Southwest CO Workforce Board Youth Council

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Southwest CO Workforce Board Youth Council

• Paulette Church
• Laura Webb
• March 2001

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Mission Statement

• We, the Southwest Colorado Workforce Board Youth
  Council, are a coalition to provide opportunities
  that empower our youth for personal, academic,
  and employment success.

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Starting Assumptions

• Resource to Workforce Board on youth issues
• Creating programs with youth, not just for youth
• Realization of importance of youth to economic
  development of the region
• All five counties represented
• Broad base of participation

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Timeline and Activities

• Identified potential participants
• Developed mission statement
• Developed Youth Plan to be included in Workforce
  Board Regional Plan
• Sought training at state and regional level
  regarding WIA

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Timeline and Activities contd.

• Co-Chairs conducted training for Council members
• Began developing youth resource grid
• as part of Youth Plan
• Planning meeting to develop priorities and task
  groups to start implementation
• -Transportation -Funding/Grants
• -After School -Youth Programs

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Timeline and Activities contd.

• Retreat with Maxine Bradley (Regional Director
  for Dept. of Labor) to update training and share
  task group progress
• Discussion of 501(c)(3) status for funding
• Formalized Youth Council membership
• Narrowed focus to short term goals
• -Wrote Youth Council Grant
• Identified Youth Webpage Project Coordinator and
  timeline for project

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Works in Progress

• Webpage design project
• Recruiting mentors who recruit students
• Job Fairs with local schools
• Governors Summer Youth Job Hunt
• Looking for links to other youth focused projects
  (e.g., Summer Technology Camp in LaPlata County
  Service Learning projects U.S. Forest Service
  Youth Regional grant, Job Corp Partnership,
  Southwest Youth Corp)

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Contact Information

• Paulette Church
• Executive Director
• Adult Education Center
• 301 E. 12th St.
• Durango, CO 81301
• Phone [phone]
• aecdgo_at_frontier.net

• Laura Webb, Ph.D.
• Director of Durango Campus
• Pueblo Com. College
• 701 Camino del Rio
• Durango, CO 81301
• Phone [phone]
• Laura.webb_at_pcc.cccoes.edu