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COYN Action Guide: Expanding Workforce & Career Development Pathways For Opportunity Youth

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A roadmap to expand access to and improve the quality of workforce and career development services provided for 16- to 24-year-old opportunity youth – defined as youth who are disconnected from both school and work as well as those who have experienced foster care, the justice system or homelessness.

The frameworks themselves are intentionally ambitious and recognize the need to develop partnerships overtime with systems adjacent to the workforce and education systems to support enhanced recruitment and engagement of opportunity youth and to provide the wide range of comprehensive support needed to effectively serve the population. Systems change is thoughtful, slow, intentional and incremental. Holding up a bold community vision, defining broad functions for partners and key elements for the system itself can help keep all partners engaged and moving forward toward realizing that vision.

COYN Action Guide: Expanding Workforce & Career Development Pathways For Opportunity Youth

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