This report focuses on the seven original Youth Transition Demonstration (YTD) projects selected for funding in 2003. Three of the original seven projects were selected for a national random assignment evaluation in 2005; however, this report only focuses on program operations prior to joining the random assignment evaluation for the three…

Describes the Jobs for Bay State Graduates component of Jobs for America's Graduates, a private sector-oriented youth employment program. (FL)

This article describes the Milton Keynes Home-School Link project, which provides home instruction for parents with preschoolers. Funded by the Manpower Services Commission, the project provides short-term employment for out-of-work teachers, who serve as home visitors, and unemployed young people, who act as aides. (SJL)

At the urging of the governor of Iowa, private business and industry plus interested citizens organized and funded Project Iowa Training and Retraining of Youth (Project I-TRY) programs in many Iowa cities during the summers of 1967 and 1968 and during the 1968-1969 school year. The program gave youth from low and marginal income families a…

Overviews four demonstration programs developed out of a recently enacted federal youth employment act: The Young Adult Conservation Corps (YACC), The Youth Community Conservation and Improvement Projects, The Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects, and Youth Employment and Training Programs. (EM)

This paper reports on an experiment to test youth employment as a tactic for delinquency prevention. Features of jobs that should cause young people to develop a stake in doing well are described. Three elements of the bond to work that enable the work experience to reduce delinquency are identified: commitment, attachment, and belief. Various…

This report describes twenty federally funded youth employment program models and innovations. Each four-page description includes the following: program title, name of operating agency, project costs, source of funds, number of participants, unique program features, duration of grant, major program goals and objectives, prime sponsor, contact…

In many foreign countries the employment service plays a larger role in helping young people move from school to work than it does in the United States. The article describes youth employment practices in Japan, Sweden, and Great Britain to illustrate the range of activities and organizational structures. (MF)

Reviews various youth employment programs and demonstration projects authorized by federal legislation. (MF)

This document contains one of two reports presented at the Governor's National Forum on Youth Employment, May 22-23, 1980. Focusing on Missouri Youth and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), this report is divided into five sections. Section 1 presents a geo-economic profile of Missouri by the following regions: (1) the St. Louis…

This document contains the first volume in a three-volume state-of-the-art report based on a study conducted to identify and analyze the effective mechanisms for facilitating coordination of vocational education programs with Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Title IV youth programs. Included in this volume are 111 case studies of…

Manitoba's STAY program is designed to create employment for "special needs" youth ages 16 to 24: the chronically unemployed, the handicapped, dropouts, native youth, delinquents, and single parents. The program pays participants to work in the private sector or nonprofit organizations and provides them with counseling and tutorial…

Youthwork, Incorporated, was created by the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA) to keep track of youth employment and training programs. Privately-owned Youthwork administers federal demonstration grants across the country to help provide job guidance, work experience credit, private sector involvement, and…

This first in a series highlighting Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA) programs describes a guidance and placement program in Williamson County, Tennessee, to ease students' transition from school to work through career counseling, job training at Yates Vocational Center, job placement, and community liaison services.…

This booklet serves as an introduction to the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and describes the ETA's development and the services it provides to employers and jobseekers. It details programs, field services, history, prime objectives, and the 1978 legislation concerning ETA and CETA. Special areas discussed in detail are the…