Opportunity Youth Partnership, Santa Clara County, CA

Opportunity Youth Partnership Partners Joe Herrity Opportunity Youth Partnership Role: Project Page Administrator SEE ALL Are you part of this initiative? LOGIN TO CONNECT TO THIS INITIATIVE Not a part of this initiative, but want to show support? LOGIN TO FOLLOW THIS INITIATIVE About this Initiative LOCATION: San Jose, California, United States of America (the), Far West (AK, CA, HI, NV, OR, WA) YEAR STARTED: 2013 SOCIAL ISSUE: Opportunity Youth / Disconnected Youth INITIATIVE STAGE: Organizing for Impact INITIATIVE PURPOSE AND GOALS: The Opportunity Youth Partnership (OYP) is aimed at improving education and employment outcomes in Santa Clara County. Specifically, we are working to decrease the dropout rate by 10% and increase the youth empolyment rate by 10%. We believe we can achieve this by cutting the number of Opportunity Youth in Santa Clara County in half by 2025. The OYP will work towards this vision using a collective impact approach that engages a robust, multi-sector collaborative that brings together the community-based organizations, government systems, and employers to build reliable, repeatable, and transparent pathways to and through post-secondary education/training. INITIATIVE WEBSITE: http://www.sccoyp.org HideCollective Impact Elements in Place Common Agenda Continuous Communication Shared Measurement Backbone Support HideBackbone Support ORGANIZATIONS SERVING IN THE BACKBONE ROLE Kids in Common BACKBONE STRUCTURE Kids in Common is a program of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte. Kids in Common was once an independent nonprofit, but in order to find efficiences for its samll staff, it joined with Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, which now provides backend support and administrative functions. HideMeasures of Success All OYP parnter CBOs (15) have agreed to and are tracking two sets of five measures. Common Indiactors - Education-to-Career Progress Diploma/GED attainment Postsecondary enrollment Attaining early work or internships Completing postsecondary Finding entry-level employment in career field Self-Sufficiency Indicators - all tracked on a five point scale: 1 = in crisis, 3 = minimum level of safety and stability, 5 = thriving Income Education Food security Housing Healthcare access HideCommunity Engagement and Advancing Equity COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES We have a Youth Voice Committee that meets monthly. However, we do not feel we are engaging this group as effectively as we need to be, and not making effective use of their availability for input. HideInitiative Partners and Governance CONTRIBUTING ORGANIZATIONS 15 community based organizations form our core partners. The Santa Clara County Probation department and Social Services Agency are strong partners and members of our Executive Committee. We have an emerging relationships with the Chamber of Commerce. Our Leadership Council (high level advisory board) includes critical leadeers of county systems, secondary and postsecondary education, and philanthropy. SECTORS ENGAGED Nonprofit Philanthropic Funders Public Sector Business Sector Broader Community/People with Lived Experience INITIATIVE GOVERNANCE We have three main bodies. Leadership Council = high level advisory board Executive Committee = management team, providing overal direction and support to the backbone Design, Implementation, and Services Committee = this is the implementation group. They had taskforces during the planning year, and are now transitioning to work groups to make use of data collection results to start driving specific actions. Discussions