Overview
Intake & Eligibility
Intake and eligibility are about first impression. How can we make it simple for the young adults?
Resources
- WIOA Youth & Young Adult Eligibility Brief - criteria to determine the eligibility of in-school and out-of-school youth, including definitions of terms, poverty guidelines, high poverty attachment
- Data Element Validation Chart
- Youth Program Eligibility Fields in OSOS - Recorded workshop, slides, and resources
Sample forms
Objective Assessments
With a strengths-based approach and managing expectations, staff can change the assessment experience for the youth and serve them effectively to develop educational and career pathway planning.
Resources
- Objective Assessments and Individual Service Strategy – Separate and Connected – Recorded workshop, slides, and resources
- WorkforceGPS – Strategies and Considerations: A Brief on Youth Assessments
Sample forms
- Stepping Stone to Success Intake & Assessment - developed with Mathematica & Ohio Department of Labor and has evidence on avoiding triggering past trauma
- Sample forms from local areas
Career Assessments
- Video describing interest and work values career assessments in CareerZone and factsheet
- Road Trip Nation – simple engaging assessment with young adults videos
- O*NET interest profiler – helps find out the careers to explore based on 60 questions
Financial Literacy & Life Skills Assessments
- My Employability Score in JobZone – Short questionnaire to help youth understand factors impacting their chances to become employable
- Casey Life Skills Toolkit – tools designed to access independent skills needed by youth and young adults to achieve their long-term goal. E.g., work habits, money management, civic engagement, healthy relationships and more
Individual Service Strategy (ISS)
Youth professionals conduct a multitude of assessments to get an objective gauge of youth’s past and present and then develop an ISS, not for the youth but with the youth. This ensures youth buy-in to work towards their career and life goals. The progressing trust building between the youth and the professional is documented with regular updates to the ISS.
- Objective Assessments and Individual Service Strategy – Separate and Connected – Recorded workshop, slides, and resources
- Sample forms from local areas
- WorkforceGPS – Sample Individual Service Strategy