The National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth)
The National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth)
a. Individualized Learning Plan (ILP)
An individualized learning plan (ILP) is a document and an ongoing process in which students use to define their career goals and post-secondary plans. Many states have adopted policies that require all middle and/or high school students to develop and maintain their ILPs in order to make schools more personalized and improve student outcomes. Source: NCWD/Y
- Guideposts for Success
- Fact Sheet: Individualized Learning Plans
- Policy Brief: Using Individualized Learning Plans to Produce College and Career Ready High School Graduates
- Info Brief: Families and College and Career Readiness: What Schools Can Do to Engage Families in the Individualized Learning Pan (ILP) Process
- Info Brief: Understanding the New Vision for Career Development: The Role of family
- Use of Individualized Learning Plans: A Promising Practice for Driving College and Career Efforts
- Promoting Quality Individualized Learning Plans – A “How to Guide” Focused on the High School Years
- The Nature and Use of Individualized Learning Plans as a Career Intervention Strategy
- Developing Self-Determination and Career Readiness Skills Through Individualized Learning Plans
b. State Leader Network
Policy analysis of career development: Alignment of the evidence base to state mandates
The study involves a policy analysis of the executive orders and regulation guidelines being used in all 36 states in the United States. The purpose of the analysis is to determine the extent to which current policy language reflects career development evidence based on supporting career readiness among youth with and without disabilities. The policy analysis will also evaluate the extent to which policy implementation guidelines include insuring that youth can get access to career exploration activities, career planning and management activities etc.
Youth access to employability or employment programs and activities: Policy analysis of United States career and workforce development efforts
The study involves a web-based policy analysis of career and workforce development programs and activities in all fifty states in the United States to determine the extent to which youth with and without disabilities can get access to career development activities as opposed to employment services. The study utilizes coding strategies on what current programs and activities focus and how they are implemented.
c. Career and Education Planning in non K-12 Settings
Case Study on Career Planning for Postsecondary and Workforce Development
The study involves identifying examples of organizations and postsecondary institutions that are successfully using individualized plans to promote postsecondary and workforce development.
Right Turn Program Evaluation Study
The Right Turn Career-Focused Transition Initiative is a career development program for youth that are involved or at risk of becoming involved in the juvenile justice system. Right Turn is being implemented in five high crime communities across the country. This comprehensive program engages youth in education, training and workforce development through a 3-phase career development process: a) Self-Exploration, b) Career Exploration, and c) Career Planning and Management. Additionally, youth participate in restorative justice projects to give back to their communities. Mentors, case managers and other caring adults support the youth during and after the completion of the program. The purpose of this evaluation study is to examine the experiences of key stakeholders in the Right Turn program. The key stakeholders include the case managers, youth, and the employers/partners that employ the youth. The aim of the study is to gain a deep understanding of the nature of the Right Turn program.
Career Development Implementation Strategies Guide
Ensuring that all youth are career and college ready upon high school graduation has become a primary education goal in most states. A promising method of attaining this goal is to engage all youth in quality comprehensive career development programs and activities. The purpose of the Career Development Implementation Strategies Guide is to support states in their efforts to improve career development opportunities for all youth, including youth with disabilities, by providing state-level functional and pragmatic guidance on implementing quality comprehensive systems of career development. The central theses of the Guide are (1) that in order to become career ready, all youth need to be provided with access to quality career development programs and (2) that career readiness drives college readiness. The guide is divided into two parts. Part I serves as a primer to quality youth career development systems and Part II serves as an implementation guide. Specifically, Part II identifies seven promising career development implementation strategies and accompanying resources for each strategy.