Subtitle Youth Without Youth
In the postwar era, Dominic encounters Veronica (Alexandra Maria Lara), the reincarnation of his youthful love, at which point the film lifts off into a serenely cracked pan-spiritualism. After a bolt of lightning strikes her, Veronica starts speaking in Sanskrit, channeling a 14th-century Hindu nun named Rupini before going back further in linguistic time to ancient Babylon and beyond.
subtitle Youth Without Youth
Her lover urges her to push on to the roots of language - to that "inarticulate moment of the beginning" - but at the peril of her own youth. The failures of the body and heart are the movie's twin obsessions, strained through overindulgent pacing and dialogue that prompts the giggles:
Purpose. To transmit policy guidance to State/local workforce investment area on procedures for providing local youth activities under title I, subtitle B of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998.
Background. The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), which repealed the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), introduced changes in the way services for youth activities are obtained and operated. Program Year 2000 is the first full year in which all local workforce investment areas (local areas) will operate programs that are more comprehensive, competitively select youth service providers, and reflect the principles of youth development. Under WIA, the ocus shifts to longer term, comprehensive services for youth, including a requirement that ten program elements be made available for youth within each local area, and that follow up is provided for all youth participants for a minimum of twelve months.
The principles and practices of youth development determine the context for the success of WIA youth services. Youth development is a process in which young people have needs met, competencies built, and are prepared for adult life expectations. A youth development environment provides high expectations for participants, opportunities for input and involvement of caring adults in their lives.
Under WIA, comprehensive programming includes follow-up over time. This is a critical youth development principle, as it provides a sequenced link between learning and development within the youth services program and the world of work. Support is a critical dimension of youth development that concretely links direct help in a young person's life with ongoing connection to an adult who can guide them through the challenges of entering and succeeding in employment.
The newly established local youth councils under WIA section 117(h) (29 U.S.C. 2832) are integral to implementing successful local programs reflecting youth development principles. Youth Councils are appointed by the Local Workforce Investment Board (Local Board), in cooperation with the Chief Elected Official, (1) to develop strategies and goals for the portions of the local plan relating to eligible youth; (2) to recommend eligible providers of youth activities; (3) to conduct oversight of eligible youth providers; and (4) to coordinate youth activities; subject to the approval of the Local Board.
WIA, in section 123 (29 U.S.C. 2843), also requires the identification of eligible youth service providers by awarding grants and contracts on a competitive basis for youth activities and services. The competitive selection process under WIA provides Local Boards, with recommendations from the youth councils, an opportunity to select youth activities providers who can best serve local youth needs.
Questions have been posed about administrative procurement procedures and about the extent to which providers of youth services, such as the program design framework component, the ten program elements, and youth services delivered in a One-Stop setting, must be competitively selected. This guidance addresses these questions and consolidates earlier issuances. The following sections include:
SectionContents4. WIA RequirementsProvides relevant statutory and regulatoryrequirements for the competitive selection of youth providers.5. Program Design Framework ComponentDescribes the essential elements of the program design framework component and explains the extent to which the competitive selection ofproviders applies.6. Ten Program ElementsDescribes the ten program elements within thecontext of the four major themes, the provision of these elements within a local area, and the application of competitive selection for providers.7. One-Stop Youth ServicesExplains how One-Stop operators can provideservices to youth and how the competitive selection requirement applies to One-Stop operators as providers of the program design frameworkcomponent.8. Competitive SelectionExplains the applicability of existing procurement regulations to the selection of eligible youth service providers.9. Application of Competitive Selection to Statewide FundsExplains the applicability of the competitive procurement requirements for statewide funds.
WIA Requirements. The requirements for competitive selection of local youth activities affect Local Boards, youth councils, and potential service providers. The requirements are as follows:
WIA section 123 (29 U.S.C. 2843), requires that eligible providers of youth activities be identified by awarding grants or contracts on a competitive basis, based on recommendations from the youth council and the criteria contained in the State Plan;
WIA section 112(b)(18)(B) (29 U.S.C. 2822), requires that the State Plan include information identifying the criteria to be used by the Local Boards in awarding grants for youth activities, including the criteria that the Governor and the Local Boards will use to identify effective and ineffective youth activities and providers of those activities;
Under WIA section 117(h)(4)(B)(i) (29 U.S.C. 2832), one of the principal duties of the youth council is to recommend eligible providers of youth activities in the local area to be awarded grants or contracts on a competitive basis by the Local Board consistent with WIA section 123 (29 U.S.C. 2843).
Program Design Framework Component. The program design framework is an integral component (referred to as the "program design component" or "entry-level case management services") of a local area's youth services. WIA regulations (20 CFR 664.405) explain that the local grant recipient (or fiscal agent) may conduct the program design component without being competitively selected. The program design component creates an opportunity for a central access point to both determine eligibility and make appropriate referrals for the youth.
The program design framework component is an essential ingredient in helping local areas develop comprehensive service strategies for youth based upon their individual needs. It consists of intake, an objective assessment, individual service strategy development, and information and referrals for youth participants (WIA section 129(c)(1)) (29 U.S.C. 2854).
Individual service strategies should also include providing information on local youth activities and referrals to the providers of those services. Information and referrals are activities that any youth may receive, regardless of eligibility for youth activities. These activities may be funded by sources other than WIA.
It is appropriate to review service strategies with the participant periodically and make modifications when needed. In fulfilling its overall service strategy for youth, the entity providing the program design framework component may use a case management approach to determine whether goals in the individual service strategy are being met. This approach ensures that youth are actively engaged in receiving services from eligible service providers, and that participants receive follow-up services when exiting the program. These types of case management services may be provided directly by the local grant recipient without a competitive selection, as part of the overall activities provided by eligible service providers or may be competitively selected separately. For example, local areas may determine that case management is part of the services that are expected from competitively selected providers.
It should be noted that simply maintaining contact with a participant, while s/he is enrolled in the WIA youth program, is not considered a type of follow-up service (providers of which must be competitively selected) because the contact occurs during program participation, whereas follow-up services occur when the participant exits the program and is no longer enrolled in an activity as described in TEGL 7-99 which describes the requirements of the WIA title I performance accountability system. WIA youth follow-up requirements are more fully described in 20 CFR 664.450.
Ten Program Elements. Under WIA section 129(c) (29 U.S.C. 2854) and 20 CFR 664.410, comprehensive youth services consist of ten required program elements which can be grouped around four major themes:
Local Boards must make all ten program elements available to all youth participants in the local area, although individual youth participants need not participate in all ten. Local areas have the discretion to determine the specific services provided to individual youth participants, based on each participant's objective assessment and individual service strategy. However, local grant recipients need not provide all ten program elements with WIA funds if certain services are already accessible for all eligible youth in the local area. If an activity is not funded with WIA title I funds, the local area must ensure that those activities are closely connected and coordinated with the WIA system. Ongoing relationships should be established with providers of non-WIA funded activities either though case management, memorandums of understanding, or some other vehicle as local program operators are still responsible for obtaining performance outcomes for all WIA participants. In conjunction with the Youth Councils, the local areas should identify the extent to which the ten program elements are available and/or already being provided in the local area through a combination of resource mapping, competitive selection of providers (including sole source justification in rare circumstances), or through community partnerships. 041b061a72