Final World Cafe

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Final World Cafe Making the Business Connection
to Youth August 13, 2009
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• Welcome to Y2E
• Linking Youth to Employers
• Working with you to build an employment framework
  that will connect priority youth to local
  employers and their jobs.

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• Who are Priority Youth?
• 15-30 years old
• Face challenges to employment
• Exciting, energetic and smart youth bring
  creativity to work!

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• The Recommended Model

Link Team
Operational Body
One-Stop Shop
Youth Intake Development
Opportunity Bank
Ongoing Support
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Link Team Leadership team

• Interagency / multi stakeholders
• Collaborating to address challenges, act on
  opportunities
• Referral team to effectively review and act on
  issues or information
• Drive and champion the framework,

Areas of responsibility engagement
partnerships sustainability collaboration ref
errals social marketing accountability celebra
ting success
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Operational Body Administration, Operations
Reporting

• Provides the administrative staff to maintain the
  framework elements
• Performs operational activities
• Develops maintains operational guide, policies
  and procedures
• Monitors the framework successes reports on
  measurables
• Dedicated business liaison ambassadors

• Areas of Responsibility
• Administrative and technical support Marketing
  communications
• Policies and procedures Operational guide
• Maintain database Maintain opportunity bank
• Manage one-stop shop Manager other activities
  events

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One-Stop Online Shop Information resource

• Provides access to information or resources in
  single location for all stakeholder groups
• Integrates existing sites and links
• Personalized/automated matching and notification
  by interest, availability, eligibility criteria
  etc.
• Portal for on-line registration referral
  (employers and youth)
• Portal to Opportunity Bank

• Components
• local services agencies available
  programs research
• career exploration available funding activities
  events
• Profile development learning templates
  resources

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Youth Intake Development

• Service provider and youth development agencies
  continue existing onsite intake and development
  processes
• On-line youth intake, registration and referral
  expands service provider outreach visibility
• Voluntary inter-agency collaboration to increase
  youth program capacity

• Components
• standardized on-line intake referral for on-site
  interview
• action plan development needs assessment
• inter-agency referral for employability training
  voluntary by agency or provider
• certification recognizing development mentorship

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Opportunity Bank Employer Youth Connections

• Registered employer/business job profiles
• Registered youth skills and interest profiles
• Automated matching between interests and
  opportunities with notification to service
  provider to confirm match and establish
  interviews
• Marketing job videos raising business/career
  profiles among youth

Components events postings searchable jobs
database participation menu searchable employer
database youth development certificate youth
friendly designation for business
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Ongoing Support Ensuring successes

• Ongoing support provided through a working
  partnership with the Business Liaison and Service
  Providers
• Ensuring employers and youth match is successful
  and maintained
• Proactive follow up to monitor placement, address
  potential issues and identify further
  opportunities
• Encourage youth leadership to support newcomers
  to the program
• Ongoing relationship building with assigned job
  developer

• Components
• employer support package youth employment
  retention workshops
• continuing training options placement follow up
  and evaluation 2 yrs
• youth leadership events connection to
  Operational Body

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Operational Body - Where Does it
Belong? Accountability, Operations Reporting

• Business Partnership
• Community Partnership
• Government Department

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Funding Sustainability

• Business investment
• Value added services
• Government sponsorship

Advertising promotion Champions in
industry Youth advocacy Reporting success
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The Y2E Framework Benefits
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• Please be ready to tell us..
• Which aspects of this model do you value or
  seeing benefiting you?
• What improvements could be made to make this work
  even better?
• How can we implement the model best?
• Are you motivated and ready to test the
  framework?
• Networking site www.youth2employers.ning.com
• For more information contact Krista Hall
  490-7105, khall_at_greaterhalifax.com

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