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Developing Strong Youth Councils
The
Youth Council Institute Guidebook
The YCi Guidebook brings
together the tools, materials, strategies, approaches and lessons
learned by Youth Councils across the state through the first
two and a half years of YCi. YCi has prepared this Guidebook
to assist and guide Youth Councils across California as they
pursue the development of comprehensive, local systems that
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Functions of
a Youth Council Building the System
This framework illustrates the four functions describing
the roles and actions of a local youth council as it builds
its comprehensive youth-serving system.
Graphic
Framework
Assessment
Workplan |
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Stages of Building
the System
This framework guides the five-stage process of enhancing
capacity to deliver more comprehensive and better services.
Graphic
Framework
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Youth
Council Institute 2005 Impact Report
Over the past four years, Youth Councils across California have enjoyed
great success, due largely to efforts of the Youth Council Institute (YCi),
the State's technical-assistance and capacity-building strategy for improving
youth services in local areas. This report outlines the impacts that YCi
has had, and describes how local Youth Councils and practitioners have
applied YCi's lessons in their communities. |
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Funding
Matrix for a Comprehensive Youth Serving System provides
information on a variety of Federal, State, and private
foundation funding sources available for serving youth
ages 14 to 21 (at time of publication in 2003). The programs
and grants identified in the matrix center on assisting
youth in meeting basic needs, completing educational
goals, and securing employment.
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50
Stories All Youth - One System
50 Stories, All Youth-One System
tells the story of California's fifty Workforce
Investment Boards and Youth Councils. It provides
a snapshot of the initiatives and activities
underway in the summer of 2003. It reflects
the complexity and diversity of the locally-based
workforce development system in California:
urban and rural; north, central, coastal, and
south; youth who are growing into adulthood
in all kinds of cultural, economic, and educational
environments. |
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Engaging Workplace Partners
Engagement
Specialist Quick Guide
To successfully engage employers and workplace partners
to provide workplace experiences for youth, Engagement Specialists
need to focus on the needs of the industry and customer.
This Guide outlines the four easy steps to the successful
engagement of employers, labor, government, community organizations,
and others to support engagement efforts.
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Quality Work-Based Learning
Toolkit (California)
The QWBL Toolkit for California demonstrates how easy
it is for employers, labor partners, educators and School-to-Career
staff to create high quality, safe, and legal work-based
learning experiences for students engaged in School-to-Career
activities. The complete toolkit contains Can Do Guides for
employers and labor partners, as well as a complete guide
for educators and School-to-Career staff. Click the following
link to see the table of contents for this Toolkit .
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Engaging
Youth in Planning and Decision-Making
Strategies for Engaging Youth in Planning
and Decision Making Bodies
Increasingly, Youth Councils, Boards of Directors, Advisory
Councils, Youth Organizations, Schools, and others are recognizing
the importance of engaging young people in their planning,
policy, and decision-making. In 2004 - 2005, Youth Council
staff and members, youth service providers, and youth participated
in several conference calls and workshops exploring this
issue and generating tips for other doing similar work.
Tips
from Youth Councils on Involving Youth
Youth
Involvement and Leadership on Youth Councils
Youth
Involvement on Youth Councils - Strategies
and Ideas
Involving
Youth Self-Assessment
Involving
Youth Workplan
Involving
Youth Progress Report |
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Serving Vulnerable
Populations - Foster Youth
Youth Transition
Action Teams Factsheets
The following documents provide an overview of the Youth
Transition Action Teams Initiative, including the approach,
status, and participating communities.
Factsheet
Initiative
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Stages of Building Comprehensive
Youth Transition Systems
This framework guides the five-stage process of enhancing
community capacity to build a comprehensive youth-transition
system for young people emancipating from foster care
Graphic
Framework
Narrative
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Serving Vulnerable Populations
- Youth with Disabilities
All
Youth-One System: Elements of a Comprehensive Youth-Serving
System
This framework guides partners
in implementing the five key elements of a comprehensive
youth-serving system. Each of these Quality Elements must
be in place to provide a balanced set of services and supports
to youth and ensure their success as they transition to adulthood.
This framework includes additional supports that youth with
disabilities may need to transition to adulthood.
Graphic
Framework
Narrative
Framework-Including Youth with Disabilities
Assessment
Workplan |
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Supporting
Local Intermediaries
The
Intermediary Guidebook
Across
the country, educators at all levels, business people, workers,
parents, and others are creating ways to connect schools and
other youth-serving institutions to the broader community,
and to the local economy in particular. The Intermediary
Guidebook guides Intermediaries in their function to strengthen
and raise the public profile of local, state, regional, and
national organizations that connect educational institutions,
workplaces, and other community resources. |
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Strategic Intermediary Functions
The Strategic Intermediary Functions chart conveys the
four strategic functions of an intermediary: convene local
leadership, broker and provide services, ensure quality and
impact of local efforts, and promote policies to sustain
effective practices.
Graphic
Framework
Assessment
Workplan
Progress
Report |
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Operational
Intermediary Functions
The Operational Intermediary Functions framework describes
the operational functions that must be addressed in a community
system. The eight operational functions fall into four focus
areas: working with workplace partners, working with schools
and youth serving organizations, working with youth, and
focusing on the delivery system as a whole.
Graphic
Framework
Assessment
Workplan
Progress
Report |
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Making
and Managing Community Connections
The Making and Managing Community
Connections frameworks helps a community identify its stage
of development in the system-building process. It also provides
a road map and guide to the systems-improvement process.
Graphic
Framework
Assessment |
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Current Trends Tool
This tool guides teams and organizations through a process
of identifying the condition and position of their organization
in each trend area, and whether you are conducting activities,
connecting to activities, or concerned about the issue.
Full
tool set
Instructions
Table
top tool |
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Positioning Ourselves in the
New Realms Tool
This tool guides teams and organizations with identifying
priority "realms" of focus and influence in their work, and
developing a workplan based on this information and connected
to their strategic functions.
Full
tool set
Instructions
New
Realms Workplan |
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Supporting
Youth in the Workplace through High Quality Work-Based
Learning
Quality Work-Based
Learning (QWBL) Quality Elements
This framework
helps to describe the elements necessary to build experiences
for young people that most effectively promote the attainment
of knowledge and skills in academic, workplace, and personal
arenas.
Graphic
Framework
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Growing
Quality Work-Based Learning
This framework helps a community
visualize and identify its stage of development in the system-building
process. It also provides a road map and guide to the systems-improvement
process. It is a powerful tool for self-exploration and raising
awareness, effective for both small and large groups.
Graphic
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Top 10 Workplace
Skills
This chart illustrates t he top ten skills young people
need to begin work, which were identified by Kansas City
employers through an extensive survey. Students in the
Kansas City schools took that list one step further and
created guidelines for behavior - the "do's and don't's" for
the workplace.
Top
10 Workplace Skills
Top
10 Workplace Skills with Youth "Do's and Don'ts"
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Working with Students
and Schools
The
Communities and Schools for Career Success Implementation
Manual
The CS2 Implementation
Manual provides information and
resource materials for implementing
CS2. The Guide includes
descriptive information about the CS2 initiative,
the stages of development model, information
and suggestions for supporting and
growing the CS2 initiative,
and a ToolKit which includes a range
of resource materials for effective
planning and program implementation. |
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Roles of
CS2 Entrepreneurs
This framework illustrates the variety of roles CS2 Entrepreneurs
enact as community change agents.
Graphic Framework |
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CS2
Stages of Development
This framework guides the five-stage
process processes, systems, or supports that need to be
in place to provide effective services and supports for
youth.
Graphic Framework
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CS2 Impact
Brochure
The CS2 Impact Brocure provides a quick glance
at the initiative. Highlighed are local CS2 strategies
which have resulted in the following impacts: broadening
the base of support for education, building district-wide
capacity for small learning communities, preparing a skilled
workforce, addressing the student achievement gap, and focusing
on results through ongoing evaluation. |
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