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National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability For Youth as a key strategy to assist youth in reaching those goals. Communication materials can also be useful in leveraging additional resources to support career development efforts. For example, they can help administrators, caseworkers, and staff from community-based organizations and government agencies that provide transition and/or college readiness services, such as the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, become aware of how to more fully integrate career development opportunities into the services they offer. ●● the career development plan and the transition-focused IEP. The lack of access to materials to communicate the value of career development to students, families, and educators sometimes made getting buy-in more difficult. Biggest concerns have to do with alignment of the [ILP] and the requirements of the IEP. Teachers are still learning about the [ILP] and trying to understand how all the pieces fit together. Challenges Experienced Due to Lack of Communication and Marketing Materials There’s a little anxiety about the lack of information. NCWD/Youth’s five-year research study on ILPs revealed the following challenges associated with a lack of communication and marketing materials: ●● The two most consistent challenges reported by district and school-level officials struggling to implement career development programming using ILPs involved confusion around compliance with special education transition regulations: 1) integrating required career development activities and special education transition services and 2) aligning Promising Communication and Marketing Implementation Practices Engaging in the following communication and marketing-related activities can assist states in implementing quality career development programming: ●● ●● ●● Create a statewide career development implementation guide to promote understanding and buyin from a wide variety of relevant stakeholders. Develop communication and marketing materials to provide local education agencies and other organizations tools to inform students, teachers, business leaders, and community-based organizations about the value and nature of career development programs. Develop communication and 36
Designing Statewide Career Development Strategies & Programs ●● ●● ●● ●● marketing materials that offer a clear rationale for career development program and activity implementation to facilitate designing district-level policies that clearly outline how career development implementation supports and connects the various schoollevel innovation and improvement efforts. Such materials should 1) explain the need for developing college and career ready graduates, 2) explain the role of career readiness in driving college readiness, 3) clearly articulate the purpose and value of career development programming, and 4) contain messages tailored to the specific audience for the material. Provide clear, user friendly, and unambiguous messages on career development programs and activities and the relationship between individualized planning tools such as ILPs. Messaging should 1) describe how ILP career development strategies inform the IEP transition process and 2) demonstrate how student results from career development programs and activities documented within ILP ePortfolios can be transferred to the IEP transition plan. Develop family-friendly and culturally-relevant career development program and activity information for use by local schools, which incorporate parent advocacy group input. Create a logic model that shows how grade-specific career development programs and activities result in students becoming career ready and perceiving their academic courses and the pursuit of postsecondary training and education to be more relevant. Establish an online repository of classroom activities that use web-based career information systems and generate documentation of self-exploration, career exploration, and career planning and management skills that can be stored in the ePortfolio. Table 6. Guidance & Communication Resources Implementation Guides The Rhode Island Framework for Comprehensive K-12 School Counseling Programs is an implementation guide for school counselors developed by the Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in collaboration with the Rhode Island School Counselor Association, Providence College, and the Rhode Island School-to-Career Program. 37
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