The California State Job Training Coordinating Council (SJTCC) appointed a youth subcommittee to determine the role that the SJTCC should play in preventing inadequate skill development and lack of jobs from destroying the working lives of California's high-risk youth. The subcommittee identified the state's high-risk youth as those who have dropped out of school and have not completed remedial equivalents; those who have serious educational deficiencies after completing high school; and those pupils whose frequent absenteeism places them at risk of dropping out of school. It was found that although erratic work and unemployment are not seriously detrimental to most young people, a growing subgroup of hard-core unemployed and unemployable youth are confronting major problems as they attempt to enter and remain in the labor force. The combination of increasing numbers of high-risk youth and the declining size of the youth population as a whole makes the problem of high-risk youth critical to the success or failure of California's economy. To help remedy the problem, the SJTCC must take steps to improve administration of Job Training Partnership Act funds and leverage other funds for the benefit of high-risk youth. For this reason, the youth subcommittee formulated nine specific recommendations pertaining to the use of discretionary funds involving youth, performance standards, incentive rewards, program design for job training of high-risk youth, program content for serving high-risk youth, work experience programs for high-risk youth, long-term study and evaluation, involvement of the business community, and involvement of state agencies serving youth. (MN)