Stevens questions workforce readiness and civic engagement measurement
Stevens asks how DYCD measures workforce readiness and civic engagement outcomes. Asherall says individual providers track employment and resume-building data, and civic engagement activities like polling sites and youth councils are implemented at the provider level.
What about workforce readiness?
How do you measure that?
Workforce readiness, have you placed young people in work or people who come to the program?
How have you done that?
So our providers on the ground that offer, and every program is different, not all of them provide workforce, but the ones that do offer, they do have a system on site.
So every provider may have.
Data on, you know, a young person was employed now, they're now able to, you know, they have their resume building, so they're able to do some of that and they measure it on their own.
And your civic engagement, what does that look like?
How many folks you register to vote, how many folks you get to the poll, how does that work?
So, again, I hate to repeat myself, but, yes, each provider, we offer those opportunities of civic engagement, and we offer exposure for our providers to take advantage of these things, but the providers on their own are the ones that actually implement it, and they invite us in those places.
I don't know if I'm missing.
Board of Elections is another piece.
You have to put on your mic so I can hear you.
Thank you.
So at Cornerstones, there is also access provided by partnering with Board of Elections and making sure that our polling sites are available to residents, seniors, and also young people outside of their regular schools.
So that's another way that we infuse it or through themes and just...
Coaching our providers to make civic engagement part of like youth council, advisory board, that kind of thing.
Okay.
Thank you.