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Enough is Known for Action

Firing Up Youth Standing Committees

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Moderator

·LaSharn Youngblood, Division of Youth Services

Who is on the call?

Youth Council/Committee Chair or MemberWorkforce System StaffEmployersEducational ProvidersYouth ProvidersFoundationsCommunity Based OrganizationsOthers

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Warm Up – What’s This?

·What one word comes to mind when you think of your Youth Standing Committee? (type into chat)

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Agenda

· Welcome and Goals for Session

· Youth Committees in WIOA

· Where’s the Field Heading?

· Lifting Up Youth Council Proven Practiceso Montgomery County WIB, MD

o Three Rivers WIB, PA

o New Haven WIB, CT

·Ask the Coaches

·What Do You Need to Support Your Work?

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Today’s Objectives

·Share Youth Standing Committee language from the law and operating guidance

·Understand how you are thinking about Youth Standing Committees going forward

·Lift up Youth Council/Standing Committee leaders to illustrate the great work that is already well underway

·Share tools and resources that are currently available

·Identify other tools and resources that would be helpful for all Youth Standing Committees across the country

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Jennifer Kemp

·Division of Youth Services, Youth Policy and Performance Team Manager

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WIOA and Youth Operating Guidance

·While WIOA eliminates the requirement for Local Boards to establish a Youth Council, the Department encourages Local Boards to establish:

o “a standing committee to provide information and to assist with planning, operational, and other issues relating to the provision of services to youth, which shall include community-based organizations with a demonstrated record of success in serving eligible youth,” as permitted by Sec. 107(b)(4)(A)(ii) of WIOA.

·Existing Youth Councils can serve a critical role in helping local youth programs transition to WIOA.

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WIOA and Youth Operating Guidance

·WIOA permits a Local Board to designate an existing Youth Council as a youth standing committee if the Youth Council fulfills the requirements of a standing committee.

·A Local Board may also choose not to establish a youth standing committee at all. If so, the Local Board is still responsible for conducting oversight of youth workforce investment activities.

·Our goal is to provide additional technical assistance about how to establish a youth standing committee

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Connecting with Youth Councils

·National list of Youth Councils, please visit http://www.servicelocator.org/youthcouncil.asp

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Please welcome…

Kate O’Sullivan, Interim Policy Director, National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC)

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NYEC-NAWB Survey

·In partnership with NAWB, NYEC developed a brief survey on the WIOA's 75% OSY priority and other youth-related issues.

·The survey went to all NAWB members and registrants to the NAWB Forum in March, 2015.

·Nearly 100 responses

·Let’s see how you compare to these results!

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Where’s the Field Heading?

Will your local Workforce Board appoint a Youth Standing Committee?

· Yes

· No

· Has not decided

· Do not know

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Will you or won’t you?

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Most Challenging Issues

What are the 2 or 3 most challenging issues that you anticipate in meeting the new requirements? Please select all that apply, and include any additional items under ‘other.’

• Recruiting Out of School Youth• Developing appropriate program models• Finding enough organizations to deliver services• Meeting new performance requirements• Other (select and type into chat)

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Most Challenging Issues

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Technical Assistance

On which topics, if any, would technical assistance be helpful to you as you move forward with WIOA implementation? Please select all that apply, and include any additional items under ‘other.’

· Out-of-School Youth Recruitment

· Appropriate program models for out-of-school youth

· Strategies for participation in unified planning

· Meeting new youth activities requirements

· Meeting new performance measures

· Other (select and type into chat)

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Technical Assistance

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Fantasy Committee

·Imagine your Fantasy Youth Standing Committee.  What does it look like?  Who’s on your roster?  What’s your game day strategy for July 1? (type into chat)

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Challenges Ahead

·What’s the toughest challenge your Youth Standing Committee is going to tackle?

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Montgomery County WIB and Youth Council

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Barbara Kaufmann, Director, Montgomery County (MD) Workforce Investment Board and Division of Workforce Services

Please welcome…

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Youth Resource Map

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Activity

· Contractor was hired, Thomas P. Miller and Associates (TPMA) (January 2014)

· YC generated ideas for data points and items for data categorization.(March 2014)

· YC commented on the layout, format and content of map (May 2014)

· List of youth serving organizations generated by YC and by TPMA research (Spring-2014)

· TPMA surveyed of youth programs – “the map” (Summer 2014)

· TPMA held four focus/input groups (Spring-Summer 2014

· YC Analysis and recommendations (Fall and Winter 2014)

· Final Report (Winter-Spring 2015)

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Recommendations

·Promote awareness among students, teachers, parents and the population in general about the good jobs and occupations over the next 10 years that will not require a four-year college degree.

·Work with all post-secondary schools in the region to provide more seamless transitions between high schools and GED programs to post-secondary and from post-secondary into the labor market.

·Provide more occupational awareness in K-12. Create programs that help students learn about careers and occupations, including dual enrollment (in high school and community college concurrently) and work-based learning opportunities along a continuum from career exploration through skill development stating in middle school.

·Create a pool of funding that will pay for tuition for industry based certifications that are non-credit bearing.

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·Expand apprenticeship programs and work-based learning opportunities.

·Catalyze the development and use of technology.

·Establish a method to project population in geographic corridors on an annual basis to help programs know when and how to expand if the opportunity arises.

·Meet with the local elected officials in each area, especially those with the least “access points” to present findings and to work together to create more access points.

Recommendations

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Three Rivers WIB and Youth Council

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Please welcome…

·Stefani Pashman, CEO, 3 Rivers Workforce Investment Board

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Youth Workforce Development Program Logic Model

Inputs

• Allegheny County & City of Pittsburgh youth between 14 -24yrs old who are in school or have dropped out

• Eligible youth are low income (at or below poverty line) and need an extra “push” or another door opened for them

Activities

• Tutoring• Dropout

Prevention• Alternative Ed.• Paid & Unpaid

Work Exp.• Occupational

Skill Training• Leadership

Development• Mentoring• Supportive

Services• Comprehensiv

e Guidance & Counseling

• Career Awareness

Outputs

• No. of youth who enter employment, post-secondary education, or training

• No. of youth who have a clearly defined career path and long term life goals

• No. of youth who have had at least 1 job and know the value of hard work

Currently enrolled over 750 youth

50% are in school and 50% are dropouts representing diverse neighborhoods in City & County

Current system of 19 providers

Recruiting Summer Job Opportunities for 2,000 eligible youth

Robust monitoring & evaluation model with data tracking system to track outcomes & impact, which drives system design

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Summer Youth

Year Round Programming

Strong linkages

across sectors

System building and alignment

·YPC leadership led to collaborative effort to partner with City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County for Summer of Learn and Earn, serving 2,000 youth.·Focus on youth learning to work by working drove development of new program models in recent funding opportunity for community based organizations. ·New portfolio of youth programs and new partnerships with providers helps to link education and workforce efforts.

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New ISY and OSY Model Development

· Infuse best practice research.

· Data driven model development and increased accountability.

· Understand ROI: number of youth served and cost per person/outcome

· System management: Fewer/more providers? How much technical assistance will be needed?

· Special populations: Call to serve under WIOA

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Next Steps

·Build on successes of Youth Policy Council to create board committee structure that advances mission and supports system

·Grow business voices in youth programming and committee

·Engage providers in redefining partnership

·Continue to build the system

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New Haven WIB and Youth Council

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Please welcome…

Jennifer Quaye, Manager, Post High School Planning and

Recruitment, Common Ground High School, New Haven, CT

Jim Ieronimo, Executive Director, United Way of Meriden &

Wallingford, CT

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New Haven, CT Youth Council: Our Story

· Twelve years ago, after the consolidation of two boards, Workforce Alliance had a Youth Council that was well-intentioned but middle-aged and it decided to add two to three youth as full members

· These youth members took on increasingly larger roles beginning with learning about RFPs and helping on the reading and scoring

· Youth planned and ran our Youth Info Workshops to engage new program providers as well as update our current ones

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· Youth, like Jennifer Quaye,  eventually graduated but remained connected by developing mentoring and other opportunities for the youth we serve

· Under WIOA, we will be a standing Youth Committee (with youth participation) that looks to engage new providers as well as transition former ones to the new model

· Our challenge is to stay relevant to our youth members so that they continue to participate on a high level

New Haven, CT Youth Council: Our Story

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·Dedicated time at every meeting for youth, and eventually youth became fully integrated into the conversation

·Engagement with the summer youth employment program

·Youth Council Chair served as a mentor – Chair also sponsored youth retreats for professional development

·Central to RFP processes – Reviewed applications, convened local youth programs for Q & A, etc.

New Haven, CT Youth Council: Our Story

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Coaches Corner

Lori Strumpf, Owner, Strumpf Associates

Steve Trippe, President and Executive Director of New Ways to Work

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Resources

·Toolkitso Cooperative Youth Services and Best Practices: A Youth Council Resource Guide, a

resource from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development http://mn.gov/deed/images/YouthCouncilGuide.pdf.

o New Ways to Work Youth Council Toolkit: A Guidebook with resources and lessons learned from Youth Councils in California

o http://www.newwaystowork.org/Resources/youth-councils.aspx

o Recipes for Success: Youth Council Guide to Creating a Youth Development System Under WIA by John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. http://www.doleta.gov/youth_services/pdf/recipes-ycouncil.pdf

o “Youth Council Toolkit: Tools to Help Youth Councils Build Effective Operational Youth Service Delivery” : at http://www.doleta.gov/youth_services/toolkit_2002.cfm

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Thank You for All You Do!