PACTT Affiliate Network → Turbine Operating System
How PACTT requirements and the PA Competency Development Framework map to Turbine products and workflows—standards flow down, evidence flows up, and BJJS gets oversight without manual aggregation.
"PACTT works because it's not one program—it's a statewide affiliate model where providers voluntarily meet a common standard for academics, job skills, work-related services, and soft skills so youth leave with documented competencies, portable credentials, and a transition-ready portfolio. The challenge isn't writing the standards—it's executing them consistently across sites: documenting ESSM progress into educational records and probation discharge packets, producing discharge portfolios, ensuring GED/HiSET and credit recovery supports, connecting eligible youth to OVR, running internal QA, and tracking credential attainment. Turbine is built to make that execution measurable and repeatable—capturing evidence at the point of service, translating standards into workflows, and generating BJJS-ready reporting and discharge artifacts from the same verified data."
NCJJ White Paper (2005): The Statutory Foundation
Advancing Competency Development in Pennsylvania
Purpose Clause
Pennsylvania's juvenile justice purpose: balanced attention to community protection, accountability, and competency development. Workforce and education aren't add-ons—they're core to what the system achieves.
Competency Development Definition
Youth acquiring knowledge and skills to become productive, connected, law-abiding community members. This is what you measure.
Five Competency Domains
Pro-social skills, Moral reasoning, Academic skills, Workforce development skills, Independent living skills. This is what you build programming around.
Tell, Show, Do
Present the idea, model it, role-play/practice, corrective feedback, generalization, coaching, reinforcement, recycle learning. This is how programming should be delivered.
More Than Skill Training
Practice opportunities, productive experiential activities, and pro-social relationships/bonds. Competency work must show up in real-world behaviors and routines, not just worksheets.
4-Layer Architecture
Standards → Delivery → Evidence → Outputs → Oversight
Governance & Standards
PACTT Affiliates (Voluntary Network)
Turbine Workforce Platform
Required Outputs & BJJS Oversight
PACTT Requirements → Turbine Products
Core PACTT affiliate requirements mapped to Turbine capabilities
| PACTT Requirement | Turbine Product | Evidence Flow |
|---|---|---|
| ESSM tracking + discharge packet | VELA + ReportingOps | Capture → Export |
| Certificates (OSHA-10, ServSafe, MOS, ICDL) | Certific + LMS | Completion → Issuance |
| Work skills + interest assessments | QNR + VELA | Assessment → Evidence |
| Programs of Study / lesson plan approval | KnowledgeOps + VELA | Governance → Sign-off |
| Internal QA reviews | ReportingOps | Rollups → Dashboards |
| GED/HiSET prep + credit recovery | LearningOps + TurbineLMS | Instruction → Progress |
| Discharge portfolio | VELA + ReportingOps | Evidence → Export |
| OVR connections for youth with disabilities | Smart Notifications + ReportingOps | Triggers → Referrals |
5 Competency Domains → Turbine Workflows
PA Competency Development Framework (NCJJ, 2005) mapped to Turbine delivery and evidence capture
Pro-social skills
Interpersonal skills, communication, teamwork
Moral reasoning
Decision-making, ethical reasoning, accountability
Academic skills
Reading, math, GED/HiSET prep, credit recovery
Workforce development skills
Job skills, certifications, work-based learning
Independent living skills
Life skills, financial literacy, self-management
Tell, Show, Do → Turbine Evidence Flow
The white paper's structured skill training approach mapped to Turbine
Tell
Present the idea
Show
Model it, demonstrate
Do
Role-play, practice, feedback
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