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<span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">Dear Colleagues,</span></div>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">We invite you to join other Ohio State stakeholders to discuss possible coordination around the recent announcement of the Department of Labor’s Youth Career Connect Grant Program. Award funding is expected in the $2 - $7 million
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<font face="Calibri" size="3"> Thursday, December 5, 2013<u></u><u></u></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3"> 1:00-3:00 pm <u></u><u></u></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3"> @ TBD</font> <br></p><font face="Calibri" size="3">We invite you or your designee to attend this discussion. If you are aware of other units or projects that should be represented, please contact us to arrange for additional invitees.</font>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">Please read over the announcement at </font><font face="Calibri" size="3"><a href="http://www.doleta.gov/ycc/pdf/Youth_Career_Connect_SGA_13-01.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.doleta.gov/ycc/pdf/Youth_Career_Connect_SGA_13-01.pdf</a> a</font><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">nd
come prepared to discuss.</span></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">We are in communication with the program officer for clarification about limited submission status. But even if Ohio State would be able to serve as the lead applicant on more than one proposal, it is probably in all of our best interests
to find possible synergies and coordinate proposals.</font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">Given that context, we have begun to identify projects whose goals may align with those of the grant program:<u></u><u></u></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">· K-16 school transformation projects that include:
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">o Integrated Academic and Career-Focused Learning<u></u><u></u></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">o Work-Based Learning and Exposure to the World of Work
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">o Robust Employer Engagement
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">o Individualized Career and Academic Counseling
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<font face="Calibri" size="3">o Integration of Post-Secondary Education and Training.<u></u><u></u></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri"><font size="3">Please note that proposals must include at least one partner from each category: </font></font></p>
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<li style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal"><font face="Calibri"><font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Local
or State Workforce I</font>nvestment<font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> Board (Ohio's state version is Jobs and Family Services)</font></font></font></span></li><li><font><font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Local Education Agency: school district or educational service center (A Columbus City Schools representative will attend this meeting. </font>Some of Ohio State's current partnerships around school transformation/STEM/early
college </font>schools<font> include Metro STEM Early College High School and Springfield Global Impact STEM Academy. In addition, ODEE is working with Columbus City Schools on a Digital First project with students and teachers in four high schools. PACT and
OSUMC are in discussions with Columbus City Schools around a feeder pattern transformation for Near East Side Health Sciences Academies.)</font></font></li><li style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font><font>Employers or Consortia of Employers in the areas targeted by this program:
<b>STEM</b>, <b>finance and insurance</b>, education services, <b>manufacturing</b>,
<b>information science</b>, <b>health care.</b> (The bolded industries</font><font> also align with the State of Ohio has targeted for growth and therefore, with the Board of Regents-funded Ohio Means Jobs and Internships program or OMIC. Ohio State is the
lead institution on a current OMIC program, partnering with Columbus State and North Central State.)</font></font></li><li style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal"><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Institution
of Higher Education</font></font></span></li></ul>
<p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">If you are involved in a project that aligns with the Youth Career Connect program, please send us a several sentence summary before the December
5 meeting. </font></font></p>
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