but I do want to introduce myself my
name is Sheree all of us and I am the
youth services league for tcsg so if I
haven't met you personally and you're a
director in the room or work for one in
the local areas I would love to connect
with you after the panel and today we
really wanted to get some get you guys
together to really go and dive deep dive
into some of the best practices for the
whites program and so the objective
really for this session is really to
identify best practices for the work
experience program so by show hands how
many have never heard of the work
experience program so either you're a
business I have some colleagues in here
that are gonna make this session
difficult for me but we'll move past
that so everyone in the room has worked
with work experience I rector okay great
so I won't really dive in so I kind of
had the policy piece just in case we
have business or some of our sector
partners in here that need it to go over
the policy part of the work experience
yeah you know so we owe defines the work
experience program is really a plan
structure learning experience that takes
place in the work place for a limited of
time and a requirement of that is to
have the academic piece so the education
piece so that can take place
simultaneously or
afterwards sink we chole after the work
experience program so kind of getting
that hands-on so for instance if their
work experience program is in the
hospital though one hands training piece
may be learning about
interviewing or maybe learning more
about customer service in a hospital so
there's kind of a two piece part to that
and that for all of our local areas the
spinning of that is 20% of their you
funding and so we all has now switched
that focus really on that work
experience piece that's required so I'm
going to go ahead and let my panel
introduce themselves talk a lot about
their recruitment process for their
youth and then their overview of some of
their best practices that they have at
their local area and again I have some
structured questions here but I really
want some of the directors and some of
you guys in the audience to be engaging
and let us know what you're doing in
your local area as well so we can kind
of have that dialogue so I start and I'm
Stephanie Matthews I'm the deputy
Workforce Development Director for
WorkSource Three Rivers so I've been in
this development the workforce develop
or for a good ten years at this point
and it's been quite interesting I will
say I started off in the U program and
I've kind of landed myself here how long
I'll be here who knows but it seems to
be a good fit for me so I'm a retired
here so just to kind of talk about our
program a little bit the recruitment
process so what we're looking at
recruiting youth in our area is being