Job Corps Oversight Hearing
Job Corps Oversight Hearing

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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Work Maturity Programming for Youth Under JTPA.
Work Maturity Programming for Youth Under JTPA.

Author: Rick Spill

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13:

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Competency-based programming for Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) participants is a powerful tool that can be used by Private Industry Councils (PICs) to train youth in, among other things, the work maturity skills vital to finding and keeping employment. Work maturity skills are involved in the following behaviors: being on time for work, working industriously while on the job, getting along with others, dressing appropriately, following directions, completing the tasks assigned, and assuming responsibility. About 450 Service Delivery Areas across the United States have developed competency-based programs to teach work maturity or other competencies. Each local system is made up of the following key components: (1) PIC-recognized competency statements; (2) instruments to assess participant need; (3) employability plans; (4) classroom and on-site training; (5) evaluations of participant achievement; (6) certificates of achievement; and (7) documentation of participant activities. Following the narrative overview of the issues involved in developing such programs, the major portion of this report for job training professionals consists of seven descriptions of model programs. The descriptions take the form of National Alliance of Business Bulletins. The following sections follow the bulletins: a selected bibliography, a youth employment competency resource list, and a transcript of U.S. Department of Labor regulations that affect work maturity competencies. (CML)

Youth Employment Programs in Ghana
Youth Employment Programs in Ghana

Author: Christabel Dadzie

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2020-09-04

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 1464815798

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Unemployment and underemployment are global development challenges. The situation in Ghana is no different. In 2016, it was projected that, given the country’s growing youth population, 300,000 new jobs would need to be created each year to absorb the increasing numbers of unemployed young people. Yet the employment structure of the Ghanaian economy has not changed much from several decades ago. Most jobs are low skill, requiring limited cognitive or technology know-how, reflected in low earnings and work of lower quality. An additional challenge for Ghana is the need to create access to an adequate number of high-quality, productive jobs. This report seeks to increase knowledge about Ghana’s job landscape and youth employment programs to assist policy makers and key stakeholders in identifying ways to improve the effectiveness of these programs and strengthen coordination among major stakeholders. Focused, strategic, short- to medium-term and long-term responses are required to address current unemployment and underemployment challenges. Effective coordination and synergies among youth employment programs are needed to avoid duplication of effort while the country’s economic structure transforms. Effective private sector participation in skills development and employment programs is recommended. The report posits interventions in five priority areas that are not new but could potentially make an impact through scaling up: (1) agriculture and agribusiness, (2) apprenticeship (skills training), (3) entrepreneurship, (4) high-yielding areas (renewable energy†“solar, construction, tourism, sports, and green jobs), and (5) preemployment support services. Finally, with the fast-changing nature of work due to technology and artificial intelligence, Ghana needs to develop an education and training system that is versatile and helps young people to adapt and thrive in the twenty-first century world of work.

Narrative Approaches to Youth Work
Narrative Approaches to Youth Work

Author: Julie Tilsen

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9781138091436

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This is the book that youth workers who want to put into practice their desire to "meet youth where they're at" have been waiting for. Narrative Approaches to Youth Work provides hope-filled and fresh conversational practices anchored in a critical intersectional analysis of power and a relational ethic of care. These practices help youth workers answer the all-too-common question, what do I do when I do youth work? The concepts and skills presented in this book position youth workers to do youth work in ways that honor youth agency and resistance to oppression, invite a multiplicity of possibilities, and situate youth and youth workers alike within broader social contexts that influence their lives and their relationship together. Drawing on the author's 30-plus years of working alongside young people and training youth workers in contexts ranging from recreation centers to homeless shelters, this book provides a rich and deliberate mix of theoretical grounding, practical application, real-life vignettes, and questions for in-depth self-reflection. Throughout Narrative Approaches to Youth Work, readers hear from a wise and thoughtful squad of youth workers talking about how they strive to do socially just, accountable, critical youth work.