Responding to employment challenges of at-risk youth : federal programs and an advancement framework / Joanna Harman, editor.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Harman, Joanna, editor.

Series:

• Children's issues, laws and programs series.
• Children's Issues, Laws and Programs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Youth--Employment--United States.
• At-risk youth--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA, P.L. 105-220) is the primary federal law that provides job training and related services to unemployed and underemployed individuals, including vulnerable young people with barriers to employment. All youth job training programs and related services are authorized under Title I of WIA and administered by the Department of Labor (DOL). These programs include the WIA Youth Activities formula program, Job Corps, and YouthBuild. This book provides an overview of issues that have been raised by stakeholders about youth programs authorized under WIA. It als

Contents:

• ""RESPONDING TO EMPLOYMENT CHALLENGES OF AT-RISK YOUTH: FEDERAL PROGRAMS AND AN ADVANCEMENT FRAMEWORK""; ""RESPONDING TO EMPLOYMENT CHALLENGES OF AT-RISK YOUTH: FEDERAL PROGRAMS AND AN ADVANCEMENT FRAMEWORK""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Vulnerable Youth: Overview of Issues Affecting Youth Programs Authorized Under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA)(""; ""Summary""; ""Introduction""; ""Youth Programs Authorized Under Title I of the Workforce Investment Act""; ""Overview of Issues""
• ""Consolidation of Youth Workforce Programs""""Role of One-Stop Centers""; ""Role of Youth Councils""; ""Coordination with the Education System""; ""Program Performance""; ""Impact Evaluation""; ""Youth Activities""; ""YouthBuild""; ""Job Corps""; ""Performance Measures""; ""Youth Activities""; ""Job Corps""; ""YouthBuild""; ""Youth Served by the Youth Activities Program""; ""Eligibility""; ""In-School and Out-of-School Youth""; ""Older Youth""; ""Proposals to Close Job Corps Centers or Make Them a State Option""; ""Appendix. Common Measures for Selected WIA Youth Programs""
• ""Placement in Employment or Education""""Attainment of a Degree or Certificate""; ""Literacy or Numeracy Gains""; ""End Notes""; ""Chapter 2: Vulnerable Youth: Employment and Job Training Programs""; ""Summary""; ""Introduction""; ""Context""; ""History of Federal Youth Employment and Job Training Programs17""; ""Depression Era""; ""War on Poverty Programs""; ""Expanding Youth Programs""; ""CETA and YEDPA""; ""JTPA22""; ""STWOA""; ""WIA""; ""Overview of Youth Programs Authorized Under Title I of the Workforce Investment Act""; ""Coordination""; ""Funding""; ""Funding for FY2000-FY2014""
• ""FY2014 Funding""""FY2013 Funding""; ""Workforce Innovation Fund""; ""Job Corps Transfer Authority""; ""Youth Activities Formula Grant Program53""; ""Overview and Purpose""; ""Program Structure""; ""Youth Councils""; ""Elements of Local Programs""; ""What Elements Mean in Practice63""; ""Participants""; ""Allocations""; ""Performance""; ""Job Corps75""; ""Overview and Purpose""; ""Program Structure""; ""Services""; ""Participants""; ""Allocations""; ""Performance""; ""YouthBuild87""; ""Overview and Purpose88""; ""Program Structure""; ""Participants""; ""Allocations""; ""Performance""
• ""Reintegration of Ex-Offenders91""""Overview and Purpose""; ""Program Structure""; ""Education""; ""Apprenticeships, Alternative Education, and Expansion Grants""; ""Reentry97""; ""Community Service/Restorative Justice""; ""Participants""; ""Allocations""; ""Performance""; ""Youth Opportunity Grants""; ""Overview and Purpose""; ""Program Structure""; ""Participants""; ""Allocations""; ""Performance Measures""; ""Appendix A. Workforce Investment Act Funding for Youth Programs""; ""Appendix B. Definitions of Terms Used in WIA Youth Programs""; ""End Notes""
• ""Chapter 3: Advancing the Self-Sufficiency and Well-Being of at-Risk Youth: A Conceptual Framework*""

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 22, 2015).

ISBN:

1-63463-509-4

OCLC:

899495762