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What Happens in Vegas DOESN’T Stay in Vegas: Best Bridge Building Tips and Ideas (Part I)

What Happens in Vegas DOESN’T Stay in Vegas: Best Bridge Building Tips and Ideas (Part I). April 17, 2009 Dr. Jennifer Wild. Today we will…. Examine why Health and Wellness staff should care about the New Vision Review Job Corps’ New Vision, mission and national goals

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What Happens in Vegas DOESN’T Stay in Vegas: Best Bridge Building Tips and Ideas (Part I)

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  1. What Happens in Vegas DOESN’T Stay in Vegas:Best Bridge Building Tips and Ideas (Part I) April 17, 2009 Dr. Jennifer Wild

  2. Today we will… Examine why Health and Wellness staff should care about the New Vision Review Job Corps’ New Vision, mission and national goals View the New Vision DVD Discuss what Health and Wellness can do to support the New Vision Explore progress to date

  3. A new world for Job Corps

  4. Why should we know about the New Vision? • To be in sync with JC’s goals • To be included as part of the Job Corps team to meet the New Vision goals • To support the new direction (Mental Health, TEAP, Disability, etc.)

  5. How can staff feel a part of the New Vision? • We can ensure students are healthy and thus employable • We can help students with special barriers so they can achieve the goals of the New Vision • We can ensure students with special needs are given equal consideration within the New Vision • We can teach students and staff the appropriate use of health and wellness services

  6. You may want to know… • How and why the New Vision was developed • Does the New Vision change the original mission of Job Corps and the population it serves? • How the New Vision impacts admission into Job Corps especially for student who may have challenges?

  7. What is the Vision? Job Corps serves the Nation’s at-promise, disenfranchised youth as an integrated, agile, demand-driven workforce and education training system. Job Corps is an employment bridge to high-growth, high demand industries that offers career paths and life-long learning skills for its graduates responding to 21st century workforce challenges.

  8. What is the Vision? The vision is an “ideal” state We are transforming where we are to where we want to be The transformation will occur in “phases” incrementally and over time The vision is supported by national goals Achieving these goals will ensure that the vision becomes a reality

  9. Where We Have Been and Where Are We Going Policy

  10. Where are we now? • Standards and Certifications • Clustering • Technology • Regional Labs • Professional Development • Performance Measures • Policy

  11. Standards & Certifications • Establishing a Standards-Based Education and Training System to provide: • Rigorous training that meets industry standards and employer expectations • Training that ensures Job Corps students can succeed in the 21st Century economy

  12. Core elements • Targeted training in 11 of the 14 high-growth industries identified by DOL

  13. Core elements (cont.) • Revising existing CTT programs • Obtaining program certification from industry certification bodies • Developing new CTT programs for emerging industries and occupations • Identifying and developing the academic standards students must master to complete CTT programs and pass certification exams • Developing standards-based curricula

  14. Core elements (cont.) • English/Language Arts • Reading • Writing • Listening • Speaking • Mathematics • Science • Critical Thinking Partnered with McREL for the development of academic standards and instructional supports

  15. Academic standards schedule

  16. Training Pathways Clinical Medical Assistant Certified Phlebotomy Technician Certified EKG Technician Certified Clinical Medical Assistant Diagnostic Services Medical Transcriptionist Certified Medical Transcriptionist Medical Administration (Prerequisite to continued training) Certified Medical Administrative Assistant Health Informatics Health Unit Coordinator Certified Health Unit Coordinator Health Care Foundations Health Care Foundations Insurance Claims Processor Certified Billing & Coding Specialist Dental Assistant Certified Dental Assistant Pharmacy Technician Certified Pharmacy Technician Therapeutic Services Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse State License Health Care Technician Certified Nurses Assistant Home Health Aide Opticianry Nat’l Opticianry Competency Exam Certification

  17. Key benefits • Meet the needs of industry and the employer community for well-trained and credentialed workers • Maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of program design and delivery • Maximize the placements and earnings of students

  18. Two or three things you see in the DVD that are very different from the Job Corps we know today Take notes on…

  19. A picture is worth a thousand words...just watch

  20. How can Health and Wellness support the national goals?

  21. Exercise Example Goal 3: Students are ready to enter Job Corps and committed to finishing the program.

  22. New Website Information http://access.jobcorps.org if inside of JC Network or https://access.jobcorps.org if outside of JC network helpdesk@jobcorps.org or by phone at (800) 598-5008, option 5

  23. Q & A If you don’t know where you are going, you will never get there……

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