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MentorABILITY
A Wyoming BLN Model of Revenue Generation for your Consideration
Presented by:
Lynn Trew Kirkbride WBLN VP Business Development
MentorABILITY:
A New Revenue Stream for your BLN?
The Need for a Diverse Portfolio in times of shrinking funding…
This is our time to dig in and get creative!
The WBLN Employer Challenge:
“GROW THE TALENT”
An innovative program assisting youth with disabilities through your local school district
Youth ages 14 -21 transitioning from High school to the World of Work
Utilizing employer mentors from your BLN to prepare students for employment “growing the talent”
What is Wyoming’s MentorABILITY?
BLN’s need new sources of revenue
Engages your BLN businesses in meaningful activities
Can pump new life into your BLN
A non-threatening way to involve new businesses that are skeptical
The Business Case for MA
Employers have access to potential job candidates
Employer Mentors: Businesses like investing in youth! BIG Return on Investment! New value of the BLN
VR partners love it: an overlooked population
Best disability awareness exercise ever!
The Business Case for MA (cont.)
All contracts are individually negotiated with each school since funds are locally controlled
Modest contracts of $10,000- $28,000 add up
Each contract is customized to the transition needs of that school
Fee for Service Contracts
Services are NOT negotiated by the numbers of students served (of which the BLN has no control)
What distinguishes our services from providers is our EMPLOYER NETWORK
Fee for Service Contracts (cont.)
Transition services are limited and inconsistent from district to district- MA can fill in the gap
MA can be a “coordinated set of activities” for districts to write into their IEP’s
Great concern among districts over federal IDEA indictors 13 and 14- MA helps with these post secondary outcomes
The school picks what they need from a menu of services- augments their services
Selling it to a School District:A Public Partnership
National data states that the number #1 predictor of vocational success is a work experience prior to graduation from high school
Your staff is paid and supervised by you not the school
Gets students hooked into adult VR services prior to graduation
VR likes it because students often have chosen an industry sector to focus their career
Selling it to Schools (cont.)
Access to an existing network of employers (BLN)
BLN Employer mentors can offer employability skills from the real world of business
Helps students build an employer network- which leads to jobs!
Selling it to Schools (cont.)
World of Work Class Examples:Dress for SuccessJob Retention StrategiesPersonalities and CareersMock InterviewsCareers in the 21st CenturyPersonal FinancesEmpowerment and DisclosureNetworking
MentorABILITY Services are customized to the needs of that district
Job Site Tours
Career Resource EXPO participation
Summer employment placement
Career Planning
MentorABILITY Services (cont.)
One on One Mentoring
Mentoring Day Luncheon/Awards Events
Graduation Day/Portfolios
Leadership Development: Student Advisory Council
“Why change only one life when you can change two?”
MentorABILITY Services (cont.)
Meet David:
Meet Aaron:
Meet Alex:
Increased pressure on districts to have students meet academic criteria before outside involvement
Longer testing of PAWS (Jan. and March) so less time for involvement
Concern over students leaving school grounds (transportation)
Getting districts to take a chance on something new in a time of shortfall
Letting you into their system (ivory tower syndrome)
Challenges:
The Wyoming Business Leadership Network
yourbln.com
Lynn Trew [email protected]
(307) 631-0894
Wanda [email protected]
(307)783-6302
Contact:
Thanks for Coming!!!!