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State Workforce
Investment Board
PO Box 1728
Helena, MT 59624-1728
Phone: 406-444-2607
Fax: 406-444-3037

Governor's State Workforce Investment Board (SWIB)

Youth Council

Mission:

The Montana State Workforce Investment Board and Youth Council will provide leadership by serving as a catalyst to connect out-of-school youth and at-risk youth with quality secondary and post-secondary educational opportunities and high-growth and other employment opportunities.

The Montana State Workforce Investment Board and Youth Council will ensure that workforce investment youth activities complement and reinforce academic and occupational curriculum, as youth policy makers and system builders.

Goals:

  • Move Montana to achieve the federal vision of prioritizing investments that serve the neediest youth: Youth transitioning out of Foster Care, Youth in the Juvenile Justice System, Youth of incarcerated parents, Migrant youth, Native American / Indian youth, and Youth with disabilities.
  • The Montana SWIB Youth Council is committed to contracting with youth providers who raise the literacy, social, and/or technical skills of the youth.
  • Assure that funding for youth programs is performance-based and that systems and programs are focused on outcomes.
  • Develop effective partnerships to create a greater connection between and among all youth programs and initiatives to eliminate duplication of services and provide more efficient services to youth.

Duties:

  1. Recommend Policy regarding Youth.
  2. Identify and approve the WIA Manual's Sixth Barrier to Employment for Youth.
  3. Identify issues and recommend solutions regarding Youth transitioning out of Foster Care.
  4. Identify issues and recommend solutions regarding Youth of incarcerated parents.
  5. Identify issues and recommend solutions regarding performance issues for 14- and 15-year-old youth.
  6. Coordinate with Youth Providers
    • Existing WIA Youth Providers regarding criteria for Request for Proposals
    • Non-WIA Youth Providers to develop linkages where possible.
  7. Identify the Out of School Youth funding ratio.
  8. Identify and develop criteria for awarding of funds for youth activities.
  9. Take the lead in youth planning , programming, and accountability.
  10. Develop portions of the State Plan relative to Youth.
  11. Lay the groundwork for the collaborative infrastructure to support a viable system of connections to the healthy components of society, such as school and employment.

Revised:  October 13, 2007