This issue attempts to provide some initial answers to questions about the use of case management in serving disadvantaged youth. "Case Management with At-Risk Youth" presents some basic lessons synthesized from a review of case management in employment programs and in services for teenage parents, the elderly, and the developmentally…

Global competition, coupled with the United States' loss of its competitive economic edge and its failure to sustain and develop a highly skilled work force, has created a new and serious challenge. To meet this challenge, the State Employment and Training Commission has developed a series of recommendations, called the Unified State Plan for New…

This report presents representative findings from the Youth Employment and Demonstration Project Act's (YEDPA) experiments and evaluations since 1977, focusing largely on the programs' impacts on participants. The report begins with a review of YEDPA-sponsored research on the nature, causes, and consequences of youth unemployment. Chapter 2 deals…