WIA YOUTH PROGRAM

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WIA YOUTH PROGRAM
Outreach, Recruitment, Intake, Registration,
and Eligibility Requirements
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Outreach Recruitment(Planning Components)

• Develop Marketing Plan
• Identify Organizations Providing Services To
  Youth
• Outline Referral Procedure
• Staff Involvement

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Outreach Recruitment(Questions)

• Where do you find youth?
• Where do youth hang out?
• How do you recruit youth?
• How do youth workers, counselors others
  identify refer youth?
• Where, to whom, do referrals go?
• What materials to you use to recruit youth?

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Outreach Recruitment(Marketing)

• Use radio, television, newspaper ads
• Involve youth in recruiting process
• Use infomercials)
• Contacts schools
• Hold orientation events that have food prizes
• Involve community leaders

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Outreach Recruitment(Marketing Continued)

• Provide information about WIA youth program
• Emphasize appeal value of WIA youth services
• Focus on positives of participation
• Participants will be equal partners
• Benefits of participation

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Outreach Recruitment(Referral Organizations)

• Faith-Based
• Schools
• Social Service Agencies
• Non-Profit
• Juvenile Institutions
• Homeless Shelters
• Self referral

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Outreach Recruitment(Partners)

• Court systems
• Law enforcement agencies
• Public housing authorities
• Education agencies
• Job Corp representatives
• Public private organizations

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Registration(Requirements)

• Register all youth
• Collect documentation to support eligibility
• Collect core identification demographic
  information
• Collect equal employment opportunity data

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Registration(Identification and Demographics
Information)

• Name, including, first, middle last
• Address
• Telephone number
• Social Security number
• School status
• Veteran status (older youth)

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Registration(Identification and Demographics
Information Continued)

• Labor force status
• Date of registration
• Selective service registration
• Citizenship

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Registration(Equal Employment Opportunity Date)

• Race
• Ethnicity
• Gender
• Date of birth
• Disability

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Intake and Registration(Information)

• Provide overview for youth of WIA youth program
• Discuss youth responsibilities
• Expectations of youth
• Youth Eligibility requirements
• Expected results outcomes of youths
  participation

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Eligibility Requirements

• Not less than 14 years old not more than 21
  years old at registration
• Low-income
• Possess one or more of the following
• Basic skills deficient
• School Dropout
• Homeless, runaway, or foster child

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Eligibility Requirements(Continued)

• Pregnant or parenting
• An offender
• Individual, (including youth with disabilities)
  who requires additional assistance to complete an
  educational program or secure retain a job

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Eligibility Documentation

• Eligibility documentation for youth program
  services must be verified. Documentation
  requirements may be established at the local
  level. Self-certification for youth ages 18 - 21
  is acceptable. For youth ages 14 - 17, a parent
  or legal guardian may certify eligibility
  information for the minor. Self-certification
  means an individuals sign attestation that the
  information they submit to demonstrate
  eligibility for a program under Title I of WIA is
  true accurate.

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Enrollment(Participant)
The term participant means an individual who
has been determined to be eligible to participate
in and who is receiving services (except for
follow-up services authorized under Title I).
Participation shall be deemed to commence on the
first day, following determination of
eligibility, on which the individual began
receiving subsidized employment, training, or
other services provided by WIA Title I.
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Non-Eligible Individuals
If the individual is not eligible or would not
benefit from the WIA youth program local boards
must ensure that these youth are referred for
further assessment, as necessary, and to
appropriate training educational programs that
have the capacity to serve them on a sequential
or concurrent basis.