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

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All information required to submit a proposal is contained in this announcement. The U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (DOL/ETA), in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education and the National School-to-Work Office, announces the availability of $1,270,000 to award competitive grants to youth employment and/or education program providers that currently have a solid foundation of serving out-of-school youth in a school-to-work framework. The purpose of the grants will be to support the adaptation of school-to-work principles by existing out-of-school youth initiatives and to connect their efforts to the Federally-funded school-to-work systems in their states. This project is not designed to help existing youth programs plan how to serve out-of-school youth in a school-to-work framework. Rather, the purpose is to select a variety of types of youth initiative that already are implementing school-to-work elements for out-of-school youth, and to help them build on this foundation. Applications are required to demonstrate that they have already designed and begun implementation of a substantial number of the components and strategies of a school-to