1. YouthWorks Year-Round 2017-18 RFP Webinar
June 23, 2017

2. Agenda Purpose and Overview of Year-Round Eligible Participants
Applicants and Funding Levels
Program Design and Requirements
Submission Dates
Questions and Answers

3. Housekeeping Please put your phones on mute by pressing *1
Conference call number (for audio portion)
RFP documents are located at

4. Welcome and Introductions
Anne Berrigan: Program Director Jennifer Applebaum: Associate Program Director

5. Webinar Objectives
Shared understand of purpose of YW initiative and related program elements
Shared understanding of program design and proposal requirements
Opportunity to ask questions

6. Purpose and Overview
Goal: To provide youth participants with short-term occupational skill building that can enhance job seeking prospects and be replicated or scaled up in future programming. Target Population: Applicants can target the program to younger teens (15-17) and/or non-minors (18 -21).
Target pop: Applicants should consider a youth subset that makes sense for the industry area and/or the broad skill set needed to explore the topic and make connections to an academic interest (e.g., language arts; numeracy; STEM).

7. Eligible Youth Participants
Income eligibility for Year-Round 2017/18: Young people eligible to participate in YouthWorks if family income does not exceed annual equivalent of 200% of the federal poverty guidelines. (~$49K for Family of 4) Age eligibility: (in school or out of school)

8. YouthWorks Cities Local Area Cities Berkshire Pittsfield Boston
Bristol
Fall River, Taunton
Brockton
Cape & Islands
Barnstable
Central Mass
Worcester
Greater Lowell
Lowell
Greater New Bedford
New Bedford
Franklin Hampshire
Northampton
Hampden County
Chicopee, Springfield, Holyoke, Westfield
Merrimack Valley
Lawrence, Haverhill
Metro North
Cambridge, Chelsea, Malden, Revere, Everett, Somerville
Metro South/West
Framingham
North Central
Fitchburg, Leominster
North Shore
Lynn, Salem, Peabody
South Shore
Quincy, Plymouth, Randolph

9. Eligible Applicants & Funding Levels
Eligible Applicants: Workforce development boards; Career Centers; Community-based Organizations; and High Schools/Schools with Chapter 74 approved programs Funding Availability: Commonwealth Corporation anticipates awarding up to five grants (up to $75,000 each) through competitive process.

10. Program Design
1) Occupational training models designed for small cohorts of youth participants. Use of advisory group and competency-based assessment to promote learning goals. 2) Expanded work-readiness/career exploration Minimum of 20 hours using the Signal Success curriculum (

11. Program Design Technical skill focus Access to instructional expertise
Access to related equipment and/or resources
Suggestions for a training focus include: IT/coding; health careers; hospitality and/or culinary arts; media arts; bike repair; barista/coffee house; horticulture; EMT/First Aid, or child care

12. Program Requirements
Cohort Size: At least 20 participants (ages 15-21). Cohort Focus: At least 10 youth participants must receive occupational training The remaining number of participants can be placed in short-term subsidized jobs.
Focus
Occupational Training (10)
Subsidized jobs (10)
# of training/work hours 80
100
Signal Success hrs. 20
Total
120

13. Program Requirements
Planning Process: Program design of occupational training must be vetted by advisory group that includes at least one employer partner in related industry area Assessment: Must outline learning goals and performance measures (i.e., portfolios, badging, pre-post assessment instrument etc.)

14. Data Collection and Reporting
Activities Completed
Assessment results (Competency-based)
Accomplishments
Challenges/Discoveries
Recommendations/Conclusions
Program database (demographic information and SSNs)

15. Submission Process RFP Released June 1, 2017 Webinar June 23, 2017
Proposals Due
September 29, 2017
Notification
October 6, 2017
Contract Start
October 15, 2017
Kick Off Meeting
October 25, 2017
Contract End
May 31, 2018

16. RFP Submission What to submit? Narrative Budget Cover Sheet
Where to submit?
Use the CommCorp Grantee portal to find contract attachments

17. Questions & Answers