Description:
JEVS Human Services (JEVS) will support the District’s summer programming for high school students by coordinating internships for up to 200 CTE students. Work experiences are a critical first introduction to the world of work. The District, through the District's Internship Program, endeavors to provide students with meaningful work-based learning and academic enrichment experiences that promote self-efficacy, connect youth to caring adults, and offer the opportunity to build transferable skills required to secure and sustain employment. The Internship Program is an extension of the CTE curriculum that students learn throughout the school year. This opportunity allows students to receive real-life hands-on experiences that cannot be learned in the classroom. The experience will permit students to utilize the content of their classroom curriculum in a practical setting. These opportunities include positions in District buildings with District personnel, local businesses, and academic enrichment/industry certification programs.
C2L-PHL or Career Connected Learning PHL is the new initiative for work-based learning and career exploration for Philadelphia residents ages 12-24. This collaboration between the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Children and Families (“City”, Philadelphia Works (“PhilaWorks”), and the District provides paid summer and school-year work-based learning experiences. Career connected learning is an evidence- based strategy that is rooted in the idea that the best way for youth to build the skills essential for a successful career is through direct, hands-on experience connected to rigorous classroom learning and reflection. C2L-PHL activities are offered along a continuum: Awareness, Preparation, and Launch. Philadelphia’s C2L-PHL programs are designed to provide comprehensive support along three interrelated objectives:
1. Youth are given access and experiences to explore different career paths and fields.
2. Youth are equipped with the tools and skills they need to explore, set, and achieve career goals.
3. Youth know how to identify and utilize their strengths and passions to inform career decisions.
Programming is designed to meet Act 158 graduation requirements, especially for students graduating through Pathway 5. JEVS will work with the District to measure and report activities timely so students get credit toward graduation requirements as needed.
JEVS Human Services has been identified as the fiscal and contracting Intermediary through a competitive and shared procurement process by the City and PhilaWorks. As the procured Intermediary for C2L-PHL, JEVS is charged to operationalize C2L-PHL.
Career & Technical Education (CTE)
The District’s 2024 Summer Internship Program endeavors to provide students with meaningful work-based learning and academic enrichment experiences that promote self-efficacy, connects youth to caring adults and offers the opportunity to build the transferable skills required to secure and sustain employment. JEVS Human Services will support the successful implementation and execution of the payment of all additional student wages, payroll management, and support for the program. JEVS, as a wage intermediary organization for the District, will utilize the vast majority of the funds in this contract to directly pay student wages and stipends. JEVS will charge only a small percentage (not to exceed 12% of the total contract amount) for intermediary services & costs, such as payroll management, program monitoring, outreach and recruitment, training and technical assistance and data collection. The remaining funds of the total contract amount will pass through JEVS and go directly to the students in the form of wages or stipends for participating in internships or academic enrichment programs.
JEVS, as an intermediary organization for the District, will utilize the majority of the funds in this contract to directly pay student stipends. This work is connected to the District’s plan to achieve Guardrail 2 - Enriching and well-rounded School Experiences. Along with the College & Career Goal: Every student graduates ready for college and careers and Goal 5: The percentage of Career and Technical Education (CTE) students who pass an industry standards-based competency assessment by the end of their12th grade year will grow from 49.9% in August 2019 to 80.0% in August 2026. The success of this contract will be measured by the percentage of eligible students who take and pass the NOCTI exam, the number of certifications received, along with the percentage of CTE students who have a documented job placement and/or post-secondary opportunity.