Breaking Through, a multiyear demonstration project, promotes and strengthens the efforts of innovative community colleges across the country to help low-literacy adults prepare for and succeed in occupational and technical degree programs. The goal is to strengthen post secondary outcomes for low-income adults by focusing on strategies that create more effective pathways through pre-college and degree-level programs.

Breaking Through is a collaboration between Jobs for the Future, an organization committed to strengthening the success of community colleges with all low-income students, and the National Council for Workforce Education, an organization of community college-based workforce development leaders. JFF is a leading innovator in strategies to accelerate education and career advancement for both young people and adults. NCWE committed to this project in order to help its members develop effective pipelines for low-literacy adults into good technical programs.