Hutchinson. Thank you everybody for joining us today how we can better serve our nations greatest and that is the young people. We have a really difficult transition and challenge we cannot afford either as a society or and economy to leave any young people behind so as many as 5 million young people between the ages of 16 and 24 are currently not enrolled in Educational Programs or participating in the workforce. I believe very strongly as governor we have a responsibility to do everything we can to reach the youth and give them avenues of opportunity to reconnect and engage them with continuing education and in a lot of cases of course there are many barriers to making that happen including economic mobility and providing them with the opportunity for their future. Some of the barriers include help homelessness violence in poor health how outcomes in the criminal Justice System. We are tackling these barriers one by one and a great example is the bill that i signed literally just this week and it changes the way to prevention and rehabilitation and as we all know you could spend time in adult prison youre more likely to reoffend those Racial Disparities are more pervasive in the criminal Justice System and we can see this play out in hundreds of cases and of course their families as well. So that data really informed our path moving forward by changing sentencing guidelines for youth offenders we can be made safer and have the opportunity to make a turnaround in their lives. The guest today will help explore a number of these solutions with a 5 million young people to provide what strategies to replicate. Now i turn over to governor hutchinson. Thank you Governor Brown for your leadership those are good illustrations of progress that can be made and arkansas many of those states that are represented by those governors here have a low Unemployment Rate three. 5 percent we went anybody disconnected to give them opportunity more today than at any time in terms of employment if we make those right decisions to make sure everybody has a connection we will introduce our panel sue but we are grateful for their leadership on this challenging issue that we face. When i became governor one of the areas of disconnect is the foster care children. In arkansas we had so many children in foster care we did not have foster homes for them. We had an extreme crisis and shortage we convene the Faithbased Community and Nonprofit Community called restore hope and as a result we have been able to increase foster care parent participation by 15 percent more parents to say we will join and help with their foster children. Children in foster care have also been recently reduced because of those initiatives putting 24 million into the foster care system for more caseworkers to take that ratio from 28 down 18. Seven for each caseworker. We had to make this progress to help the children be more connected and we worked at the Youth Services closing to institutions and moving those services to the community so they could handle access to Mental Health care and drug treatment counseling as well. One of the things that i believe if you want a disconnected youth to have the opportunity for ged but also there is a greater opportunity for a High School Diploma we passed a law that allowed an adult nontraditional students to get a High School Diploma so somebody might be a single mom with children can go back and get their High School Diploma and that has even better power so we have accomplished that to make sure that someone can get a High School Diploma regardless of their circumstances in life. So now we go into the panelist and today we have the pleasure to be joined by the executive director and director of Opportunity Youth forum and chief executive officer so first let me go through their background as an advocate for youth with experience in the Mental Health system now working in the field to promote and encourage the inclusion of a policy change of 11 Years Experience advocating for changes of Mental Health to improve the care options and treatment for those with Mental Health challenges. To manage the Opportunity Youth forum which is comprised of a network of two dozen urban and tribal communities seeking to scale multiple reconnection pathways to achieve Better Outcomes in education that are disconnected for education. Thank you for joining us and the chief executive officer a nonprofit that provides the unemployed who left School Without a High School Diploma pathway to education job in entrepreneurship and other opportunities leading productive livelihoods and community leadership. With that able turn things over for the challenges to learn your personal perspective. Thank you for this conversation and all of your interest for those who are disconnected. So to frame this opportunit opportunity, there is an opportunity for us to engage. Between the ages of 16 and 24 they are classified in the population of disconnected youth and to be clear that means they are not connected formally to education or opportunity or Employment Opportunity also require successful career building. There are advantages to focus on this population. This is a healthcare concern and an education concern and an Economic Development issue. At the expense of talking about this population i represent the National Youth driven organization dedicated to increasing leadership with people who are navigating the social system of Child Welfare and juvenile justice we believe to embolden these young people their stories of how services dont help them become successful by sharing it with policy members they are passionate for a Better Future for the next generation and they want to view that to be involved in decisions that shape their policies. We are working in an area we are interested in patient centered Health Care Delivery to be effective with no additional resources. So well put young people in the driver seat of their own care. As a young person who struggled with anxiety and depression in High School Years so when i stepped out into the adult world i found myself facing increasingly different difficult Mental Health challenges and i didnt know where to have those needs met found myself pregnant at 19 now i had to care for myself and our daughter. I was blessed to have services wrapped around me with credit to get back on my feet that are willing to work with me and given prenatal and postnatal care to help empower me to become a successful parent. My story is not as a young person there are those who cant access those services over what was successful and effective but hearing from another young person so these can create moving forward. Young people are so involved in creating opportunity for this population we have young people creating social peer based programs in communities that they have connection rather than isolation those that are working as experts with those block grant dollars directly to the community with those state agencies across the country young people are very interested to address what exist between the system and a specific example where the Mental Health system is responsible for care at age 18 or 21 years of age that on their birthday a young person is no longer eligible to have them be successful. So these are actively asking those policymakers to create a bridge between those children so to mix and match between those services for just a little bit longer with that connection to employment and adulthood. So they dont only have those that helping their peers is not new but that is an Restorative Justice within the Mental Health system the concept of a workforce the young person who successfully navigated the system can turn around assist another to navigate that system. Serving as an advocate and a confidant and as a role model there is hope for a successful future. We have a generation of young people who are permitted to create a stronger future than the strongest thing we can do is offer them a seat at the table that is where they will not be experiencing disconnection. Thank you. Thank you very much. I really appreciate you sharing your personal story and with your extraordinary leadership. It is an honor to be here thank you to the governors for this opportunity in addition to your leadership but going across the country for outcomes there are two key points that i want to underline so the first is how we frame this challenge so what the white House Counsel so the systems are disconnected not the young people when we talk to them about the families and their communities their optimism is palpable. And also in the policies and with that specific engagement in terms of reconnecting to education careers and also their communities that civil engagement. So very quickly to give you a sense of what we have been doing invested 28 communities across the country who were all in urban travel to make sure when we talk about advancing outcomes to document the way our native and Tribal Community has Better Outcomes. And that these have the secondary system, Justice System, foster care system local philanthropy along with elected leadership not just identification but solutions what they have talked about they can use that to a better outcome. Now k12 partnering and those young people obtaining secondary credentials. And that Civic Engagement as they continue to increase and benefit so with that in mind those that are tied to the values we believe that the apps on the absent Aspen Institute the way things are disconnected that is the result of the barriers that they face today. And it is critical and specifically gender equity that we would always talk about continuously why its critical young people know what works for them and to achieve impact so there are three points i want to make for states to continue to improve outcomes. The first we must continue to partner with employers not to improve just education but outcomes and second there are so many policy barriers to generate Better Outcomes thinking about the ways to offer a couple of ways not just the challenge but that opportunity that exists with that outcome. We know the bls that 6 million entry level jobs will be generated by 2020 we also know the issue of repayment we know annually the annual cost of 10 million to address those retention challenges so what the states can do there is an opportunity working realtime on upscale retention strategies for employers to partner with the local workforce to bring those practices getting to training enough scaling and retention so what that means not only connection to the certification but we have seen employers nationally to look at ways they can provide transportation or healthcare or the wraparound support that young people need to be successful. That is just one example. The other thing there is bipartisan support for these issues. It is critical resilience to work to expand Education Training program so the last thing i want to say is we know there are lots of different policy states can leverage with in particular Career Outcomes and that brings me to my point that we have to move together so recently the workforce opportunity this was specifically to access the trading education if necessary and if you can access this and with that population only three. 7 percent of young people even though 80 percent but only 67 percent can use these dollars. And with that population is. And then to access those employment dollars. One third of the workforce are these people. And then to figure out to bring the necessary for the young people of the past two years to have 195 million in revenue for us to use but again only 8 percent of those dollars are reaching the people where they live. So part of the work is to make sure we are partnering with states to support investments in Youth Program that bring them to the table and that is really important. The last thing on policy we know Education Matters and young people need secondary education but we also know to prepare for future jobs and automation they need to post secondary education so there are opportunities to expand that not only provide access to college but the expansion of power and at the state level to remove barriers because and when it comes to work so finally alternative ways to frame challenge the young people experience to innovate those solutions so if you dont know pleading work and Research JohnPowell Research in order to get the outcomes to improve benefits with that education level or healthcare for all of how we want to address the countrys challenges but we must target our strategies to meet those populations where they are in the foster care population so we can target the strategies to meet the needs of the population and how those can be supportive. Also Holding Equity at the center with the racial identities so we can have the strategy and approach of the last thing i will offer to continue to support cross sector collaboration the challenge to be comprehensive and the complexity of the issues we are working together. Part of what the states can do with the flexibility and waivers that allow the partners to come together to address these issues. And then to improve populations these are on the Ground Solutions to promote Better Outcomes thank you. You thank you very much we appreciate you highlighting the fact that erasure gender and now lgbtq equity to really meet the needs of all of our youth because they cant admit that i will turn that over thank you for being here today. Thank you Governor Brown and governor hutchinson grateful to have colleagues with the young people across the country for those opportunities with them i would like to share add to remarks to be sounded 41 years ago asking young people if you had support what would you do to improve the community and the young people said we would take back the abandoned buildings to rehab and a loan create Affordable Housing so the youth filled name comes from the effort of young people to improve their communities to make a difference and i love that element of youth. That being said there are 5 million disconnected or opportunity used in this country page 16 through 24 if they try to prioritize focusing on the two. 3 million so not all falls into the same category so we could have the most vulnerable or most disadvantaged but we try not to label them in that way and not just as it has been said but to offer opportunity to the world if their skills and intelligence can be unleashed but also to give them and an opportunity its amazing to experience to build that one program from that one in 1978 it was formally named and to address this issue we have now grown across the country and another 60 around the world so have a Global Movement to address this issue and learning from our work on International Side to do sharing of information of what we are doing here domestically to improve outcomes for young people. Our model is an apologetic and as all of you know and have heard today, young people do need these Wraparound Services are model has five core components focusing on education so as governor hutchinson said the diploma is coming more and more common and that is critically important. The second component is the career invocation on Workforce Development training that is now in multiple careers beyond construction. To have our people with the leaders to have the voice and have the solution to make a difference in their communities and with their life skills component so we are extremely grateful for the support of the c and tf and those may be in the audience today that this is a critically important point so for generations, focusing on these families and communities are the recipients or beneficiaries for service. So the young people are the providers of service to their community and at the and receive an education award. And could not imagine the possibility of going to college. And are adaptable all over the world focusing on the Opioid Epidemic and focusing on Human Trafficking that we discussed this morning some of these programs, 100 percent come from students. So we are addressing all the social challenges that you are addressing across the country. And this is very personal for me. I made a terrible decision that resulted in prosecution. I spent years in prison for my crime. Although im not a graduate of ai am an example of the power of youth will. Youth build is a Second Chance program. A Second Chance for homeless young people, young people who have had substance misuse challenges coming on people who have dropped out of school, young people who have suffered in poverty and trauma and experienced violence of all kinds. But youth build is abto create the next greatest version of themselves with this comprehensive model and the supportive adults. As an amazing experience that can be for young people, im humbled to say im the first formerly incarcerated ceo of a nonprofit with a Global Mission [applause] however, i think that means little if the young people of youth build dont believe that anything is possible for them with adult support and with programs like youth build and if society doesnt believe in genuine Second Chances. Im grateful for the opportunity to be a part of the youth build Movement Across the world thats impacting young people and im excited to share more about the ways we are working with governors and states to build coalitions and collaboratives throughout the country to create this network and web of powerful experiences for young people to transform their lives. Thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] i know that governor hutchinson and i are dying to ask you all millions of questions but we have a group of governors here that we want to have participate as well. Im going to turn it over to governor evers from wisconsin. Thanks for joining us today. Thanks a lot. What a great panel. Holy smokes. Holy smokes is right. Thank you both governors for your leadership and of course nga for doing this. Im a 42 year veteran of education in the state of wisconsin. And actually disconnected youth, i hate to put it in this fashion but when i was a High School Principal the people that hung out in smokers corner where the disconnected youth and i spent as much time learning from them as possible. Because i believe that whats best for kids is best for our state and best for our country. Im going to talk about two things. One that we been very successful at, one that frankly is troubling beyond belief. Success is on prevention side. Our state has invested on a bipartisan basis significant resources for fouryearold kindergarten. And a handful of holdouts. We believe those are wise investments, in fact, it continues to grow every single year. In turn we also know and you follow us in the room know that when children, especially little kids are exposed to extreme poverty the trauma that is connected with that is significant. Birth to three programming is obviously important and i think we are working hard to make sure that every little kid had the opportunity and we are getting. Additionally, one of the Success Stories is we been able to double the Mental Health funding for Behavioral Health for our elementary and secondary kids. And our littlest kids too because its not that everybody every kid that has Mental Health issues will become disconnected. But it certainly is a precursor for a lot of children. In addition the issue of special education which we been able to fund at a higher level on a bipartisan basis. Prevention is important, connecting the dots is important. The area that keeps me awake at night more than probably anything else is the issue of juvenile Justice Reform. Just as any Justice Reform is also important but i had the opportunity my first week in office visiting our juvenile prison and thats what it is northern wisconsin. It was a controversial piece for many years. The young people there and adults that ran it were at war with each other. I came away with lots of ideas but most important thing is i came away with these young people who many of them have done significantly bad things they are still kids. So our state is kind of purging ourselves of this notion that we need to punish and moving them people back into their hometowns into the neighborhoods and getting the Mental Health treatment they deserve. Getting the Second Chance you talk about. I think even though its a small and but a very small ab very important small and because retribution has little place in our world. Especially those caught up into the Justice System need to make sure they have the Rehabilitation Services and Mental Health services they need and im looking forward to so far having bipartisan support for that effort. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for so eloquently walking through what keeps you up at night. These are also the things that keep me up at night as well. I wanted to start with your lifting up universal prek as part of the prevention strategy and part of what i want to offer up is what we see nationally and i think many people abthe reason why universal prek is so important because what we know is that young adults on the margin of trying to reconnect education, trying to really get on a Second Chance to career outcome not only do they need adequate childcare they also need their child to receive the highest quality education because what we know from research is that the Early Childhood education puts them on the path to be able to disrupt multigenerational poverty. I would argue its the coupling of not only making prek universal available but how programs are able to marry that with the type of ged programming states have for older adults and completion diploma plans they have as well and Even Community colleges have a to play in trying to couple both access to universal prek for young people while helping the parents also get back on to attaining secondary credential in making connections for the post secondary piece because together when youre really looking at how new generations more than one generation off the top of poverty it has the greatest opportunity to be successful and impactful so thats one. The other thing i wanted to pick up on that you talked about was the role that trauma place. I think limiting outcomes for young adults especially. One of the things we have also seen nationally be very effective and this gets back to how we frame the challenges our young people face is thinking how we move from trauma informed to Healing Center practices and approaches. What i mean . What i mean is that when you talk to young people who have experienced a significant trauma who have more than one or two aces in their life, what young people say is that the truth is is im so bigger than the trauma experience and when i have this opportunity to get back onto a meaningful path an opportunity for a Second Chance opportunity, which both of my panelists so eloquently spoke to, that the impact on middle to have is so much greater. That feeling centered frame is really about both the healing and help that young people need to civic activation and participation that young people are able to tap into and and act as they can make progress in the human journey. I really want to speak to this juvenile justice piece. I started my career actually teaching in the Justice System for the state of massachusetts specifically in boston. If you are an africanamerican male without a High School Credential you are 68 percent more likely to end up in the Justice System. This is not jail im talking about prison, federal prison. That means that 70 more likely without High School Education to end up in our countrys prison system. What is that mean . That means that we have opportunities to expand things like Health Funding but it also means that the Restorative Justice practices are so critical. He talked about retribution. Not only do i want to be able to amend what happened for this person who may have experienced harm but Restorative Justice practices for that person and for that persons family as well and the last thing we worked on a lot of our alternatives to incarceration. We heard some of this from the governors as well but looking at how instead of young people sort of abanything from unpaid bills citations for missing school, how do we actually organize to do the advocacy that says that we are no longer going to allow these types of penalties to create both pipelines into prisons for young people while we are meaningfully designing programs actually alternatives to incarceration for our countries young adults. Thank you. If i could add some on the groundwork. Thank you very much for your support of youth build in your state. You have a powerful network that believes in young people and Second Chances. I had a chance to visit some of the programs and its amazing to see whats possible when there is this level of commitment. In addition to what has already been said. And you know this. Im encouraged but also want to keep an eye on this focus on neuroscience really recognizing that the young brain is not fully developed until 25. I will be 50 this year is probably not fully developed in me yet either. Really recognizing that they are children. We have experienced in youth build throughout our network here in this country about one third of the young people had criminal justice involvement. The Second Chance frame is a powerful frame. I totally agree Trauma Informed Care is not enough, critically important not enough. We are beginning to do distorted justice initiatives throughout our network making it part of the culture of youth build. I want to add the element of love which isnt often sad because its mushy and, what is love . We recognize that love is not enough. If a young person feels that someone cares about them, believes in them, the young person starts to trust that person. If the young person trust that person, they start to share their pain, their trauma, their challenges, if they begin to let those things go, they can actually heal and if there is a restorative healing frame within the program that can be accelerated. That really supports the young Person Development and transformation. Lastly i will say, today in Southern California we have a resource fair with our southern los angeles collaborative for the juvenile Justice System there. Youth build operates some of our programs operate within the juvenile Justice System and many of our programs obviously support the reentry of young people returning to their communities. But we are also serving as Diversion Program an alternative to incarceration and would like to do more of that we believe that our work and People Like Us who support young people in this way could be transformed in communities and the system. Thank you. Theres one thing i want to add. Love is the core value. I think it anchors our hope and help stupidly direct a vision for what we can collectively accomplish together. But i would also argue that empathy is just as important as love. To the point about Brain Science research i think there are lots of people that are given Second Chances. I think that when we talk about solutions that work its really important to hold an equity land because i think not all of our countries young people can get Second Chance in the way they deserve it but thats why i would argue its not only that we need to love all of our young people but we need to have deep empathy for all of our young people so that we can make sure the solutions we designed meet the needs of all of our young people. In addition to having the data around neuroscience and of course pervasive ratio and equities we were able to bring a broad array of Political Partners from the aclu to the coke industries. Work together and produced phenomenal results. The proof is in the pudding. Other Governors Committee governor herbert. I think this is a very important subject. Thank you for your testimony and counsel in us today. The things we want to teach them about, honesty, integrity, civic involvement, supportive country, be involved. What are we talking about . Are we talking about the prevention side when it comes to parenting and something we sometimes feel like is that something government should be involved with . Who would like to tackle that question . I could start. What was coming up as we were all talking today is the question of what is prevention. If we do the five why activity and keep asking why is this happening. At each level i feel like theres another opportunity to define thats prevention. Initially as you started speaking i started thinking about the role of addressing Mental Health supports in our education system. As a very important place for young people to show up and be safe and brave if they are provided the support they need they may be able to be safe and brave in the school day when they ate arent able to be safe and brave in their own community. Bringing that type of language and support to school would end up being a form of prevention for young people becoming disconnected in their teen years. You are challenging us to go even deeper into really the intersection of intergenerational trauma this is a multi generational problem and i think monique you spoke very eloquently to that idea of meeting the need of a child and the need of a parent the same time. We have many young people who say that part of their growing up responsibility was caring for their parents Mental Health needs. So how do we as leaders feel about that. That should not at the end of the day be a Young Persons responsibility. I think theyre a very unique opportunities for us to ask children and youth what their families need. And to ask parents what they need and really have a by parallel approach in that. Its a really good point. I would ab and the prevention side i work is primarily on the intervention side. It is to design Early Warning system so we can mediate when we can see young people are getting off track. That includes everything from tracking credit entertainment for people so theyre not over age and under credited. Figuring out in real time as soon as the School System is not working what is the alternative path look like. When i talked about supporting cross system cross sector collaboratives i would say that probably 75 of our work is on the intervention side but 25 of visit on the prevention time so what we recognize that we will continue to lose all the young people at some point we have to go back and turn off the valve. So most of our work is 100 prevention. Thats where we aim to get in terms of supporting communities across the country. We are working with School Systems all across the United States to help build Early Warning systems with k12 schools so they are able to really be proactive and help young people demonstrating signs of getting off track the other thing i would say is that in supporting the Community Collaboratives cross system cross sector partnerships i talked about earlier there are some communities i was recently in a Rural Community in texas the community wasnt willing to come to the table to talk about strategies to support disconnected young people unless the parents were in the room. The conversation centered the parents and the young people together talking about how the strategy would meet to employ the two generation focus in order to effectively move young people. There is nothing we could do for the students if we were not also doing something for the parents. Context matters. Everyplace is different but for us to be able to effectively support cross system cross sector collaboratives we know in some communities its and not order to talk about reconnecting young people without Holding Position for what it means to bring parents to the table as part of the strategy. Thank you. Im going to go to governor pritzker. Last question before we close out this session. I want to make a comment and then ask for reaction by the panel but its a reaction to governor herbert comment in question. About convention because first i want to commend you here in the state of utah actually when before i was governor in the private sector i was also involved for a couple of decades in the Early Childhood education expanding opportunities for providing services to children 0 to 5 particularly the most disadvantaged and here in utah under your leadership Early Childhood is really grown significantly. I want to commend you i know your wife does a lot of the work in the area with parents. Early childhood to me on the prevention side is usually important aspect is treating, i dont know if thats the right word but parenting and providing them education while we are also providing the resources that children need in the very early years on visitation and Early Intervention programs. And preschool. I find as governor looking at the biggest most challenging issues here are in my department of Children Family services the children most in need who have the Biggest Challenges the parents have the Biggest Challenges. There is a desire to keep parents and Children Together even when you have situations of neglect that are reported. Substance abuse and Mental Health treatments are a huge percentage of the issues of intact families. I guess im going to the panel. The question of when you think about prevention you talked about Mental Health services for children who are coming out or at the very end tail end of being served by the state but i also think its a parent issue too, Mental Health needs treatment needs and Substance Abuse treatment needs i guess im throwing it back to you to get your reaction to what should we be doing to make sure those services are available to both to children and the adults. What have you seen that works well, recognizing we have limited resources but know that we need to address these challenges in our states. Go ahead. Thank you for the question governor. I think there is something to the two generational approach. As you noted. Just to continue with all the ground lands from youth build. We have young people who are a part of families who have generational gang involvement. You are expected to join at whatever age in your life and as i mentioned we focus on the half of the 5 million that are most impoverished. Many of the young people cant even imagine going to college or cant even knowledge of career how we break that has to include the two generation approach. Youth build does an adaptable model can have Parenting Classes many of our young people at 17 are parents of course you know this. And they are able to leverage the support because its not that magically at the age of 18 any young person is necessarily ready to Enter Society how do we figure out a way to seek what support to maybe scaffold support through the systems so that young adults can get onto the paths while also helping children as well. Unfortunately we are out of time. I would love to continue this conversation forever. Governor hutchinson, one last take away. The overarching take away from all these excellent presentations is the responsibility we have as governors. They are young people that have challenges no responsibility of their own. We have a response ability to address that. The other thing each of you mentioned you mentioned youth engagement. We as governors have to figure out ways to listen to our young people make sure we are meeting their needs. In making sure thank you for your inspiration and the emphasis on the response ability we have. For me i could respond with many things. But really important to maintain cross system cross sector collaborative and collective approach to make sure this is going to happen. These children are all our responsibilities and we only to work together. Thank you to the panel members. Mr. Lobel there and mr. Bergen. For your extraordinary leadership in addressing the needs of our opportunity across the United States. We look forward to partnering with you and taking dominic thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to join us today. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this weekend on American History tv saturday at 5 00 p. M. Eastern a discussion about the 1980 refugee act. 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Earlier today Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer and senators Richard Blumenthal and Edward Markey responded to former special Counsel Robert Mueller testimony yesterday. I have unanimous consent request i know my colleagues in connecticut has one as well. Indifference to the leader schedule i will speak for a few minutes on mine and then i will yield to senator so he will speak a few moments on his. Then we will wait for the leader to come out to