# Understanding the Navigating to Success Act

This bill updates how the government helps adults and workers who've lost their jobs find new employment. Specifically, it clarifies and expands the career services that workforce development programs must offer to people looking for work or trying to switch careers.

The main changes focus on making sure people get better information and support when they're job hunting. The bill requires career counselors to assess not just basic skills like reading and math, but also digital literacy and English language proficiency. For immigrants with foreign credentials—like a doctor trained abroad or an engineer certified in another country—the bill adds new services to help them understand how their qualifications transfer to American jobs and what additional steps they might need to take. The bill also beefs up the labor market information people receive, requiring counselors to provide details about actual job openings in their area, what skills those jobs require, what training programs can teach those skills, and which occupations are growing and paying well.

Additionally, the bill expands who can deliver these services. Instead of limiting help to traditional workforce agencies, it now allows community-based organizations—nonprofits and local groups that work with people facing barriers to employment—to provide these career services. This means people who are homeless, formerly incarcerated, or facing other challenges might have easier access to help through organizations already trusted in their communities. The bill also clarifies that counselors should help people find financial aid for training programs, including federal student aid and state education funding, not just programs paid for through the workforce system itself.

Navigating to Success Act

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Navigating to Success Act This bill includes certain activities such as diagnostic skills assessments and information on skills development programs within the provision of career services for adults under local workforce training programs.