Youth Education and Training Activities
The Youth Activities Program provides grants to State and local communities to create youth services that help low-income youth ages 14-21 who seek the government’s assistance in obtaining academic and employment opportunities. Participants to this program will receive services that will develop their occupational skills through counseling, internships, mentoring, tutoring, leadership development and support services for possible job placements. Youths who qualify for this program possess at least one of the following circumstances:
- a runaway
- a foster child
- pregnant or a parent
- deficient in basic literacy skills
- a school drop-out
- a homeless
- an offender
- Requiring additional assistance to complete education or secure and hold employment.
Qualified under Youth Education and Training Activities program, aside from those stated above require that you are at least 13 years of age and under 22 years of age. He or she must belong to a household with income of no more than $8,861 per person and less than $58,141 total per year.
More information about this program is available at:
http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/training/youth.htm
To find a local office to apply for benefits available through this program visit:
http://www.servicelocator.org
Employment and Training Assistance
This program is intended for individuals who are in the process of seeking for jobs or developing their work skills. Services include job search support, referral and placement backing, reemployment services to unemployment insurance claimants, labor market information, and individual skills assessments. As long as an individual is 18 or older and authorized to work in the United States he or she is eligible under this program. Other services provided include counseling, help in developing an individual employment plan, training and basic education, childcare and transportation services all aimed to enable an individual to participate in these activities. However, the provision for these services is based upon an assessment of an individual’s needs.
The program generally requires that you must be unemployed or about to become unemployed.
For more information including the application process you may get in touch via the following:
Program Contact Information
877-872-5627
People who are hearing impaired may call this toll-free TTY number:
877-889-5627
What we should aim for is self-empowerment by being gainfully employed. This is how we can survive not just one coming holiday season but also the seasons in between. Probably, the next year’s Christmas won’t find us posting another appeal for help on how we could provide our kids a Christmas of cheers.