Applications should present innovative and creative strategies that enhance a youth’s ability to move into self-sustaining employment, resulting in an upwardly mobile career path with higher earnings potential. Applicants should consider strategies that reflect effective integration of services with other partner agencies, and proactive strategies to involve employers in design of service strategies and implementation of the program. Eligible Participants Grant recipients may engage in outreach to or solicit participation from youth participants, including participants from underserved/underrepresented communities that may include, but are not limited to communities of color; rural communities; communities that have faced generational poverty; or other communities that have been historically underrepresented in youth employment, provided the Applicant provides information documenting such underrepresentation. Grant recipients shall be prohibited from denying services to individual program participants on the basis of lack of association with the listed categories above. Program participants shall be between 14 and 24 years of age.
