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About Youth Pathways —WIA Youth Program
Since 2000, Commonwealth Corporation's Youth Pathways has coordinated the implementation of Workforce Investment Act (WIA) youth services on behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Working with the state’s sixteen workforce investment boards and their subsidiary youth councils, Youth Pathways’ WIA Youth team provides local areas with a national and statewide perspective on practical ways to integrate disparate programs into a comprehensive system, yielding a high return on program investment.
Services provided through this initiative include:
- Publications – Youth Pathways has a published a variety of products designed to assist local areas in the development of comprehensive services to reconnect displaced local youth to educational and employment options. (See Resources page.)
- Training - Youth Pathways offers a variety of training and webinars designed to assist youth providers in their implementation of strategies to enhance local youth systems.
- Technical Assistance - Youth Pathways provides technical and policy support to locally driven workforce systems in order to build stronger service networks for youth. This technical assistance is available upon request in the following forms:
- Orientation for Youth Councils – Customized one-on-one workshops to provide youth councils and local workforce investment boards with an overview of WIA, youth service requirements, and coordination opportunities.
- Strategic Planning and System Building – Workshops to guide youth councils through the process of resource mapping, strategic planning, coordinating youth programs, and assuring program and system accountability.
- State-level Resource Coordination – Youth Pathways works with state agency partners in education, higher education, health and human services, juvenile justice and others to identify opportunities for coordinating youth policy and resources through Pathways to Success by 21 (P21). The goal of P21 is to leverage more resources that can be used to deliver coordinated services at the local level. (See P21 website.)
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