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American Youth Policy Forum |
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If I Had a Hammer |
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Improved Solutions for Urban Systems (ISUS) |
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LearningWork Connection |
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National Collaboration for Youth |
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National Youth Employment Coalition |
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Promising and Effective Practices Network (PEPNet) |
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Public/Private Ventures |
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U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) - Youth Services |
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U.S. Department of Education |
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Alternative Education 
Defines and describes features of alternative education and how it relates to WIA youth programs.
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Assessment in WIA Youth Programs
This Brief provides technical and practical information about assessment for WIA youth program practitioners.
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Basic Skills Deficient Youth
This Brief explains how WIA youth programs can help youth get the lifetime payoff of good basic skills - higher income, lower unemployment, and better opportunities for advancement and independent adult living.
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Career Pathways
Describes how career pathways--a sequence of educational programs to prepare for a sequence of occupations--helps youth employment and advancement.
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Children of Incarcerated Parents
Discover more about finding and serving young people whose parents are incarcerated - -a targeted population under the New Strategic Vision for the Delivery of Youth Services.
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Contracting
Focused Futures Module
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Dropout Prevention
The economic and social costs of dropping out of high school are severe. In the 21st century workplace, a high school diploma is a minimum job requirement, and the income gap between dropouts and individuals who have completed high school or college is widening. The resources in this compilation offer strategies for identifying and implementing appropriate dropout prevention, including addressing both the individual and school environment, respecting diversity and intervening early.
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Dropouts
This Brief describes some reasons and factors that prompt youth to drop out of school and how WIA youth programs and dropout recovery programs can help youth complete their secondary education.
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Elements of a WIA Youth Program
This module offers detailed information on each of the 10 required WIA youth program elements and tools to assess the quality of activities provided under the elements to help local youth councils, administrators, and service providers meet the requirements of federal and state law, regulations, and policy.
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Follow-Up Services
This module of Focused Futures: Youth Development System Builder provides information and tools to help local youth councils, WIA administrators, case managers, and service providers conduct systematic follow-up activities for youth who have completed participation in WIA youth programs and entered postsecondary education, advanced training, or unsubsidized employment. Legislative, regulatory, and policy requirements, effective practices, and contracting for follow-up services are covered in this module. (2007)
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Foster Youth
Strategies and resources to help WIA staff address the special challenges and needs of foster youth
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Gen Y
This Brief describes some generational characteristics of today's youth --- Gen Y --- and suggests implications for WIA programs.
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GLBTQ Youth
This Brief provides some basic information about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (GLBTQ) youth and how WIA programs can better serve this population.
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Homeless and Runaway Youth
Understand more about the causes, characteristics and challenges of serving homeless and runaway youth in WIA programs.
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Indian and Native American Youth
This brief presents the WIA definition of "out-of-school youth" and describes challenges and solutions for all four types of out-of-school.
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NEW! Juvenile Justice and WIA Youth Services
This Brief provides a basic understanding of Ohio's juvenile justice system and processes to enable local WIA youth programs to meet the needs of offenders as WIA youth participants. (2008) |
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Leveraging Resources
Strategies to coordinate with other agencies and find additional resources to provide optimum programs to youth.
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Managing Program Exits
Learn how 'soft exits' can be a 90-day window of opportunity for informed decisions and appropriate action for your youth participants.
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"Mean Mom" - Presented at "Building Better Opportunities For Youth" - The Third Annual WIA Youth Conference (April 6-8, 2004) |
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Migrant Youth
Describes social and educational issues specific to migrant youth and presents educational, programmatic and interpersonal strategies to address their needs.
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NEW! Multiple Education Pathways
This Brief provides an overview of Multiple Education Pathways, a systemic approach to education that envisions education pathways to meet the needs of all youth in a community organized and integrated into an ecosystem of educational and youth-serving partners that communicate, coordinate, and collaborate with each other. (2008)
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New Report Cites Benefits of Linking Community Service to Academic Learning, National Commission on Service-Learning. |
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Occupational Skills Training
This What Works volume brings together a brief introduction that defines Occupational Skills Training in WIA youth programs and a selection of reprinted resources that describe strategies known to increase the likelihood of youth success in the area.
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Out-of-School Youth
This brief presents the WIA definition of "out-of-school youth" and describes challenges and solutions for all four types of out-of-school.
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Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement
This module of Focused Futures: Youth Development System Builder provides information and tools to help local youth councils, WIA administrators, case managers, and service providers conduct outreach, recruitment, and engagement activities to attract and retain at-risk youth in WIA youth services programs. (2007) |
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Pre-Enrollment Activities, Framework Activities, and Case Management
This module of Focused Futures: Youth Development System Builder provides information and tools on pre-enrollment activities (including recruitment, intake, initial assessment, eligibility determination, and referral), framework activities (objective assessment and individual service strategy (ISS) development), and case management to help local youth councils, administrators, and service providers successfully provide these essential services. (2007)
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Pregnancy Prevention in WIA Youth Programs
This Brief provides background information on youth sexuality; risk factors for early parenthood; and consequences of early parenthood for parents, child, family, and society; and offers strategies for working with youth at risk of early parenthood.
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Pregnant and Parenting Youth
This Brief describes how WIA youth programs can serve pregnant and parenting youth by addressing issues such as the health of the mother and child, family formation, parenting education, and helping youth transition to adult roles.
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Program Design for Performance
Focused Futures Module
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Project-Based Learning
This Brief describes how project-based learning-an educational strategy that relates academic subjects and other skills to real world outcomes--can be used effectively in a variety of Workforce Investment Act (WIA) youth programs.
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Recruiting and Retaining Out-of-School Youth
Tips for attracting out-of-school youth to your program and keeping them engaged.
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Request for Proposals
Focused Futures Module
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Serving Out-of-School Youth
This module of Focused Futures: Youth Development System Builder provides information and tools to help local youth councils, WIA administrators, case managers, and service providers serve out-of-school youth. The module describes the characteristics of out-of-school youth and provides effective strategies for conducting outreach, recruiting, and engaging out-of-school youth. (2007)
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Serving Youth in One-Stops
Focused Futures Module
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Study Skills
Because youth might need help not just with what they learn but also with how they learn it, the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) makes study skills instruction, together with tutoring and dropout prevention, one of the 10 required elements of youth programs. Study skills are learning strategies that help students organize, process, and use information effectively. These skills are important not just for academic learning but also for everyday life. They can help individuals be organized and successful lifelong learners and manage their jobs, households, and finances. What Works: Study Skills provides practical guidance in identifying what help youth may need with study skills and how teachers or tutors can provide the necessary skills for learning.
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Tutoring
Youth who experience difficulties with academics, especially reading and writing, need extra support and individualized attention. Tutoring programs that include research-based elements have been shown to improve achievement in reading and writing. Well-designed and implemented tutoring works because individualized instruction caters to different learning styles and provides feedback and encouragement that are tailored to the learner's specific needs. What Works: Tutoring provides resources that show how tutoring can be effective in motivating youth and describe effective tutoring programs.
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The WIA Youth System
This module of Focused Futures: Youth Development System Builder provides information and tools to help local areas understand the "big picture" - the goals and purpose of the Workforce Investment Act, the
workforce delivery system, and the WIA youth system, including eligibility, programming, expenditures, service documentation, performance, and the responsibilities of local WIA youth stakeholders. (2007)
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Work Readiness Skills
This Brief describes work readiness skills -- skills needed by all workers in any job -- the characteristics of effective work readiness programs, and selected assessment tools to measure work readiness.
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Year-Round Programming
Ideas for integrating summer employment with school-year services to meet WIA requirements for year-round programming.
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Youth and Employers
Strategies you can use to help youth transition to high-skill, high-wage, high-demand occupations by addressing the needs and concerns of employers.
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Youth Councils
Focused Futures Module
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Youth Offenders
Describes the challenges of working with youth offenders and some practical steps that youth workers can take to be successful with this unique population.
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Youth Offenders and Collateral Sanctions
Essential information about sanctions that may prevent youth from obtaining licensure or working in certain occupations or industries.
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Youth Offender Demonstration, Round One, Final Technical Assistance Report Available Online, USDOL-ETA, March 2002. |
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Youth with Disabilities
This brief discusses challenges faced by youth with disabilities in education, employment and the community and how WIA youth programs can serve this population.
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