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Download full textSarah Salimi; Ivonne Garcia – MDRC, 2025
Summer youth employment programs (SYEPs) have the potential to serve as critical bridges to promising careers, especially for young people who hail from disadvantaged backgrounds or reside in underserved areas. Summer jobs can provide early exposure to professional environments, equipping participants with essential skills for the workplace,…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Summer Programs, Barriers, Disadvantaged
Little, Milton J., Jr.; Tumolillo, Alan – 1984
The cost benefits of a model work training program for at-risk youth in New York City were analyzed. Starting with an individual assessment of each client's needs, the INTERFACE youth employment training program included these components: work experience in public service projects, literacy education/equivalency diploma preparation, classroom…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Berkowitz, Louis, Ed.; And Others – 1971
This demonstration project in New York City undertook to help potential dropouts remain in school through the introduction of a program which combined after-school work experience with group and individual counseling. Concomitantly, it sought to develop an effective intervention methodology for replication in other communities. The principal…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attitude Change, Counseling Services, Demonstration Programs
Sadd, Susan; And Others – 1983
The Alternative Youth Employment Strategies (AYES) Project began as one of the demonstration projects funded under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Project Act in 1980. The program, which features three training models, is targeted toward high-risk, disadvantaged youth, especially minority youths from urban areas who had prior involvement…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Demonstration Programs
Corporation for Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, PA. – 1980
The Ventures in Community Improvement (VICI) demonstration, a national research and demonstration program, was designed to test the effectiveness of a youth employment program in various settings. Eight VICI programs, each of which enrolled up to 60 unemployed, out-of-school, economically disadvantaged youths between the ages of 16 and 19, were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Building Trades, Community Change, Community Programs
Sprengel, Donald P.; Tomey, E. Allan – 1974
The report describes the development of the Youth Training in the Private Sector Model for conducting on-the-job training for high school age youth. It is based on a two-year study of the Vocational Exploration in the Private Sector (VEPS) Program in New York City, which placed potential dropouts in work/training positions in the private sector…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Dropouts, Educational Programs, Models
