Description
Report providing guidance on the following topics: 1. An assessment of the obstacles that prevent disconnected youth from pursuing educational opportunities or entering the workforce, including but not limited to, issues related to housing, childcare, health care and substance abuse, criminal justice, transportation, wages, and language and cultural barriers. 2. An analysis and discussion on how to address any such obstacles; 3. Recommendations for how to better inform the public on the availability of services for disconnected youth; 4. A review of the quality, and the type of programs that serve disconnected youth, including whether they adequately address the education and skills disconnected youth need to attain and retain work; 5. The costs related to implementing programs for disconnected youth; 6. Recommendations regarding how to improve existing programs serving disconnected youth; 7. Recommendations regarding how to improve data collection for disconnected youth programs and make the data publicly available; 8. Recommendations on effective follow-up services such as mentoring, work related peer support groups, further education or training, career pathway development, support for maintaining a job, and recommendations regarding the length of time such services should be offered to any disconnected or formerly disconnected youth; 9. An analysis of the education levels and skills sought by employers; 10. Identifying the most effective ways that disconnected youth programs can meet employer needs; 11. Recommendations on the creation of partnerships between programs for disconnected youth and employers that can serve as a job pipeline for participants; 12. Identifying high growth industries that generate living wage jobs for youth; and 13. Identifying ways to foster and strengthen partnerships between public and private providers that serve disconnected youth. (Completed)
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