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Voices of Experience: Video on Youth Service Strategies
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This video features four practitioners who discuss strategies for working with out of school youth to help build a future talent supply.
The participants discuss their successful experiences in working with this population including focus group sessions with youth; establishing creditability; working with an array of community partners; and utilizing a horizontal, rather than tiered vertical training model that combines work-based learning with GED instruction or classroom training.
Participants include Karen Norington-Reaves, Chief Executive, Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership; Rick Beasley, Executive Director, Career Source, South Florida; Clyde McQueen, Full Employment Council, Kansas City, Missouri and Margaret Prate, Executive Director, NW Tennessee Workforce Board.
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Internships
Summer Jobs
Volunteer Opportunities
Work Study
Career Guidance
Career Information - General
Counseling - General
Career Readiness
Employability Skills
Job Readiness Services - General
Leadership Development
Soft Skills Training
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- Resource Publication Date: 2016
- Posted by: Angela Dayton
- Posted in: ION - Innovation and Opportunity Network