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Leadership & Skills Development
WHO WE ARE
Since 2008, The NEXT Steps Youth Entrepreneur Program (501c3) has served as a nonprofit workforce intermediary that specializes in creating interconnected, project-based learning programs that transform critical thinking, critical reasoning and life skills into readiness skills for college, career, business & community reinvestment.
Standards
Meets US CTE Course Standard #1
2,000+
6-12th grade students engaged
80%
Immediate gains in skills identification
100%
Effective in optimizing output
OUR LEARNING TOOLS DELIVER NATIONAL K-12 CTE COURSE STANDARD #1
FOR EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
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August 2020. Paulding County, GA becomes the first school district to integrate Community On Demand™ into their 4-Year Perkins V Funded Career, Technical and Agricultural (CTAE) Employability Skills Development Strategy for all 6th-8th grades.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
The STEM Direct Youth Chamber of Commerce
We simply meet you where you are!
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A STEAM ENTREPRENEURSHIP & TALENT PIPELINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
We provide leadership development and skill-building lessons in financial literacy, digital technologies, entertainment, entrepreneurship and economics to maximize engagement between all community stakeholders within a highly efficient and optimized learning ecosystem.
Personal Development
We offer youth and young adult learners (ages 11-24) leadership and life skills development training experiences that ensure they are ready for college, career, business and community reinvestment.
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Professional Development
We offer professional development training to help mentors, educators, life coaches, hiring managers, and instructors create innovative learning ecosystems that acknowledge various mindsets, leverage existing local resources, and produce high quality, effective and optimized outputs.
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Business Development
We offer non-profit and for-profit business support services through leadership and organizational development training to help them create early investment opportunities for non-profit and for profit businesses looking to hire and retain a highly skilled workforce.
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Community Development
We leverage the impact of work-based learning experiences as pre-cursors to service projects and social ventures to help community stakeholders address, reduce, and/or eliminate the impact of socio-economic conditions negatively affecting their local economy.
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Paulding County School District
NEW! CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
The STEAM Investigative Process
A new & innovative approach to critical thinking, teambuilding & problem-solving
Earn An SIP Certification
CRITICAL THINKING • TEAM BUILDING • PROBLEM-SOLVING
We fuse the fun of a card game with skill-building activities to teach individuals, educators, businesses and community-based organizations how to adopt The STEAM Investigative Process as a new, more effective approach towards improving standardized test outcomes, engagement and overall performance.
SIP Scholars
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We use The Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs Activity Workbook, Toolkit & Online Courses to help leaners assess their skillset, build a Junior Executive Management (JEM) team, increase their financial literacy skills, and ultimately launch a service-learning project and/or social venture
SIP Instructors
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We teach educators, mentors, hiring managers and life coaches how to use Community On Demand™ to strategically design, build, monitor, evaluate, and optimize the outputs and outcomes of projects and programs within an interconnected learning ecosystem.
SIP Source Centers
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We teach community stakeholders how to leverage project & work-based learning experiences to address, reduce, and/or eliminate the impact of negative socio-economic conditions as an effort to make early investments in the development and training of a highly skilled local constituency.
INTEGRATION STRATEGY
Community On Demand™ Immersion Process
For new & existing training programs
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CORE/COURSE STANDARDS • AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS • CAREER DEVELOPMENT
We take our clients through a three part immersion process to help them integrate Community On Demand™ as a flexible, blended-learning employment solution for new and existing curriculum, after school programs, extra-curricula activities, and workforce development programs.
Organizational
Development
Our signature Community Involvement Growth Strategy (CIGS) Model establishes organizational integrity, ensures organizational sustainability and strengthens leadership decision-making capabilities.
Activity & Project
Development
Our signature Agricultural Technologies With Open Outdoor Designs (ATWOOD) Model ensure participants know how to connect the contribution values of their community service and project-based learning projects to the local job economy and marketplace.
Evaluation, Maintenance & Optimization
Our Digital Badge & Skillcoin Rewards Micro-Certification System helps stakeholders track, measure, report and sustain the impact of their optimized outputs, program deliverables, standardized test performance and readiness outcomes.
ARE YOU READY TO PLAY?
View our catalogue of innovative training materials
Game Set
Card decks and game boards
Online Courses
Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs
Activity Toolkits
Worksheets, Lesson Plans & Educator's Guide
SIP Certifications
Leadership Development Workshop Series
Course License
Online Course Access For Large Groups
Custom Programs
Work & Project-Based Learning Experiences
Consulting
Immersion Strategies
Membership
STEM Direct Youth Chamber of Commerce
Enjoy our
hybrid training experience:
Guided + Self-Paced Instruction
- 2-day research and theory workshop
- 4 or 5-day demonstration
- SIP Certified coach support
- Strategy exercises, variations, and more!
- Become a SIP Certified Instructor in less than 6 weeks
- 40+ videos of instruction
- Video library of STEAM professionals classroom sessions & Industry Chats
- Complete the course on your own time & pace.
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