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Welcome to the State Youth Council for Workforce Services

Welcome to the State Youth Council for Workforce Services. Mission. The State Youth Council’s mission is to coordinate, disseminate and ensure quality services to Utah’s youth. Vision. Our vision is that Utah’s at-risk youth become successful adults. Purpose.

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Welcome to the State Youth Council for Workforce Services

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  1. Welcome to the State Youth Council for Workforce Services

  2. Mission The State Youth Council’s mission is to coordinate, disseminate and ensure quality services to Utah’s youth. Vision Our vision is that Utah’s at-risk youth become successful adults.

  3. Purpose • Coordinate state-level activities for disadvantaged youth. • Establish youth employment and training policy. • Give input to the WIA Strategic Plan. • Provide statewide oversight of service delivery. • Complete assignments from the State Council Chair.

  4. Purpose (continued) • Connect with the State Youth Council and Service Area Youth Advisory Committee: • Decisions about youth services are made locally, forwarded to the State Youth Council and then sent to the State Council. • Provider extension recommendations follow this process based on results of annual provider monitoring. • Best practices are shared for continuous improvement.

  5. Responsibilities • Prepare for, attend and actively participate. • If you can’t attend, send someone in your place. • Get to know your peers: you have a role in shaping public policy regarding WIA youth. • Research issues and help the council come to reasonable recommendations based on facts.

  6. Responsibilities (continued) Members of the State Youth Council are nonvoting members of the State Workforce Investment Board (SWIB) unless the SYC member is also a member of the SWIB. SYC members are invited and encouraged to attend SWIB meetings.

  7. Service Area Youth Advisory Committee Purpose • Coordinate local youth activities. • Create local pathways for Transition to Adult Living (TAL). • Assist the Department of Workforce Services with selecting youth providers. • Provide oversight to the WIA youth provider. • Fiscal • Compliance • Continuous improvement

  8. SAYAC Purpose (continued) • Oversee service area leadership development projects. • Approve statewide youth incentive policy. • Coordinate with other community resources.

  9. Funds Provided by U.S. Department of Labor • Funds are allocated annually. • At least 30 percent of expenditures must be spent on out-of-school youth. • Eligible youth are school dropouts or have received a secondary school diploma or equivalent and are unemployed or underemployed. Youth enrolled in postsecondary education and basic skills deficient are also out-of-school youth.   • Utah requires 50 percent of funds to be spent on out-of-school youth.

  10. Dual Purposes • Help youth succeed in school. • Help youth obtain and maintain employment.

  11. Eligibility • Age 14 to 21 • Low-income • One or more barriers that limit success in school or work

  12. Strategic Vision Out-of-school youth (and those most at risk of dropping out) are an important part of the new workforce “supply pipeline” needed by businesses to fill job vacancies in the knowledge economy. WIA-funded youth programs will provide leadership by serving as a catalyst to connect these youth with quality secondary and postsecondary educational opportunities and high-growth employment opportunities.

  13. Focus Areas of the Federal Shared Vision • Alternative education • Targeted industries: high-growth industries and occupations • Neediest youth: TAL • Improved performance

  14. Framework Outreach Eligibility Determination Assessment Employment Planning Service Elements Deliver appropriate services based on assessment results and negotiated employment plan Stages in the Service Delivery Process

  15. Required Services • The required service elements must be available to all WIA youth participants. Elements are grouped in three categories: • Educational achievement services • Employment services • Additional support services

  16. Service Elements • Tutoring, study skills training and drop-out prevention as part of educational achievement • Alternative school services as part of educational achievement • Paid and unpaid internships as part of employment services • Summer Youth Employment Internship Opportunities as part of employment services • Occupational skills training (postsecondary education) as part of employment services

  17. Service Elements (continued) • Leadership development as part of additional support services • Mentoring as part of additional support services • Comprehensive guidance and counseling as part of additional support services • Supportive services as part of additional support services • Follow-up services as part of additional support services

  18. Performance Outcomes • WIA performance outcomes are negotiated annually with the U.S. Department of Labor. Levels for Program Year 2012 were as follows: • Placement in Employment or Education: 60 percent • Attainment of Degree or Certificate: 52 percent • Literacy and Numeracy Gains: 33 percent

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