Designing Statewide Strategies & Programs

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National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability For Youth ●● ●● ●● ●● It impedes providing quality transition services for youth with disabilities (US Government Accountability Office, 2012). Lack of cross-sector support has led to revoked legislation. It can lead to confusion surrounding who should be in charge of implementation and who should be providing guidance. It hinders developing a wholeschool-district approach to career development programming. Promising Collaboration-Focused Implementation Practices Engaging in the following collaboration-focused activities can assist states in implementing quality career development programming: ●● ●● Identify cross-sector and crossdepartmental opportunities to coordinate career development implementation. Develop a multi-agency, multi-year plan identifying potential funding ●● ●● ●● sources, common priorities, and specific departmental priorities. Consult with education and workforce development associations and various professional networks to identify evidence-based strategies they are using to promote self-exploration, career exploration, and career planning and management skill-building that could be incorporated into career development resource materials. Oversee and support the continuous improvement of the career development program content and processes. Establish a workgroup among collaborating agencies that focuses specifically on identifying strategies to ensure accessibility of career development programs for specific populations, such as youth with disabilities (including youth with mental health needs), court-involved youth, youth in or aging out of foster care, homeless youth, and youth who are English language learners. 30
Designing Statewide Career Development Strategies & Programs Table 5. Collaboration Resources The Career Pathways Toolkit developed for the U.S. Department of Labor includes a section on building cross-agency partnerships and role clarification and on engaging employers. Through the Competency-Based Pathways State Partnership, Achieve provides targeted policy and implementation support to a group of states committed to advancing competency-based pathways (CBP) to college and career readiness for all students. Achieve’s resources include the State Policy Framework designed to assist states in building a policy structure that contributes to statewide adoption and implementation of competency-based pathways. The College and Career Navigation Initiative is an example of a collaborative effort between the Colorado Community College System, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, and the Colorado Department of Education’s Adult Education Initiatives Office. The initiative targets 1) academically underprepared out-of-school youth and adults, 2) GED completers, 3) high-level ESL students, and 4) workforce center clients. The initiative’s focus is to 1) align workforce, adult basic education, and career and technical education resources; and 2) expand the number of clients successfully entering into college and the completion of career-advancing certificates and degrees. Interagency Collaboration And Transition is a webpage developed by the PACER Center with basic information on the why, when, who, and how of collaboration and transition. The Connecticut College and Career Readiness Toolkit was prepared by the Educational Policy Improvement Center on behalf of the Connecticut P-20 Council for communities to help their youth become college and career ready. The toolkit includes a section on strategies to build partnerships between secondary, postsecondary, and workforce development. Pulling Together 5 provides a section on building collaboration. Although it is not career development specific, it does provide generic information on interagency collaboration, including the definition, benefits and uses of collaboration, challenges, factors for success, and links to worksheets. 31
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