Career Navigation

A Career Development Training Program for Youth

Overview

Career Navigators (CN) are responsible for providing a foundation of life skills, career development, and workforce training. They support all career exploration through the coordination of and implementation of a variety of activities throughout residential and community settings. Career Navigators will build on opportunities and experiences as youth progress through services, including job shadowing, on-the-job training, certification opportunities, and other real-world exposure where you can develop, apply, and demonstrate skill development based on the youth’s career plan to lead to successful market employment.

For more information, please contact Kyle Oliveira at [email protected]

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Impact Numbers

Youth Participated in FY21
0
Of Them Received an Employment Experience
0

Resources

  • Industry and Occupation, Programs

Workforce Training Fund Program (WTFP) Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2024

The enabling legislation for the Workforce Training Fund (Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 29 Section 2RR) calls for a report to be filed with the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development and the House and Senate Ways and Means Committees, of each year. The report highlights grants made during the previous fiscal year together with recommendations and additional information as considered appropriate. The report must also include information concerning the collection of the workforce training contributions for the previous calendar year including (i) the amount collected in each quarter and the total amount collected for the calendar year; (ii) the total number of employers that contributed to the fund and the total number of employees employed by that group of employers; and (iii) the contribution rate.
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  • Industry and Occupation

Career Technical Initiative (CTI) Annual Report 2024

The Career Technical Initiative (CTI) has been a welcomed training model to stimulate talent pipelines and fuel innovation for technical roles in manufacturing and construction/skilled trades. The program provides Massachusetts residents who are unemployed or underemployed with training opportunities by using the state’s existing resources at vocational high schools, while simultaneously helping businesses grow by increasing the number of skilled workers able to be employed in trade and construction jobs.
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  • Industry and Occupation, Research & Evaluation

2024 Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund (WCTF) Annual Report

WCTF grants expand training capacity to upskill new workers and address employers’ hiring needs across a broad range of occupations within industries such as healthcare, IT, transportation, and hospitality.

The enabling legislation for WCTF (Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 29 Section 2WWW) calls for a report to be filed annually with the Secretary of Administration and Finance, the House and Senate Committees on Ways and Means, and the Joint Committees on Community Development and Small Business, Education, Economic Development and Emerging Technologies, Labor and Workforce Development, and Public Health. The report must include the number of educational and eligible service providers receiving grants and participants receiving services and placed in employment, as well as the salary and benefits that participants receive after placement, the cost per participant, and job retention or promotion rates for the year after training ends.

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