NEW WAYS TO WORK INC
555 SOUTH MAIN STREET 3, SEBASTOPOL, CA 95472 newwaystowork.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: NEW WAYS TO WORK'S MISSION IS TO STRENGTHEN THE WAY IN WHICH COMMUNITIES HELP PREPARE YOUNG PEOPLE FOR THE FUTURE. FOSTERING CONNECTIONS AMONG OUR SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT AND CARE PROVIDES THE MEANS TO MAXIMIZE THE USE OF PUBLIC RESOURCES TO EFFECTIVELY SERVE ALL YOUTH. NEW WAYS HELPS CREATE POWERFUL PARTNERSHIPS AMONG SCHOOLS, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, THE PRIVATE SECTOR, GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO ENSURE BETTER ACCESS TO QUALITY EDUCATIONAL AND CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH.

NEW WAYS TO WORK'S MISSION IS TO STRENGTHEN THE WAY IN WHICH COMMUNITIES HELP PREPARE YOUNG PEOPLE FOR THE FUTURE.

Youth Ecology Corps:------------------------Focus Areas: Program Quality, Sustainability and Expansion Support New Ways to Work (New Ways) supported ongoing implementation of the Youth Ecology Corps program in Sonoma County, California (SCYEC) focused on program design and implementation, communications, expanding the base of investing project hosts, partner convening, legislative issues, evaluation design support and documentation. New Ways coordinated legislative visits to program sites through a Visit a Crew Day in the summer of 2019 and continued to support the Career Pathways component of the SCYEC that provides year-round opportunities for youth and young adults, including an internship with the Water Agency, Regional Parks or County General Services. The pathways model is designed to help youth and young adults explore and prepare for careers in the water industry, parks and county general services. The initiative leverages workforce and other social service investments with public works dollars to provide youth and young adults employment experience in the ecological and conservation-related fields, as well as other priority fields in demand with the county.Work-Based Learning and Employer Engagement:---------------------------------------------Focus Areas: Systems and Tools Development, Capacity Building New Ways worked closely over the year with Earn & Learn, updating and creating an on-line portal for the Work Based Learning (WBL) toolset developed by New Ways in 2017 and laying the groundwork for creating customized WBL toolsets for Earn and Learn replication sites, including Monterrey, California. Earn & Learn also received coaching, tools and materials development support for the replication process, including team support in developing a series of orientation materials for new Earn & Learn sites. New Ways also worked with the New York City Department of Education to update its WBL toolkit and materials to support high-quality work- based learning for students in Career and Technical Education programs. In addition, New Ways created and posted updated frameworks and tools designed to help organizations and individuals increase their employer engagement capacity. The on- line WBL toolkit created for the Los Angeles/Orange Country Regional Consortia comprised of 28 community colleges in the region, was launched in the spring of 2020.Foster Youth Employment-----------------------Focus Areas: Internship Program Design and Implementation New Ways supported the Workforce Professionals Training Institute and The Pinkerton Foundation in the implementation of a Mentored Internship program for Foster Care Youth in New York City, and developed and delivered workshops supported by a set of customized internship materials for the project The initiative, initially launched in January of 2018, engaged 8 foster care agencies and served approximately 200 youth and young adults. New Ways assisted in program design, developed planning tools and frameworks and provided staff development and training to the project partners. Project Activity was completed in the summer of 2019.Career Pathways----------------Focus Areas: High School Design and Improvement, Tools and Framework Development, Strategic Planning New Ways provided final reports to JobsFirstNYC and New Visions for Public Schools on the design and early implementation of the Transfer to Careers(T2C. The initiative is designed to integrate career development activities in 12 of the citys transfer high schools focused on supporting over-age and under credited students with credit recovery. New Ways conducted a set of stakeholder interviews and issued a subsequent report and conducted a national scan and report of quality practices in the career development/high school space to help inform the T2C initiative. New Ways also worked with Sonoma County Regional Parks on the design of an internal Career Pathways program and assisted Sonoma Water and other partners to lay the groundwork for pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship models in the county in partnership with Bayworks and JVS San Francisco.COVID-19 Response-------------------Focus Areas: Remote Work-Based Learning, Summer Jobs Options and Policy Recommendations In response to the COVID-19, New Ways created a remote learning portal on the NYC DOE WBL Toolkit website and included remote WBL options in the updates to the activities in Earn & Learn WBL Toolset, as well as helping with the development of materials and presentations for both communities on the topic. New Ways worked closely with a set of partners around the country to disseminate information, deliver workshops and provide assistance in the development of models to support expanded remote work-based learning opportunities, the application of project- based learning approaches to summer jobs programs and the implementation of strategies to engage youth in solutions to issues created by the pandemic. New Ways released and disseminated a white paper in the early spring titled Rebuilding the Workforce System for Young Adults. The paper addresses the fact that the sudden shock of the COVID-19 pandemic to the American economy is proving to be devastating to many communities and families. One class of workers are particularly negatively impacted; Americas youngest workers, ages 16-24 and already in crisis, will be decimated in this unexpected economic shakeup. The paper explores the issues and provides some solutions going forward in recovery.

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