# Presentation: 515291

##  Job Corps Annual Leadership Summit November 6, 2006           

-  **Job Corps Annual ****Leadership Summit**** *****November 6, 2006***

##  The STARS Initiative

**STARS (Speakers, Tutors, Achievement, Retention, and Success)**
**The STARS Initiative was developed to advance the National Director’s 21****st**** Century Vision for Job Corps.**
**The STARS Initiative cuts across all nine goals to achieve Job Corps’ new vision.  In particular:**
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**Goal 2 - Enhancing on-center student services to help support new initiatives including STARS**
**Goal 5 -Strengthening linkages with education and workforce training partners such as high schools and community colleges**

## Job Corps Student Outcomes

**17% remain on center for less than 60 days**
**24% remain on center for less than 90 days**
**26% hold a GED/HSD at entry**
**30% attain a GED/HSD at Job Corps**
**60% graduate from Job Corps**

## STARS System Model

**Serve as Role Models/**
**Motivators**

**Provide Academic**
**Support and Guidance**

**Provide Assistance and support for personal, social, and workplace success**
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##     Speakers Component

**STARS Speakers motivate and inspire students through their presentations by:**
**Encouraging students to believe in themselves**
**Affirming students’ capacity for great successes**
**Challenging students to achieve at higher levels**

## Speakers Component

**Two levels of Speakers:  National and Local**
**National speakers are high profile individuals who have a unique success story and achievement ethic to share.  They  offer students lessons learned and a road map for success.**
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**Local speakers foster, enhance, and strengthen linkages between Job Corps and the surrounding community.**
**Follow-up activities reinforce messages and provide students the opportunity to reflect on and apply lessons learned.**

## Tutors Component

**Tutors provide enrichment by:**
**Bringing skills in reading, math, and science**
**Providing encouragement and giving positive feedback**
**Working one-on-one and in groups to increase academic performance**
**Supporting Career Success Standards (CSS)**
**Committing to tutor students for nine months**
**Tutors are matched with students by:**
**Personal preference**
**Temperament**
**Life experiences and interests**

## Mentors Component

**Mentors provide support for overall student development by:**
**Providing encouragement to stay in the program**
**Supporting students in their attainment of CSS **
**Guiding students in personal and professional development**
**Motivating students to stay focused on their goals**
**Committing to mentor students for nine months**
**Mentors are matched with students by:**
**Personal preference**
**Temperament**
**Life experiences and interests**

## Recruitment of Tutors and Mentors

**Some of the criteria used to recruit tutors and mentors include:**
**Ability to provide academic assistance and advice to students **
**Familiarity with issues impacting learning for students with vocational, workplace, and personal challenges**
**Comfortable serving as a role model**
**Ability to relate to Job Corps students**

## STARS Pilot Centers 

| REGION | CENTERS |
| --- | --- |
| Boston | Oneonta – Oneonta, New York
Exeter – Providence, Rhode Island |
| Philadelphia | Whitney Young – Simpsonville, Kentucky
Old Dominion – Monroe, Virginia
Woodland – Laurel, Maryland |
| Atlanta | Batesville – Batesville, Mississippi
Homestead – Homestead, Florida |
| Dallas | Little Rock – Little Rock, Arkansas
Talking Leaves, Tahlequah, Oklahoma |
| Chicago | Atterbury – Edinburgh, Indiana
Gerald R. Ford – Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| San Francisco | Centennial – Nampa, Idaho
Treasure Island – San Francisco, California |

## Initiative Implementation

**Currently, STARS implementation is a partnership between the following organizations:**
**Ancon - Administration**
**Decision Information Resources (DIR) - Evaluation**
**Humanitas – Web Site Development**
**McNeely, Pigott & Fox – Communications/Outreach**

## What STARS Looks Like on Center

**Each Pilot Center has a STARS Coordinator responsible for:**
**Speaker, tutor, and mentor recruitment**
**Training volunteers**
**Orienting students to STARS Initiative**
**Facilitating mentor and tutor matches**
**Preparing center staff for implementation**
**STARS Coordinators received initial training and participate in ongoing training to ensure program success.**
**STARS is a collaborative effort including Center Directors, Instructors, and Business Community Liaisons (BCLs).**

## STARS Web Site

## STARS Web Site

**The STARS Web site will be available to the Job Corps community and the public.**
**STARS staff and other authorized Web site users will be able to:**
**Update an Events Calendar**
**Document STARS outcomes**
**Locate/book speakers**
**Advertise for tutors/mentors**
**Monitor STARS activity**
**Maintain speakers bios**
**View STARS photo gallery**
**Share best practices**

## STARS Web Site

** ****The public will be able to:**
**Learn more about STARS**
**Learn How to Get Involved with STARS!**
**Access STARS FAQs**
**View STARS Calendar**
**View STARS Photo Gallery**
**STARS will go live at http://jccdrc.jobcorps.gov/STARS/**

## STARS Timeline

**August 24, 2006****	****	****Speaker Program Commencement**
**September 21, 2006 ****	****	****STARS Kick-Off Event**
**October 2, 2006****	****	****Full Pilot Initiated**
**April 2007****	****	****	****STARS Pilot Implementation Report**
**June 2007****	****	****	****STARS Initiative Roll-Out Plan Released**

## STARS Impact on Job Corps

**The STARS Initiative will:**
**Advance the National Director’s Nine Goals**
**Increase retention, academic achievement, and graduation for Job Corps students**
**Expand and strengthen partnerships with business and community leaders nationwide**
**Capitalize on community resources to assist Job Corps students to succeed in the 21****st**** century workplace**

## Questions and Answers