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PROGRAM
JTPA TITLE IV-H YOUTH FAIR CHANCE
PROGRAM INFORMATION
POPULATION SERVED: In-school and out-of-school
SERVICES PROVIDED: Recruitment, testing and assessment, life skills instruction, case management, basic education skills instruction, tutoring, occupational skills training, pre-vocational skills training, employment skills instruction, internships, mentoring, job shadowing, job development, job placement and post-placement counseling
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY: U.S. Department of Labor
ELIGIBLE SERVICE PROVIDERS: Community-based organizations, public secondary schools
SOURCE OF FUNDING: Federal
AUTHORIZATION: Federal Statute: Job Training Partnership Act, Title IV, Part H (Public Law 97-300)
DESCRIPTION: A federally-funded demonstration program targeted to youth living in high poverty cities or counties.
PROGRAM DATA
FISCAL YEAR: 1996
(1996-97)
1997
(1997-98)
1998
(1998-99)
1999
(1999-00)
2000
(2000-01)
APPROPRIATIONS($)*: $ none none none none
NUMBER ENROLLED: 352 in-school; 330 out-of-school



OUTCOME DATA: IN-SCHOOL 305 work-based learning; 352 school-based learning



OUT-OF-SCHOOL 211 job placements



CONTACT
NAME/AGENCY: CHARLES HOUSTON, City of New York Department of Employment
PHONE NUMBER: 212-442-2250

* Appropriation originally for 18-month period (7/1/94 -12/31/95). Program extended through December 31, 1997, an additional 12 months, for a total of 30 months. Figures shown indicate original contract and final contract appropriation. The contract term for the program ended December 31, 1997. All activity for the program ended June 1998. Agency did not report data for 1997-98.