What's New Registration is Now Open!!! Intermediary Network Spring Strategic Planning Institute - April 21-23, 2010 - The Westin Riverwalk in San Antonio, TX Join Intermediary organizations and leaders from around the country for the 2010 Intermediary Network Spring Strategic Planning Institute in San Antonio, TX. Click here to register or copy the following link into your web browser www.regonline.com/SI10. The last day for early bird registration is Friday, March 19, 2010. The Spring Institute brings Intermediary leaders, practitioners, and their partners together to share and discover effective and innovative ways to leverage new investments in youth and the future workforce. The Institute provides you and members from your organization the opportunity to plan for the coming year, while sharing successful strategies and practices that will help grow and sustain your work. Specifically we will share quality strategies for working with youth and employers and provide opportunities for you to strengthen your intermediary practice. For more information about the Institute and hotel reservations, please see the Fast Facts and Agenda at a Glance. If you have any questions, please contact Kellie Noe at knoe@newwaystowork.org or 707-824-4000 x 33. Share | JUST RELEASED!!! A Guide to Career Development Opportunities in California's High Schools The Guide to Career Development Opportunities offered in California’s High Schools provides information about the range of career development opportunities that may exist at any given school site. The guide is aimed specifically at foster youth, caregivers, ILP Coordinators, Social Workers, and others who advocate on behalf of foster youth and their need to be more fully prepared for a positive transition to adulthood. The guidebook offers suggestions about questions to ask and provides useful tools for mapping the career development program offerings in any school or district as well as a Career Goal Worksheet to be used with foster youth in developing a plan for achieving their goals. Career Development Guidebook (PDF 6.16 MB) Share | 2009 Intermediary Network Fall Leadership Forum - San Diego, CA Join Intermediary Network member leaders from around the country for the 2009 Intermediary Network Fall Leadership Forum in San Diego, CA from October 21-23, 2009. Click here to register for the Fall Leadership Forum. The last day to register is Wednesday, September 30, 2009. At this year’s Fall Leadership Forum, we will share effective strategies in the areas of supporting high school quality and re-connecting disconnected youth, along with focused sessions on youth employment and employer engagement. We will also discuss new and emerging initiatives and other national and federal opportunities that can support the work of Intermediaries. Please click here for more details about the Fall Leadership Forum. Checkout the event Agenda at a Glance If you have any questions, please contact Kellie Noe at knoe@newwaystowork.org or 707-824-4000 x 33. Share | The Sonoma County Summer Youth Ecology Corps – Summer 2009 The Sonoma County Summer Youth Ecology Corps is a new effort, supported by a partnership between the Sonoma County Water Agency (SCWA), the Workforce Investment Board (WIB) and Youth Council, and a number of governmental and private non-profit organizations with an educational or environmental mission. SCWA engaged New Ways to Work to support the project planning process and identify quality conservation-related work projects for youth to complete this summer. There are 250 youth and young adults between the ages of 14 and 24 working in the Sonoma County Youth Ecology Corps. For more information please click here or contact Kellie Noe at knoe@newwaystowork.org. See SYEC in the News Channel 7 News (WMV 28 MB) Channel 2 News (WMV 41 MB) Share | Content Conference Call Connecting Foster Youth to Summer Employment Wednesday, April 1, 2009 • 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. A HUGE SUCCESS! Topic: This content call hosted by New Ways to Work and the California Child Welfare Co-Investment Partnership, was designed to inform individuals working with foster youth about the potential summer opportunities that will be available as a result of President Obama’s new stimulus package. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allocates 1.2 billion dollars to support youth workforce programs under the Workforce Investment Act, including summer employment. To watch a recording of this webinar, please click: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2009-04-01.1030.M.93BBB767175585BB84EF5FD8E0F230.vcr Please note that there is a about a 2 min delay in the recording. Use the volume control on the screen. To view the Power Point for this call: YTATApril09Slides (PDF 1.61 MB) To view the Content Call Q and A: YTATConferenceCallQAApril2009 (PDF 60 KB) To view the Summer Jobs Factsheet: SummerJobs2009Update (PDF 105 KB) Foster Youth Summer Jobs Plus Through a grant from the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, New Ways to Work, in partnership with the LA YTAT, will assist 100 foster youth in connecting their 2009 summer jobs experience to their career and educational goals as part of Foster Youth Summer Jobs Plus. Emancipating foster youth who live in the city of Los Angeles will augment their summer employment experience through the development of work-based learning contracts that clearly identify the skills they will develop during their summer employment experience. Youth and their supervisors will also document the skills acquired through the experience with a goal of preparing youth for future career and educational options. New Ways and the LA YTAT partners will design and implement the work-based learning contract, develop training materials, and work with case managers, youth, and worksite supervisors to ensure that the summer experiences are learning rich, and connected to the next step in the workplace or school. New Ways and the LA YTAT will also engage youth in the months following the summer experience to track progress against their career and educational goals. For more information please contact Kellie Noe at knoe@newwaystowork.org. For an overview of this project please view: YTATFYJPOverview.pdf (PDF 82 KB) Share | Foster Youth Career Development Access and Success Through a grant from the San Francisco Foundation, New Ways to Work will work with county teams in the Bay Area including County Office of Education staff, District Career/Technical Education leaders, Social Workers, Independent Living Skills Program staff, and others from Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties to improve foster youth access to the educational offerings referenced above. Anticipated outcomes of this project include increased collaboration between child welfare, education, and workforce development staff and programs, increased awareness among foster youth, caregivers, and CWS staff, of the range of available educational options and programs available to foster youth at the county, district, and school levels, and increased outreach to foster youth by teachers, academy directors, and career technical education professionals. YTAT Access and Success Overview (PDF 65 KB) Career Development Guidebook (PDF .89 MB) Share | YTAT Newsblast The YTAT Newsblast, a timely update on events, legislation, and resources for Youth Transition Action Teams and your partners working with youth in the child welfare system, is ready to view. To view the latest YTAT news please visit: www.newwaystowork.org/initiatives/ytat/newsblasts/newsblast2_09.pdf (PDF 86K) INet Newsblast The March issue of the INet News is now available and contains timely information about upcoming events, legislation updates, and current reports. A New Issue Coming Soon! To request that you receive future issues via email, contact Kellie Noe at knoe@newwaystowork.org Youth Policy Action Center More than 30 of the country’s leading national advocacy organizations have joined forces for improving policies and programs for children and youth. The Youth Policy Action Center helps youth and concerned adults contact elected officials about important programs and initiatives. The Youth Policy Action Center gives young people a platform on which to stand and be counted in national debate and dialogue. It gives national advocates a way to come together and act as one. And it gives all citizens — concerned parents, proud grandparents, dedicated teachers — political power which used to be the exclusive providence of entrenched special interest lobbyists. .