Participants - Ernie Sullivan, Chair, Dr. Deborah Bingham-Catri,
Martha Dorsey, Alan Mayne, Richard Brown, Kyle McKnight, Dave Johnson
Staff Members - Lyn Bissonnette, John Weber, Cyrena
Donahue
Introductions of Committee Members
Discussed logistics of future meetings. Conference Call is
scheduled for Tuesday, January 25 at 10:00 am. Key timelines for committee
to be aware. Sometime between the 7th and 11th of February a
teleconference will be held to look at state plan. Martha Dorsey - 9 am
prefers, asked to be included and time considered. Try to avoid Tuesday.
Try to schedule call close to 11 a.m. Review of Minutes and Membership of
group. Add Martha Dorsey to committee list (Mdorsey@Co.Clermont.Oh.us).
Review of Committee expectations and outcomes - Focus on 3
key areas - Vision of this committee, desired outcome, main objective -
Focus on Strategy #5. The strategy becomes our core of what we do. 2nd -
key initiatives. Report on any issues in the way of getting our initiative
done.
Review of Timeline - February 7, Draft of State Plan
issues to Board.
Discussion of March 1, 2000 timeline and how the
transitional plans will have the vision and guidance from the state youth
council. John Weber explained how the Youth Transition Plans are to obtain
planning money for 3 months and input from council will be utilized when
developing 5 year strategic plan. Debi - asked staff to summarize what the
locals have submitted in their transitional youth plans.
Alan - Added - these could be used to help build 5 year
strategic plans on state and local level.
Committee wants to look at what is being done locally.
Kyle - Asked about inviting a local area to come and talk
about what they are doing with youth on local level.
Ernie - Suggested -We should see what the summaries of the
plans produced before we invite a local area.
Lyn - Suggested - We could identify some programs, areas
that have incredible results and innovative programs, she gave examples of
programs.
It was suggested to review public comment on youth portion
of state plan at March 22, breakout session.
Transition Youth Plan - Review of plan and 10 program
elements. Lyn reviewed the ten program elements and talked about each
element and what it means. Extensive discussion around the "10"
elements was held. Committee members talked about their local experiences
and how important and expensive applying these elements to youth, would
be. Important that partnering with employers is necessary to help make
these programs successful. Discussion was held on board makeup and
participation from employers. Lyn discussed funding for youth programs and
the difference between the youth program under JTPA and WIA. Can we get
dollars allocated by county for youth estimates of Lyn explained
allocations won’t be known from DOL until February. Ernie suggested that
allocations for youth be talked about at next teleconference.
Ernie will address to the full board the change in the
transition plan regarding the 10 elements.
Reviewed the key youth performance measurers (8) and the
document that the Performance Measure Committee wrote.
Debi asked how is the Performance Measured, what is the
instrumentation used. Some are easy to collect and others are not. The
Committee was not designed to look at performance measures in that detail.
Cyrena commented, she referred the committee to the assumptions and
purpose of the committee mentioned in the report.
Lyn talked about the required Performance Measures and the
current MIS that local will be utilizing.
Began discussion on Vision and Strategy Development -
Ernie told his vision for the Youth Council. Committee agreed, it was a
start and saved the wordsmithing for the conference call. Strategy #5 is
helping to guide the committees vision.
Ernie reviewed the committees expectations and outcomes
based on the key initiatives.
Key Actions - Staff will review local plans to share best
practices. Summary. How are locals delivering youth services.
Committee review state plan in February. Committee review public
comment of youth piece of state plan.
