Attachment C

GOAL: Statewide Initiatives to Identify, Promote and Disseminate Effective Strategies
That Prepare Youth for Jobs and Careers in New York State

Focus Area #1 Current Mid-Range Long-Range
Expand/enhance business involvement in youth programs Award Incentive grants to expand/enhance business involvement in youth programs

Objective

  • Each grant recipient creates or enhances an innovative partnership among business, education, and the local workforce investment board to expose youth to real world-of-work experiences in demand occupations.

Establish ongoing partnership with Empire State Development (ESD)

Objective

  • Enhance the Emerging Worker Sub-Committee's interaction with businesses, especially small businesses, by working through ESD's regional employer network to connect businesses with state and local initiatives.
 Sponsor 6-8 regional dialogue sessions with business and education leaders, local Workforce Investment Board and Youth Council chairs*

Objectives

  • Relationships among partners are built or reinforced
  • Effective practices for business involvement are identified and shared
  • State and local strategies for increasing involvement are identified and implemented

Create statewide baseline of business involvement and interest in youth programs

Objectives

  • State agency data on employer participation analyzed and used to shape policy;
  • Promising practices and business interest identified through business survey, PEPNET, DOL promising practices incentive grants.
 Pilot a Business-to-Business Mentoring program

Objectives

  • New businesses get involved in youth programming
  • Effective approaches are developed with the help of businesses with established programs and expertise

Sponsor a Business/Education/Labor Summit on Emerging Workers

Objectives

  • Effective strategies are disseminated
  • Relationships among partners are developed or reinforced
  • Policy issues and solutions are identified

Enhance funding to support business involvement

Objectives

  • Strategies for connecting multiple funding streams are identified and disseminated
  • Proposal to maximize the use of state and federal funds is forwarded to the State Workforce Investment Board
*Local chambers of commerce will be invited to host the dialogue sessions with state agencies and other partners.


Focus Area #2 Current Mid-Range Long-Range
Support comprehensive year-round programs for all youth Award 10-13 Challenge grants

Objective

  • Each funded local workforce investment board will demonstrate new partnerships, leverage multiple funds, and integrate youth services into one-stop delivery systems as part of year-round programs for youth.

Coordinate technical assistance to disseminate effective practices*

Objectives

  • Youth partners and funded programs will receive on-going support through conferences, workshops, information & staff support.
  • Effective practices identified through challenge and incentive grants, PEPNET, DOL promising practices incentive grants will be disseminated statewide.
 Sponsor an Emerging Worker Institute

Objectives

  • Teams from 10-13 selected local workforce investment areas develop and implement work plans to: expand partnerships; increase business involvement; and improve program services for youth.
  • Teams receive on-going technical assistance from partners.*
 Sponsor a Local Workforce Area Mentoring Institute that builds upon the Emerging Worker Institute.

Objectives

  • Teams from 10-13 selected local workforce investment areas develop and implement work plans to: expand partnerships, increase business involvement; and improve programs services for youth, with the help of high performing local workforce investment areas and partners.*
  • Teams receive on-going technical assistance from high performing areas and partners.*


The Sub-Committee will also recommend policy statements to the State Workforce Investment Board, as needed. It will develop recommendations to the State Workforce Investment Board on the reauthorization of the federal Workforce Investment Act as it relates to youth issues including a plan to develop statewide support and advocacy.
*This includes four state agencies (DOL, SED, OCFS, and Empire State Development), the Business Council of New York State, the U.S. Department of Labor and the New York Association of Employment and Training Providers (NYATEP).



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