Advocacy

This document contains CLASP’s recommendations for changes for Titles I and II of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to address selected problems specific to each program and to promote closer connections between these two programs and greater alignment with other workforce development programs to better advance the prospects of low-income, low-skilled youth and adults.

This legislative analyses provides recommendations for the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) reauthorization legislation: Title I Youth Provisions.

This document outlines opportunities for federal investment in disconnected youth.

JFF provides recommendations to help Congress revisit the act as part of a broader push for coherent, comprehensive, and effective support of workforce and economic development in the nation. JFF envisions a modernized workforce development system that is: powerful enough to build and maintain a 21st century workforce; multifunctional, to meet the needs of youth, workers, employers, and communities; and flexible, to adapt to a dynamic, competitive global economy.

This Policy Information Report examines information on the abilities and qualities needed to enter employment with a high school diploma, including the kinds of skills and abilities that employers say they want.

Corporate Voices for Working Families and its partner companies have developed a model alternative career pathway for disconnected youth.  They outline the challenges and present ways in which policymakers can address them.

This 2008 update provides recent data on the well-being of New York’s children. It tracks seven key issue areas – education, birth to five, health, mental health, economic security, child welfare, and youth – that policymakers, advocates and concerned citizens should focus on, and provides clear policy recommendations for the future. This edition focuses on racial and ethnic disparities in child well-being.

This report highlights the challenges facing at-risk and disconnected youth in the region, as well as strategies for connecting those young people to educational opportunities.

This testimony before the State of Michigan, House Committee on Education introduced several ideas on High School options for students, and made state policy recommendations.

This policy brief shows that states spend billions to imprison youth in secure facilitites, but could save money, preserve public safety, and improve life outcomes for individual youth by redirecting the money to community-based alternatives.