to study aerospace engineering at Purdue. But with financial worries and a baby sibling on the way, Jayden is concerned about the cost and being far from his family.
Get to Know The Jackson FamilyHow Education Impacts The Garcia Family
Meet Elena—a single mom and veteran who is considering going back to school for a nursing degree following the death of her partner. She’s focused on finding better early childhood education for her two children while exploring ways to advance her career and create stability for her family.
Get to Know The Garcia FamilyHow Education Impacts Chris
Meet Chris—a blind substitute teacher who overcame numerous barriers to education growing up in a rural area. With the support of vocational rehabilitation services, Chris earned his bachelor’s degree. He’s exploring opportunities for further education to merge his interests in accessibility and public health.
Get to Know Chris
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Educational Attainment
Higher education leads to healthier, longer lives and financial stability, but barriers like limited income and impractical location can limit opportunities.
Skills Building & Job Training
Job training connects people to careers, offering better employment prospects, higher likelihood of access to safe housing, and a higher quality of life.