Essential Skills
Connections with community organizations can open doors to resources, social support, mentorship, and job and internship opportunities, as well as provide students with leadership skills and impactful community involvement.
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Resources for Practitioners
Learn about parent engagement strategies educators can use to help improve students' postsecondary outcomes.
Learn more about peer connections and the power of peer social capital. In addition, identify useful strategies on how to promote peer connections.
Learn about this research-based messaging guide for youth advocates working across various sectors (K-12, Higher Ed, Career Navigation, and Youth Development) who want to communicate the value of social capital and build support for programs and interventions that help young people develop.
Check out this toolkit on designing pathways and learn more about how youth form their occupational identities. Equitable Futures also provides research informed tools and resources on youth occupational identity formation.
Read more about the Developmental Relationships Framework drawn from research and the experiences shared by young people. Through this framework, young people can discover who they are, cultivate the abilities needed for them to shape their own lives, and learning how to engage with and contribute to the world around them.
Explore the Kentucky Department of Education's ILP Rubric
Resources and Special Notes regarding the ILP
How to express the importance of the ILP to stakeholders
Communicating the Value and Promise of Individual Learning Plans
Resources for Students and Families
Check out this social network for students to connect with participating colleges and universities.
