Reconnecting Youth to Success Mayor Pedro E. Segarra WELCOME 2 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Collaborative Meeting December 12, 2013 Reconnecting Youth to Success

Mayor Pedro E. Segarra WELCOME 2

Video ASPEN OYN CONVENING 3

Kim Oliver PROGRESS TO DATE 4

Hartford Aspen OYN Team 5

Key Team Take-Aways • Roles and models of youth leadership • Core competencies for front-line staff • Resolving barriers outside of education • Supporting families of OY 6

Hartford’s Shared Outcomes Short-term Long-term • • Youth Youth – Gain new career/ educational – Reconnect to education and readiness competencies to employment attain post-secondary – Gain credentials credentials/diploma and/or a • Collaborative/System job – Develop and/or expands 3 effective pathways to education and employment success for opportunity youth – Resolve system barriers – Enable increased adoption, replication, and the scaling up of these approaches 7

Collaborate for Impact • Build public will • Include representatives from key sectors (education, youth development, workforce, juvenile justice, behavioral health, youth, employers, etc.) • Include active participation by opportunity youth • Write a comprehensive implementation plan 8

Formalize Youth Leadership • Establish youth leadership group • Target sub-populations – Justice-involved – Single Parents – DCF/Foster-Care 9

Use Data • Use RBA framework • Dan Garewski, CWP • Vicki Gallon Clark, BHCA • Share data among key • Scott Gaul, HFPG • Alissa Johnston, CWP partners • Sean Seepersad, OPP • Implement data system • Kimberly Williams-Rivera, OPP 10

Jobs 3 Hartford Area Jobs 2.5 Connecticut was among the five worst 2 performer states from Less than 2001 Q1 to 2013 Q2. At least 4 1.5 high 2.6 year school, 1 college , 23.7% 26.2% 0.5 0 College, but no 4 year -1 -0.5 HS degree, 10.2% diploma, -1.9 -1 39.9% -1.5 -2 Hartford CT US -2.5 Source: Current Employment Statistic (CES), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Source: BLS, Education and training categories by detailed occupation, 2010 tabulations by Center for Labor Market Studies. 11

HS Diploma or Higher Education-Employment Ratio Hartford Area Connecticut 90 90 80 80 70 70 60 60 50 50 1999/00 1999/00 40 40 2006/07 2006/07 2012/13 2012/13 30 30 20 20 10 10 0 0 HS Students HS Dropouts HS 13-15 Years Bachelor's or HS Students HS Dropouts HS 13-15 Years Bachelor's or Diploma/GED of College Higher Diploma/GED of College Higher Source: Monthly CPS, January 2006 through December 2007 and January Source: Monthly CPS, January 1999 through December 2000, January 2006 through 2012 through October 2013, public use files, U.S. Census Bureau, tabulations December 2007, and January 2012 through October 2013, public use files, U.S. Census Bureau, by Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University. Tabulations by Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University. Note: East/West Hartford Metro area definition was changed in 2005. For this reason CPS data for this area before 2005 are not comparable. 12

Job Readiness (18 – 24 year olds) • Job ready 60 – High school diploma 50 – Working – Not justice involved 40 • Almost job ready – No high school diploma 30 – High school diploma but not in 50.5 school or working 20 38.2 – Not justice involved 34.2 28.2 27.6 • Not job ready 21.3 10 – No high school diploma – No previous work experience 0 Job Ready Almost Job Ready Not Job Ready – Justice involved Hartford Connecticut Source: 2000 Decennial Census of Population and Housing and 2010 and 2011 American Community Surveys, public use files, tabulations by Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University. 13

Foreign Immigration “…the odds of having low literacy skills (in the context of an 40 assessment in English) are about ten times higher for foreign language immigrants from a disadvantaged background than 35 for non- immigrants from advantaged backgrounds…” OECD (2013), Time for the U.S. to Reskill?: What the Survey of Adult Skills Says, OECD Skills Studies, OECD Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264204904-en 30 25 Hartford 20 37.4 CT 35.5 15 29.3 US 28.5 10 16 14.1 13.5 13.5 13 12.5 11.6 5 10.5 0 Foreign-Born Share Foreign-Born Share Foreign-Born Share Foreign-Born Share (2000 Total) (2010/11 Total) (2000 16-24) (2010/11 16-24) Source: 2000 Decennial Census of Population and Housing and 2010 and 2011 American Community 14 Surveys, public use files, tabulations by Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University.

Educational Attainment (16 – 24 year olds in 2012/13) Hartford Area Connecticut 33.3% 34.5% 27.6% 27.9% 19.7% 20.4% 13.1% 11.3% 6.3% 5.9% HS Students HS Dropouts H.S. 13-15 Years Bachelor's or HS Students HS Dropouts H.S. 13-15 Years Bachelor's or Diploma/GED of College Higher Diploma/GED of College Higher Degree Degree Source: Monthly CPS, January 2012 through October 2013, public use files, U.S. Census Bureau, tabulations by 15 Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University. Note: East/West Hartford consists of Hartford County, Middlesex County, and Tolland County.

Out-of-School and Out-of-Work (16 – 24 year olds) 20 Hartford 18 1.3 0 16 3 14 11.5 12 10 44.9 17.2 8 14.7 39.3 6 11.9 4 2 <12 or 12, No HS Diploma HS Diploma/GED 0 Some College, No Degree Associates Degree Hartford CT US Bachelor's Degree Master's or Higher Degree Source: 2010 and 2011 American Community Surveys, public use files, tabulations 16 by Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University.

Out-of-School and Out-of-Work Race/Ethnicity Hartford Connecticut U.S. 6.9 3.8 4.5 3.3 25.4 25.1 32.2 42.4 45.1 2.5 64.6 0 2.0 22.4 19.6 White Black Asian Hispanic Other Source: 2010 and 2011 American Community Surveys, public use files, tabulations by Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University. 17

Out-of-School and Out-of-Work Gender Hartford Connecticut U.S. 42.3 47 48.4 51.6 53 57.7 Male Female Source: 2010 and 2011 American Community Surveys, public use files, tabulations by Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University. 18

Out-of-School and Out-of-Work Single Mothers (15 – 24 year olds) Hartford Connecticut U.S. OSOW, OSOW, OSOW, 29.7% 32.1% 39.3% Not Not Not OSOW, OSOW, OSOW, 60.7% 67.9% 70.3% In Hartford, 29.6% of OSOW In CT, 16.6% of OSOW were In U.S., 15.0% of OSOW were were single mothers versus single mothers versus 4.0% for single mothers versus 4.7% for 9.6% for those not OSOW. those not OSOW. those not OSOW. Source: 2009, 2010, and 2011 American Community Surveys, public use files, tabulations by Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University. 19

Out-of-School and Out-of-Work Institutionalized, Native-born Males (16 – 24 year olds) Connecticut U.S. 20 18 16 14 12 10 17.6 8 15.6 13.5 6 9.4 9.2 8.7 8.1 4 6.1 2 2.2 0 0 <12 or 12, No HS HS Graduate or GED Some College, No Associate's Degree Bachelor or Higher Diploma Degree Degree Source: 2009, 2010, and 2011 American Community Surveys, public use files, tabulations by Center for 20 Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University.

Poverty Expected Years in Poverty for % OSOW 16 60 18 – 64 year olds in CT Considered Poor 14 50 12 40 10 8 30 14 51.9 6 20 32.9 4 25.9 6.2 10 4.3 2 2.9 1.8 1.4 0 0 <12 or 12, HS Some Associate's Bachelor's Master's or Hartford Connecticut U.S. No HS Graduate College, No Degree Higher Higher Diploma or GED Degree Degree Degree Source: 2010 and 2011 American Community Surveys, public use files, tabulations Source: 2007 through 2011 American Community Surveys, public use files, tabulations by by Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University. Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University. Note: (1) Expected lifetime years in poverty/near poverty of are ignored for all students ages 18-to-22. Poor/near poor persons are those whose family incomes are below 125% of the poverty threshold defined by the government. 21

Lifetime Earnings 18 – 64 year olds (in thousands) Connecticut 4,500 4,000 3,500 3,000 2,500 2,000 3,919 1,500 2,908 1,000 1,821 1,693 1,372 500 807 - <12 or 12, No HS HS Graduate or Some College, No Associate's Degree Bachelor's Higher Master's or Higher Diploma GED Degree Degree Degree 22

Build Effective Pathways • Support 100 youth complete their • Anne Carr, Career Resources • Adrienne Cochrane, ULGH pathway program • Tiana Hercules, Project • Complete asset mapping of Longevity • Alex Johnson, CWP partner organizations and • Judy McBride, HFPG programs in the OY system • Iran Nozario, Peacebuilders • • Enhance partnerships and Sharon O'Meara, HFPG • Hector Rivera, OPP service agreements in selected • John Shemo, MHA pathways • Andy Tyskiewicz, CREC • Jane Williams, ConnSCU • Complete a gap analysis • Determine strategies to address "at risk" youth • Strengthen supports for families 23

Build Effective Pathways • Enhance existing effective pathways and programs for opportunity youth • Create effective pathways for opportunity youth to succeed in school and careers • Build on-ramps to pathways • Provide supports within pathways 24