DOL-09/08/07-1C: WIA Youth Program

Increase placements and educational attainments of youth served through the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) youth program.

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Strategies: * Serve in- and out-of-school youth, including youth with disabilities and other youth who may require specialized assistance to complete an educational program or to secure and hold employment. * Prepare youth for employment and post-secondary education by stressing linkages between academic and occupational learning. * Provide tutoring, alternative schools, summer employment, occupational training, work experience, supportive services, leadership development, mentoring, counseling, and followup services. * Connect youth with quality secondary and post-secondary educational opportunities and highgrowth and other employment opportunities. * Coordinate and leverage resources across youth-serving agencies at the state and local level.

Stakeholder(s):

• ETA Workforce Investment Program: The Department has outlined a strategic vision for the delivery of youth services under WIA. This vision emphasizes a public workforce system serving the neediest youth: those aging out of foster care, involved with the juvenile justice system, children of incarcerated parents, migrant youth, Native American youth, and youth with disabilities. Efforts to transform the system are focused on four areas: encouraging Governors to provide strong leadership in advancing the vision for serving youth most in need, engaging employers and civic leaders to identify demand-driven workforce solutions, emphasizing the development of academically rigorous education pathways, and encouraging collaboration across youth-serving agencies.
  •  (Performer)


• Low-Income Youth: WIA authorizes services to low-income youth (age 14-21) with barriers to employment. Eligible youth are deficient in basic skills or are homeless, are a runaway, are pregnant or parenting, are offenders, school dropouts, or foster children.
  •  (Beneficiary)

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