1. A Wyoming BLN Model of Revenue Generation for your Consideration Presented by: Lynn Trew Kirkbride WBLN VP Business Development

2.  A New Revenue Stream for your BLN?

3. This is our time to dig in and get creative!

4. “GROW THE TALENT”

5.  An innovative program assisting youth with disabilities through your local school district  Youth ages 14 -21 transitioning from High school to the World of Work  Utilizing employer mentors from your BLN to prepare students for employment “growing the talent”

6.  BLN’s need new sources of revenue  Engages your BLN businesses in meaningful activities  Can pump new life into your BLN  A non-threatening way to involve new businesses that are skeptical

7.  Employers have access to potential job candidates  Employer Mentors: Businesses like investing in youth! BIG Return on Investment! New value of the BLN  VR partners love it: an overlooked population  Best disability awareness exercise ever!

8.  All contracts are individually negotiated with each school since funds are locally controlled  Modest contracts of $10,000- $28,000 add up  Each contract is customized to the transition needs of that school

9.  Services are NOT negotiated by the numbers of students served (of which the BLN has no control)  What distinguishes our services from providers is our EMPLOYER NETWORK

10.  Transition services are limited and inconsistent from district to district- MA can fill in the gap  MA can be a “coordinated set of activities” for districts to write into their IEP’s  Great concern among districts over federal IDEA indictors 13 and 14- MA helps with these post secondary outcomes  The school picks what they need from a menu of services- augments their services

11.  National data states that the number #1 predictor of vocational success is a work experience prior to graduation from high school  Your staff is paid and supervised by you not the school  Gets students hooked into adult VR services prior to graduation  VR likes it because students often have chosen an industry sector to focus their career

12.  Access to an existing network of employers (BLN)  BLN Employer mentors can offer employability skills from the real world of business  Helps students build an employer network- which leads to jobs!

13.  World of Work Class Examples : Dress for Success Job Retention Strategies Personalities and Careers Mock Interviews Careers in the 21 st Century Personal Finances Empowerment and Disclosure Networking

14.  Job Site Tours  Career Resource EXPO participation  Summer employment placement  Career Planning

15.  One on One Mentoring  Mentoring Day Luncheon/Awards Events  Graduation Day/Portfolios  Leadership Development: Student Advisory Council  “Why change only one life when you can change two?”

19.  Increased pressure on districts to have students meet academic criteria before outside involvement  Longer testing of PAWS (Jan. and March) so less time for involvement  Concern over students leaving school grounds (transportation)  Getting districts to take a chance on something new in a time of shortfall  Letting you into their system (ivory tower syndrome)

20. The Wyoming Business Leadership Network yourbln.com Lynn Trew Kirkbride lynnkirkbride@gmail.com (307) 631-0894 Wanda Rogers wrogers@vcn.com (307)783-6302

21. Thanks for Coming!!!!