Youth Employment Partnerships

Workforce Solutions South Plain hosts a quarterly Youth Advisory Council meeting to encourage collaborative efforts across the South Plains area. Workforce Solutions partners with community colleges and universities in the South Plains area to establish employer driven work skills initiatives, establishing pathways that workforce programs can utilize to connect out-of-school youth and youth at-risk of dropping out of school, to post-secondary educational opportunities, especially in community and technical colleges.

Youth Advisory Council & Youth Employment Partnerships include:

• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Region 17
• Texas Tech University
• Texas Department of Family and Protective Services – Transition Centers
• Lubbock Boys and Girls Club
• Family Promise of Lubbock
• Managed Care Center
• South Plains Food Bank
• Job Corps