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A. Assist youth to gain career awareness, make career decisions and plans; and understand market needs, trends, and opportunities; B. Assist youth in making and implementing informed educational and occupational choices; C. Aid youth to develop career options with attention to surmounting gender, race, ethnic, disability, language, or socioeconomic impediments to career options and encouraging careers in non - traditional employment, and D. Orientation to skills and knowledge specific to career path and /or industry, based on SCANS career related learning standards and industry- specific skills, if relevant. CAREER RELATED MENTORING (YOUTH): An employee or other individual, approved by the employer at a worksite, who possesses the skills and knowledge to be mastered by a student; who provides the student with instruction and challenges the student to perform well; works in consultation with program staff, classroom teachers and the employer as appropriate. CASE MANAGEMENT: The provision of a client- oriented approach in the delivery of services, designed to: A. Prepare and coordinate comprehensive employment plans, such as service strategies, for participants to ensure access to necessary Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Activities and support services, using, where flexible, computer -based technologies; and B. To provide job and career counseling during program participation and afterjob placement. C. Case Managers and youth work together in a documented, goal oriented, participant- centered program that extends from recruitment through follow -up /retention. The case manager motivates and coordinates services and information to prepare participants for post- secondary educational opportunities, provides linkages between academic and occupational learning, and /or preparation for unsubsidized employment /training opportunities, as appropriate. CERTIFICATE: A certificate is awarded in recognition of an individual's attainment of measurable technical or occupational skills necessary to gain employment or advance within an occupation. These technical or occupational skills are based on standards developed or endorsed by employers. Certificates awarded by workforce investment boards are not included in this definition. Work readiness certificates are also not included in this definition. A certificate is awarded in recognition of an individual's attainment of technical or occupational skills by: • A state educational agency or a state agency responsible for administering vocational and technical education within a state. • An institution of higher education described in Section 102 of the Higher Education Act (20 USC 1002) that is qualified to participate in the student financial assistance programs authorized by Title IV of that Act. This includes community colleges, proprietary schools, and all other institutions of higher education that are eligible to participate in federal student aid programs. 38 19D-42