Preparing Youth for the Workforce and Careers

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (ETA) supports a wide variety of programs to ensure that all youth have the skills and training they need to successfully make the transition to adulthood and careers. These programs include:

• Job Corps — Job Corps is the nation's largest and most comprehensive residential education and job training program for at-risk youth, ages 16 through 24. Private companies, state agencies, federal agencies, and unions recruit young people to participate in Job Corps, where they can train for and be placed in jobs.
• Youth Opportunity Grants — This program provides services to youth, ages 14-21, living in high-poverty areas.
• Youth Formula-Funded Grant Programs — These programs provide services to eligible youth, ages 14-21, in local communities. Funds are allocated based on the number of unemployed individuals in areas of substantial unemployment; the relative excess number of unemployed individuals in a state; and the relative number of disadvantaged youth in a state.
• Apprenticeship — Apprenticeship is a combination of on-the-job training and related classroom instruction in which workers learn the practical and theoretical aspects of a highly skilled occupation. Applicants for apprenticeship programs must be at least 16 years old and meet the program sponsor's qualifications.
Source: http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/training/youth.htm

The Office of Youth Services (OYS) is part of the Office of Workforce Investment. OYS is responsible for coordinating youth related workforce activities for:

• State and Local Formula Youth Grants; and
• Competitive Grants -- Youth Opportunity Grants, Youth Offender Demonstration Grants, Going Home: Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative, and the Youth Development Practitioner Apprenticeship Initiative.
Source: http://www.doleta.gov/youth_services/

Please see http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/training/apprenticeship.htm for more information.

Re-establishment of the Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship

After consultation with the General Services Administration, the Department of Labor has determined that the re-establishment of a national advisory committee on apprenticeship is necessary and in the public interest. Accordingly, the Employment and Training Administration has re-chartered the Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship (ACA). The charter for the ACA expired on February 13, 2005. The current charter was signed March 2, 2005, and will expire two years from that date.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mr. Anthony Swoope, Administrator,
Office of Apprenticeship Training, Employer and Labor Services, Employment and Training Administration
U.S. Department of Labor
Room –4671
200 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20210
Telephone: 202-693-2796 (this is not a toll-free number)
Source: Federal Register March 18, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 52, page 13209), http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/pdf/05-5357.pdf.

Page Updated: May 04, 2005