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Jenny Bogoni, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships
Leveraging Resources to Support the Educational Needs of Disconnected Youth
Philadelphia Youth NetworkPhiladelphia Youth Network
American Youth Policy ForumDecember 14, 2009
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AgendaAgenda
1. About the Philadelphia Youth Network
2. Case Study of Project U-Turn
3. Conditions for Success
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Philadelphia Youth NetworkPhiladelphia Youth Network
Vision:
Philadelphia’s young people take their rightful places as full and contributing members of a world-class workforce for the region .
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Philadelphia Youth NetworkPhiladelphia Youth Network
Mission:
As a catalyst for collective action, the Philadelphia Youth Network makes connections among individuals, organizations and systems. We increase capacity and resources in order to provide world-class preparation so our City’s youth can thrive in a regional and global economy.
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Philadelphia Youth NetworkPhiladelphia Youth Network
History: • Started in 1999 to sustain the city’s School-to-
Work system and manage provisions of the Workforce Investment Act
• Staffed the Youth Council from inception
• Serves as administrator of WIA and related investments
• Began with the vision to use WIA funds to leverage additional investments and broad systems change
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Philadelphia Youth NetworkPhiladelphia Youth Network
A Decade Later:
• Substantially increased its portfolio of investments to approximately $35 million in FY ‘10
• Manages a large-scale youth workforce development system serving nearly 10,000 youth annually
• Convenes a city-wide collaborative that has managed to dramatically increase the number of high-quality educational options for disconnected youth
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Philadelphia Youth NetworkPhiladelphia Youth Network
Two citywide initiatives:
• Convenes Project U-Turn, a cross-sector collaborative, addressing city-wide capacity to support struggling students and OSY
• Leads WorkReady Philadelphia, the City’s youth workforce development system
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Project U-Turn: a citywide campaign to focus public attention on Philadelphia’s dropout crisis and to design strategies and leverage investments to resolve it.
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Project U-Turn Major SuccessesProject U-Turn Major Successes
Tangible Results:• Nearly 5,000 multiple pathways slots representing a true
portfolio of options for out-of-school and disconnected youth • Re-Engagement Center at the Central School District
headquarters to assist students in re-enrolling in school• Education Support Center created inside Department of Human
Services• More than $73 Million leveraged to support work plan
Political Accomplishments:• Dropout challenge is embraced by the Mayor, Schools
Superindendent, and other key leaders• Assembled and maintained a high-level, cross-sector
partnership
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Setting the StageSetting the Stage
Strategic Decisions:
• Created a formal out-of-school youth committee
• Increased the Council’s investment in OSY from 30% to 50% of the WIA funds
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In RetrospectIn Retrospect
Key Steps:
• Selected to receive funding from the Youth Transitions Funders Group – 1 of 5 cities
• Made major investments in data collection and analysis on the outcomes and characteristics of struggling students in Philadelphia
• Created and articulated an agenda – a Call to Action – based on the data
• Strategically positioned the work to be adopted by the Mayor’s Office and the School District
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Creating the Right EnvironmentCreating the Right Environment
Recommendations:
• Develop local and regional capacity to support dropout re-engagement
• Promote collection and analysis of data on dropouts and near dropouts
• Support local and regional efforts to innovate
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Philadelphia Youth NetworkPhiladelphia Youth Network
For more information, contact:[email protected]
www.pyninc.org267-502-3737
Leveraging Resources to Support the Educational Needs of Disconnected Youth