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Expanding contact with local small and larger businesses to identify job opportunities <br />through direct action and enhancing WIB membership with employers, human resource <br />professionals, and industry representative from the growing economic segments; <br />• Establishing more programs at community colleges for new immigrants and others, <br />especially disconnected youth, on pre -job seeking and job advancement social and <br />"soft" skills; <br />• Conducting annual strategy sessions to review progress, measure program <br />effectiveness, review workforce needs and gaps, plan for the near and longer term, and <br />recommend changes in strategic and tactical emphasis to the relevant agencies. <br />Slwrr mart': How the Youth Program Meets State Standards <br />This Section's discussion shows that it has a strong institutional base to build on for youth <br />programs, plus strategies to expand them and better target the youth population. Specifically, <br />it has shown that: <br />• The WIB and WORK Center have special sensitivity to creating both short term <br />partnerships and longterm plans for reducing the drop -out rate. <br />• The WIB has taken a similar tack in creating concrete plans for re- engaging those who <br />have left the educational system or been left behind by it, or who have been <br />disconnected from work itself. <br />• The WIB has already engaged employers, educators, and social service providers to help <br />youth understand career pathway options and to provide access to those options. It <br />plans to expand those activities and has suggested specific ways in which it intends to <br />do so. <br />• The WIB has gone beyond encouraging youth to acquire post- secondary degrees and <br />other credentials. It has pegged its training activities to both priority and traditional <br />economic sectors and work opportunities. <br />54 <br />19F -62 <br />