The Federal Shared Youth Vision Partnership

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The Federal Shared Youth Vision Partnership

• http//www.doleta.gov/ryf/

A Federal Partnership between the United States
Departments of Education, Health and Human
Services, Housing and Urban Development, Justice,
Labor, Transportation, the United States Social
Security Administration, and the Corporation for
National Community Service.
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Creating a Collaborative Approach to Prepare
Youth for Success in a Global, Demand-Driven
Economy

• In response to the 2003 White House Task Force
  Report for Disadvantaged Youth, a Federal
  Interagency Work Group was created to
• enhance communication, coordination, and
  collaboration among Federal agencies, and
• ensure that well-designed and coordinated
  programs provide the neediest youth opportunities
  to successfully transition to adult roles and
  responsibilities.

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Objectives

• Develop and coordinate policy, within existing
  policy structures, to address the needs of our
  neediest youth
• Maximize interagency collaborations to utilize
  the significant expertise within specific Federal
  agencies
• Develop innovative approaches that efficiently
  and effectively respond to serving youth
• Enhance the quality of service delivery and
  improve efficiencies
• Improve the outcomes for the youth we serve

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Federal Youth Vision Partners

• US Department of Education
• US Department of Health Human Services
• US Department of Housing Urban Development
• US Department of Justice
• US Department of Labor
• US Department of Transportation
• Social Security Administration
• Corporation for National Community Service

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COLLABORATION
IS THE KEY! Working together the Federal
Partners have accomplished the following
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Prioritized investments for

• Youth in foster care or aging out of foster care
• Children of incarcerated parents
• Court involved youth or those at-risk of
  involvement
• Migrant youth
• Youth with disabilities
• Native American youth
• Homeless and runaway youth
• Out of school youth
• High school drop-outs

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Convened Regional Youth Forums in 2004 to

• Communicate the shared vision and commitment to
  collaboration
• Facilitate the creation of state/tribal teams
  cross-agency systems to better serve the neediest
  youth through leveraging resources and policy
  alignment
• Develop strategies for Federal support of the
  interagency teams
• 51 states and territories attended the forums
  and began work on their Shared Youth Vision

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Identified State Challenges and Federal
Opportunities

• The need for information on resources and
  services across programs/agencies
• Engagement of state/tribal leadership
• Models for collaboration
• Common message/common language
• Continued support of teams

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Conducted Regional Forum Follow-up activities in
2005 including

• Letters to the Governors encouraging support of
  the new Shared Youth Vision
• An email system youthfed.team_at_dol.gov to
  effectively disseminate information and
  correspond with teams
• The creation of the Crosswalk of Key Federal
  Program Definitions and Program Policies
  designed to address policy issues that present
  obstacles to cross-agency collaboration

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Forum Follow-up, Cont.

• The development of a Federal Funding Matrix to
  provide states information on funding from each
  of the Federal agencies in their individual
  states.
• The creation of a Federal/State Bench-Marking
  Tool to provide teams with broad principles to
  assist them in gauging the effectiveness of their
  collaborative efforts.
• A new website (http//www.doleta.gov/ryf/)
• for Federal and state/tribal team partners to
  obtain information and receive updates on current
  efforts.

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In 2006, the Federal Partnership

• Hosted a second set of youth forums in September
• Sixteen teams were chosen to attend these
  Advanced Level Technical Assistance Youth Vision
  Forums.
• Teams received assistance in aligning resources,
  staffing, barriers and challenges, resource
  mapping, and identifying specific interagency
  goals and objectives as a result of the work
  completed during these forums.

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In response to requests for additional resources

• A Solutions Desk was created to provide a
  technical assistance (TA) resource that will
• Provide a gateway to each of the federal
  partners resource centers, clearinghouses, and
  training and technical assistance providers, and
• Assist State Teams with their Shared Youth Vision
  activities.

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The Federal Partnership is Moving Forward!
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Moving Forward in 2007

• Teams who attended the Forums will have an
  opportunity to apply for funding and to become a
  Pilot Team.
• Pilot Teams will receive specialized technical
  and financial assistance designed to advance
  their individualized strategic plan.
• This assistance will encourage their teams to
  move to the next level of collaboration in
  serving its neediest youth and become a model for
  the rest of the country.

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Moving Forward

• The Partnership will also work with teams to
  develop strategies that assist them in attracting
  new partners and leveraging resources by
  expanding their collaboration through the
  engagement of business and industry as well as
  foundations.

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Resources

• White House Task Force for Disadvantaged Youth
  Final Report, October 2003
• http//www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/fysb/content/docs
  /white_house_taskfforce.pdf
• New Strategic Vision for the Delivery of Youth
  Services Under the Workforce Investment Act.
  (Training Guidance Letter No 3-04,
• http//wdr.doleta.gov/directives/attach/TEGL3-04.
  pdf
• TEGL 28-05 Expanding ETAs Vision for the
  Delivery of Youth Services Under WIA to Include
  Indian and Native American Youth and Youth with
  Disabilities.
• http//wdr.doleta.gov/directives/corr_doc.cfm?DOC
  N2224