Training Interns & Partnering for Success (TIPS) |
What is TIPS?TIPS provides youth with an opportunity to learn pre-employment skills, participate in an internship with a local business, earn high school credit, and potentially gain paid employment. In the classroom, instructors utilize practical learning activities to prepare students for work while encouraging them to explore their individual abilities and interests. Students are then matched with employers that can offer them a meaningful internship experience. Such internships provide real work experiences that go outside the boundaries of the conventional classroom. The goals of the program are to enable students to identify their own interests, make the connection to a potential career field, and learn more about themselves in a real work environment. How does TIPS work?TIPS involves a 20-hour pre-employment skills class that includes interactive student activities, site visits with businesses, and classroom presentations by employers. Students learn about 21st century job skills to prepare for an internship that they help set up. The TIPS Curriculum is linked to the VT Framework of Standards enabling students to receive academic credit designated by their school. The second phase of the program is a 40-hour internship with a local business where students are able to practice the skills talked about in the classroom. Many students that successfully complete the class and internship are offered paid employment at their internship site. However, this is not guaranteed. Internship Coordinators track and support students throughout the program and provide job placement assistance when needed. Where is TIPS? Why is TIPS important?TIPS bridges the gap between students, businesses, schools, and the community. Students are able to develop skills in a supported internship environment. These skills support the workforce needs of Vermont and help students succeed. Employers develop the workforce they demand and Vermonters gain access to career opportunities they desire. How do I get involved?Businesses: Employers can offer a meaningful and supported internship to a student with the intent to hire if the student is successful. All employers can interview the student prior to offering the internship. Schools: Schools can host the TIPS program at their school and have a school staff champion the pre-employment skills class and help recruit internship placements. Teachers and Guidance Counselors can also indentify and recommend potential students for the program. Students: Youth can participate in the program if aged 16 or older. Both in-school and out-of-school (high school completion students) youth are able to participate in the program. Contact Linking Learning to Life or your Guidance Counselor if you are interest in participating in TIPS. For more information, contact: TIPS is a program supported in part by Vermont Next Generation Workforce Development/Student Internship funds as well as federal funds through the Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention. |
 Chip Thibault is the HR Director at Med Associates in St. Albans. He has taken on 8 interns through the Franklin County TIPS program over the past 4 years. Watch this video to learn why TIPS works for them!
TIPS 2009 VIDEO:  Want to hear about TIPS from past students? What about the experiences from our businesses that hosted interns? Or the schools that partnered with LLL to make the program happen? RESOURCES
|
.png)
