Brokering Youth Pathways Toolkit

The Brokering Youth Pathways Toolkit was created by Hive Research Lab to share tools and techniques around the youth development practice of “brokering” or connecting youth to future learning opportunities and resources. The toolkit shares ways in which various out-of-school educators and professionals have approached the challenge of brokering. Hive Research Lab provides a framework, practice briefs, and reports that focus on a particular issue or change and provide concrete examples, as well as illustrate how partners have worked through designing new brokering routines in partnership with the Hive Research Lab team. You may use the toolkit to help develop insights for your organization, discover techniques to try to help broker opportunities to youth, or inspire your own process of exploring how teens and learning opportunities get connected in your context.

To learn more about the Brokering Youth Pathways Toolkit, click here.

https://brokering.hiveresearchlab.org/practice-briefs/

Youth with Justice Involvement Toolkit

In December 2020, the National Youth Employment Coalition, with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, has released Job Training for Youth with Justice Involvement: A Toolkit. The toolkit will help leaders and practitioners in both the juvenile justice system and workforce development system collaborate to effectively serve youth with justice involvement. This toolkit, directed at practitioners and leaders in the juvenile-justice system and others with limited familiarity with the workforce development system:

• Outlines evidence-based practices in youth workforce development,
• Provides an overview of the workforce system funded under the federal Workforce
  Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA),
• Makes recommendations for how to make WIOA-funded services work better for
  youth with justice involvement at the local level, and
• Lays out some key steps to forming effective interagency partnerships.

https://nyec.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/NYEC-Youth-with-Justice-Involvement-Toolkit.pdf