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Welcome to the Youth Standing Committee for Workforce Services

Welcome to the Youth Standing Committee for Workforce Services. Mission. The Youth Standing Committee’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 Youth Standing Committee for Workforce Services

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  1. Welcome to the Youth Standing Committee for Workforce Services

  2. Mission The Youth Standing Committee’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 WIOA Strategic Plan. • Provide statewide oversight of service delivery. • Complete assignments from the Youth Standing Committee Chair.

  4. Purpose (continued) • Connect with the Youth Standing Committee and Service Area Youth Advisory Committee: • Decisions about youth services are made locally, forwarded to the Youth Standing Committee 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 WIOA youth. • Research issues and help the council come to reasonable recommendations based on facts.

  6. Responsibilities (continued) Members of the Standing Youth Committee 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 WIOA 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 75% percent of expenditures must be spent on out of school youth. • Eligible out of school youth are school dropouts or youth who have received a high school diploma or equivalent and are basic skills deficient or and English Language Learner. Youth enrolled in Alternative Education type settings are also out of school youth.  

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

  11. Eligibility • Age 14 to 24 • Meet Low-income status • One or more barriers for out of school youth, two or more barriers for in-school youth, 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. WIOA-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 WIOA 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 • WIOA performance outcomes are negotiated annually with the U.S. Department of Labor. • Performance outcomes are re-determined each year for Utah based on DOL’s recommendations

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