Carving a Career Path: Influence of Higher Education Services

Date:March 21, 2023 to March 21, 2023

Updated: April 06, 2023

Stories of how higher education services helped three young people from Ghana and Jamaica build their career paths.

Tuesday, March 21, 2023 from 9:00-10:00 Eastern Time/1:00-2:00 GMT

Registration is required. Watch the recording here!

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Come listen to the success stories of Faith Rovina Ngala and Jacob Osae who share their experience with career centers in Ghana into the education and technology sectors. Sashawaney Clarke will share her experience with a non-conventional higher education and career path in Jamaica and into the agroprocessing. In this interactive panel discussion, these young people and audience members will be able to share about what kinds of support and services were most useful in their transition from higher education to work.

Higher education administrators and programming implementers can listen for and contribute on lessons in supporting young peoples' school-to-work transitions, and young people can hear from their peers about leveraging available services for employment.

Presented by USAID's YouthPower 2: Learning and Evaluation Activity, the Higher Education Engagement and Transformation Community of Practice (CoP) serves youth, practitioners in youth-serving organizations, policymakers, and staff and students of higher education institutions.

This event will include automatic English closed captioning (cc).

Photo Credit: USAID

About the Community of Practice

The YP2LE Learning Network brings together diverse stakeholders who seek to learn more and share about youth development. As one of six communities of practice, the Higher Education Engagement and Transformation (HEET) group helps members share and benefit from collective learning. Learning more about the HEET and other CoPs on YouthPower.org and register to connect with these communities.

You must be a registered member of YouthPower.org in order to participate in the discussion group. Register today!

About YouthPower 2: Learning and Evaluation (YP2LE)

YP2LE is a USAID-funded activity focused on building and disseminating evidence on Positive Youth Development (PYD). YP2LE’s goal is to give program implementers, researchers, and young changemakers the information, tools, and resources they need to develop high-quality, impactful, and sustainable youth programs.