National Youth Employment Coalition
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Annual Forum Agenda Released!
The full agenda for the NYEC virtual 2020 Annual Forum has been released on the website. Each session will touch on recovery/healing from the COVID-19 pandemic, and/or strategy and mobilization looking into 2021. Take a look and register today!


Just Announced!
The Institute for Educational Leadership is hosting a pre-conference session on December 7th 2020. Attendees will explore essential competencies for Youth Service Professionals and capacity building strategies that continuously improve our work. Participants will also assess their current professional development and capacity building approach, identify action steps to strengthen the Youth Service Professional workforce, and sample new training modules. Learn more and register here!

Snapshot of Sessions
  • How to Help Youth Sustain Job Search for the Long Haul
  • Inspiring Hope: Strategic Programming for Black and Brown Men
  • A Workforce Board Strategy: Advancing Mental Health Services through the Youth Employment System
  • Advancing Youth FinCap: Basic Income and Financial Mentoring
  • Healing-Centered Liberation Policy
  • Translating Adolescent Brain Science: What We're Learning
  • Addressing Equity during Crises
  • Graffiti to Architecture
  • Let's Get to Work: Aiding Youth Employment
  • Data Insights and Policy Strategies Centered on Developing the Young Adult Workforce in a COVID-19 Recovery

Registration
Registration is now OPEN! Please see the ticket types below:

Ticket Levels:
  • Individual Ticket ($150+fees): One ticket enables one individual to attend the conference. 

  • Organizational Ticket ($400 + fees): One ticket enables up to six individuals (including the purchaser) of your choice to attend the conference for a saving of up to $500. In the registration form list the names and emails of the other attendees. 


  • Young Adult Add-On ($15 + fees): Discounted Young Adult Attendee Ticket for organizations/practioners to invite youth participants. 


See you (virtually) in December! 
News, Tools, Resources, and Job Postings
News & Resources:
  • NEW! We Voted. Here's What Needs to Happen Next. Please share insights and ideas in written, video, audio or visual form about what you and your peers are focusing on now. All submissions chosen for publication will receive a $25 gift card. Here's a quick form to help, with prompts: https://airtable.com/shr4qaS8RmrpnC9GV

  • NEW! Nominate youth/young adult changemakers for The Future We Need. We want to know what our peers are doing, connect them to resources and activists around the country, and help them get their stories and work out there to and expand the narrative. Nomination form: https://futureweneed.org/nominate/


  • FHI 360 National Institute for Work and Learning (NIWL) is looking for organizations that would be interested in partnering with FHI 360 for the 2021 reentry programs grants for DOL. The interested organizations can complete the letter of intent at the link by 12/31/20. The Collaborative, started in 2017, guides young adults ages 18-24 out of the justice system and towards successful entry into the workforce and educational systems, just as the familiar symbol on maps, the compass rose, helped sailors and pioneers find their way for generations.

  • If you have any employment, project-based, contracting, etc. opportunities for youth, please let us know! NYEC will publicize these opportunities and connect you to youth who are able to take advantage of them. Please send any notices to shanice.turner@nyec.org.
Job Opportunities:
In case you missed it...
Check out “In their Own Words: Young People Describe the Impact of COVID-19” a report that documents the lived experiences, needs, and strengths of 215 youth during the pandemic, and leads with their recommendations so that those working to respond, support, and rebuild are doing so with direct input from young people: https://roadmapproject.org/resources/in-their-own-words-young-people-describe-the-impact-of-covid-19/

This report—a collaboration between Road Map Project partners at the King County’s Reconnect to Opportunity, Soar, and Community Center for Education Results—expands on a survey designed for and by youth, and showcases six main themes that illustrate the interconnectedness of health, education, and employment.
About the National Youth Employment Coalition
The National Youth Employment Coalition improves the lives of the more than 4 million young people who are out of school and out of work. We do this by improving the effectiveness of the organizations, and the systems, that serve these "opportunity youth." Our more than 80 member organizations around the country represent those on the front-lines of tackling the nation's youth-employment crisis. Our 40th anniversary publication gives an overview of the state of the field.
Contact Us
(202) 780-5928
NYEC@nyec.org