School-to-Work Opportunities Act: Out-of-School Youth

Zusammenfassung

All information required to submit a proposal is contained in this announcement. The U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (DOL/ETA), announces the availability of approximately $750,000 to award competitive grants to youth employment and/or education program providers that currently have a solid foundation of serving out-of-school youth (OSY) in a school-to-work (STW) framework. The purpose of the grants will be to accelerate the development of promising STW practices for OSY or to add new STW components to existing initiatives. This project is not designed to help existing youth programs plan how to serve out-of-school youth in a STW framework. Rather, the purpose is to select a variety of types of youth initiatives that already have developed and are implementing school-to-work elements for out-of-school youth, to help them build on this foundation in order to serve additional out-of-school youth more effectively, and to share the results with other out-of-school youth service deliverers and STW grantees. Applicants that are not able to demonstrate a substantial number of the components and strategies of a School-to-Work Opportunities system, as descri