This presentation from the OECD Disrupted Futures 2023: International lessons on how schools can best equip students for their working lives conference looks at Enabling effective transitions for all youth “In Motion and Momentum+: A transformative approach to career development programming for under-represented groups most distant from the labour market”. Presented by Sareena Hopkins and Donnalee Bell. Discover the videos and other sessions from the OECD Disrupted Futures 2023 conference at https://www.oecd.org/education/career-readiness/conferences-webinars/disrupted-futures-2023.htm Find out more about our work on Career Readiness https://www.oecd.org/education/career-readiness/

1. A Preventative Approach to
Career Development
by Sareena Hopkins and Donnalee Bell
Created and powered by the Canadian
Career Development Foundation

2. When to Loosen the Purse Strings
• Paper: 2012 Transitioning Graduates to Work:
Improving Labour Market Success of Poorly
Integrated New Entrants (PINEs) in Canada
• Focus on:
• Early Interventions
• Post-Graduation Interventions (Reactive)
• Demand-side Interventions
• Interventions Specific to Under-represented Groups
• When resources are tight, where do we focus?

3. The Original Need:
The IM&M+ Backstory
• Gap in employment
services – focus on
jobs and training but
not the employability
influencers that
support career
development

4. And Now for Something
Completely Different
• IM&M+ is participant-centred and
strength-based.
• Goals and desired outcomes are
based on the participant’s chosen
next step… which may or may not
be a job or training
• Rather than teaching about self-
esteem, confidence, personal
control, skill development and
motivation, the program provides
opportunities for participants to
experience success, pride, respect,
connection, and achievement This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC

6. Transformative Impact:
An Evidence-Informed Practice
• New Brunswick (Province-wide
since 2016; Annual Evaluations)
• Ontario Centre for Workforce
Innovation – 3 pilot sites in
Eastern Ontario
• Future Skills Centre – 2020-2022
– Impact Design 2 Cohorts, 6
provinces, 25 Delivery Agents, 27
Sites (Report in August 2022)
• Future Skills Centre –2021-2023
Randomized Controlled Trial, 3
Cohorts, 5 provinces, 14 Delivery
Agents, 14 Sites (Report August
2023)

7. Program Impacts
• Breaks costly cycles of dependence on
social assistance
• Increases employability among those most
distant from the labour market
• Significantly increases career goal clarity
and perceived ability to overcome barriers
to career goals
• Significantly improves psycho-social health
outcomes and foundational career management
skills
• Participants are highly satisfied, say it
is useful and recommend it to others
• Readily expands to new regions, populations
and delivery modes with only minor
adaptations

8. Moving from
Reaction to
Prevention
• Facilitators of the
program see the need
for a preventative
approach using IM&M+
with youth
• IM&M+ has already been
granted high school
course equivalencies
in 3 provinces
• Can we use IM&M+ to
help re-engage youth?

9. Thank you!
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Career Development Foundation