Awareness Workgroup
Awareness, Community Services & Supports Workgroup
Chairperson Name
Chris Melloway
Chairperson Contact
Washoe County Juvenile Services
650 Ferrari – McLeod Reno, Nevada
Direct Phone: 775-325-7914
E-Mail: cmelloway@washoecounty.us
Purpose of Workgroup
To educate the community and build the "Ready for Life" collaboration.
To educate the community and build the "Ready for Life" collaboration.
Key Goals and Objectives
· Expand community-based programs, services and resources for at risk youth.
· Outreach into local communities to identify youth that have dropped out and reengage them.
· Create and launch Washoe County RFL public education and awareness campaign.
· Outreach into local communities to identify youth that have dropped out and reengage them.
· Create and launch Washoe County RFL public education and awareness campaign.
How You Can Help
· Donate marketing services / design a public awareness campaign for Washoe County RFL.
· Individually, or as a business, establish a mentor relationship.
· Donate legislative lobbying resources and services.
· Sponsor a sport or social activity specifically targeting at risk youth
· Individually, or as a business, establish a mentor relationship.
· Donate legislative lobbying resources and services.
· Sponsor a sport or social activity specifically targeting at risk youth
Employment Workgroup
Chairperson Name
Helyse Turner, Sierra Nevada Job Corps
Chairperson Contact
Helyse Turner
Direct Phone: (775)789-0803
E-Mail: turner.helyse@jobcorps.org
Purpose of Workgroup
Expand business community partnerships to provide employment training, job experience, fiscal management and entrepreneurial training. A benefit to employers as we work together to address the challenge of creating a skilled and trained workforce for the future.
Key Goals and Objectives
· Expand business community partnerships.
· Develop marketing, orientation, and implementation tools to assist business in offering internships and training opportunities.
· Employ at least 15 Foster Youth in growth opportunity positions in 2009.
How You Can Help
· Create an internship position within your organization specifically for adolescents and young adults - initially representing one or more of the four at-risk groups
· Sponsor a paid internship within another company
· Offer job shadowing and/or coaching/mentoring to youth exploring career options
· Donate bus passes
· Expand business community partnerships.
· Develop marketing, orientation, and implementation tools to assist business in offering internships and training opportunities.
· Employ at least 15 Foster Youth in growth opportunity positions in 2009.
How You Can Help
· Create an internship position within your organization specifically for adolescents and young adults - initially representing one or more of the four at-risk groups
· Sponsor a paid internship within another company
· Offer job shadowing and/or coaching/mentoring to youth exploring career options
· Donate bus passes
Policy & Education Workgroup
Chairperson Name
Eric Ohlson, Join Together Northern Nevada
Chairperson Contact
Business Phone: 775-324-7557
E-Mail: eric@jtnn.org
Purpose of Workgroup
Focus on increasing occurrences of flexible schedules and hours(for education and training), identifying needed changes in organizational, county or state policies or laws to improve educational and employment outcomes for youth; expanding and coordinating data systems & information sharing to better serve youth. Provide options and awareness options for students who need alternatives. Develop a community belief system where Education is valued.
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Key Goals and Objectives
· Support the Statewide Action Plan.
· Identify and develop strategies to coordinate local sharing of information between systems that serve youth.
· Identify and support policy modifications that address the unique employment and education needs of the Ready for Life populations.
· Expand nontraditional, alternative educational settings.
· Increase number of youth graduating and continuing on an educational path.
· Increase employability skills.
How You Can Help
· Serve on the Workgroup.
· Conduct or fund case studies of youth who move between WCSD, WCDSS, WCDJS, WC Public Health and non-profit systems to determine their experiences, services, needed and received, and ultimate outcomes.
· Take a lead in identifying and leveraging "non-traditional" funding sources at the state and federal levels, specifically for the range of issues and needs faced by these four population groups. · Participate in establishing a Full Service Community School/One Stop center, with co-location of education, social and support services in one physical location.
· Provide financial support to expand resources and capacity of WCSD Cyesis program or other programs that allow pregnant or parenting teens to continue their education while raising a child.
· Establish or contribute to a scholarship fund for pregnant or parenting teen mothers/parents to go to TMCC and/or UNR.
· Provide incentives and financial support for students attending alternative educational settings that are flexible such as Rainshadow, ACE Charter School, Washoe High School, Washoe Adult Program, and I Can Do Anything Charter School.
· Help identify, encourage, reengage and re-enroll youth and adolescents who have already dropped out.
· Support the Statewide Action Plan.
· Identify and develop strategies to coordinate local sharing of information between systems that serve youth.
· Identify and support policy modifications that address the unique employment and education needs of the Ready for Life populations.
· Expand nontraditional, alternative educational settings.
· Increase number of youth graduating and continuing on an educational path.
· Increase employability skills.
How You Can Help
· Serve on the Workgroup.
· Conduct or fund case studies of youth who move between WCSD, WCDSS, WCDJS, WC Public Health and non-profit systems to determine their experiences, services, needed and received, and ultimate outcomes.
· Take a lead in identifying and leveraging "non-traditional" funding sources at the state and federal levels, specifically for the range of issues and needs faced by these four population groups. · Participate in establishing a Full Service Community School/One Stop center, with co-location of education, social and support services in one physical location.
· Provide financial support to expand resources and capacity of WCSD Cyesis program or other programs that allow pregnant or parenting teens to continue their education while raising a child.
· Establish or contribute to a scholarship fund for pregnant or parenting teen mothers/parents to go to TMCC and/or UNR.
· Provide incentives and financial support for students attending alternative educational settings that are flexible such as Rainshadow, ACE Charter School, Washoe High School, Washoe Adult Program, and I Can Do Anything Charter School.
· Help identify, encourage, reengage and re-enroll youth and adolescents who have already dropped out.
