YOUTH

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Youth Program provides quality services for youth and young adults beginning with career exploration and guidance, continued support for educational attainment, opportunities for skills training in in-demand industries and occupations, and culminating with a good job along a career pathway or enrollment in post-secondary education.

Through a network of service providers, WIOA Youth Programs focuses on offering eligible participants access to services that will successfully connect them to education and/or in-demand industries occupations:

Tutoring, study skills training and instruction

Alternative secondary school services or dropout recovery services

Paid and unpaid work experiences, internships, job shadowing, on-the-job training, and pre-apprenticeships

Occupational skill training

Education offered concurrently with and in the same context as workforce preparation activities and training for a specific occupation

Leadership development opportunities

Supportive services

Adult mentoring

Follow-up services

Comprehensive guidance and counseling

Financial literacy education

Entrepreneurial skills training

Services that provide labor market and employment information

Activities that help prepare for and transition to post-secondary education and training