Other Resources

Heard, S. and B. Franklin. 2023. Building California’s Forest Resilience Workforce: A Critical Gap In Increasing the Pace and Scale of Wildfire Prevention. The Nature Conservancy.

E. Brown, J. Carlin, M. Lara, E. Martinez, and E. McCall.  2022. Creating Career Opportunities for Formerly Incarcerated Firefighters. UC-Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.

Merchant, E. 2022. Burning Issues : Incarcerated Firefighting Programs in the U.S. MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing.  

Toro, J. The Intersections of Race & Ethnicity with Contemporary Forestry in California. UC-Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management.

Karp, J. 2023. Helping Inmate Firefighters Go From Jailhouse To Firehouse. Law 360. 

C. Johnson, J. Dent, L. Rinner, L. Abdullah, F. Angersola, L. Chaidez, E. Fried, C. Gilbert, G. Kirby, P. Moye, S. Lozano, L. Pollock, and S. Sullivan. 2022. Barriers to Recruitment and Retention of Federal Wildland Firefighters. United States Government Accountability Office (GAO). 

B.S. Hollerbach, K.M. Heinrich, W.S.C. Poston, C.K. Haddock, A.K. Kehler, and S.A. Jahnke. 2017. Current Female Firefighters' Perceptions, Attitudes, and Experiences with Injury. International Fire Service Journal of Leadership And Management.

S.A. Jahnke, C.K. Haddock, N. Jitnarin, C.M. Kaipust, B.S. Hollerbach, W.S.C. Poston. 2019. The Prevalence and Health Impacts of Frequent Work Discrimination and Harassment among Women Firefighters in the US Fire Service. BioMed Research International.

G. MacDonald, T. Wall, C. Enquist, S. LeRoy, J.B. Bradford, D. Breshears, T. Brown, D. Cayan, C. Dong, D.A. Falk, E. Fleishman, A. Gershunov, M. Hunter, R.A. Loehman P.J. van Mantgem, B.R. Middleton, H.D. Safford, M.W. Schwartz, V. Trouet. 2023. Drivers of California’s changing wildfires: a state-of-the-knowledge synthesis. International Journal of Wildland Fire.

Pay Disparity: Cal Fire vs. Federal - Grassroots Wildland Firefighgters (website)

Scoping the Public Health Impacts of Wildfire: A Primer for Stakeholders (May 2024)

Learning the Language of Wildfire - Mop-Up, Fuels, Intensity, Containment, Burn-out, Cold Trailing, Wildland Urban Interface (WUI), Contained, Controlled & Out

CAL FIRE Fuels Reduction 

Free Guide for Jobseekers: Getting the Record Straight: A Guide to Navigating Background Checks 

NRWC Thought Leadership Series: Economic Mobility for People Impacted by the Justice System 

Book: Untapped Talent: How Second Chance Hiring Works for Your Business and the Community by by Jeffrey D. Korzenik 

Free Training Guide from National Reentry Workforce Collaborative (NRWC): Fair Chance Employer Engagement

"How Employers Can Set Formerly Incarcerated Workers Up for Success" by Jeffery Korzenik (Harvard Business Review, 10/3/2022) 

Workforce GPS / Reentry Employment Opportunities seeks to reduce recidivism by helping former inmates find work when they return to their communities and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration.