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Workforce Investment Act Youth Programs
This program provides formula funds to states for local resources to deliver a comprehensive array of youth services that focus on assisting at-risk and disadvantaged youth attain education and skills for PSE and employment.
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Youth Flash Training Series
The WIA Youth Flash Training Series provides information to professionals working with youth and connects them with tools and resources that can help them best serve program participants. These brief lessons (5 minutes or less) will focus on multiple WIA youth program topics, including the 10 WIA Youth Program elements, exit policies, finding youth program resources, waivers, and youth councils.
Youth@Work: Talking Safety
This curriculum in occupational safety and health can be used in the classroom or other group training sessions. It is designed to teach core health and safety skills and knowledge, and covers basic information relevant to any occupation. The target audience for the curriculum is high school age students; however, much of the material can be used in post-secondary job training environments like apprenticeship programs. The curriculum includes instructions for teachers and a step-by-step guide for presenting the material. The bulk of the curriculum is focused on teaching fundamental principles of occupational safety that young workers can use on their first jobs and carry with them into adulthood
Young Worker Safety and Health
This Workplace Safety & Health Topic from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention provides information for young people on workplace safety and health.
YouthBuild
Youthbuild provides an alternative education pathway that encourages youth to obtain a high school diploma or GED, while advancing toward employment while developing leadership skills and serving the community.
Share with Youth: Helping Teens Find Their Right Job
This website provides career, training, and job search information to job seekers, including various career options and steps to take to obtain a job. The “Students and Career Advisors” section can help students discover their passions, research occupations that might be a good fit, and plan and execute a job search.
Resource: School’s Out, But Safety Should Always Be In
This article highlights the ways NIOSH protects young workers and provides links to additional resources related to workplace safety and health.
Resource: 2017 Summer Jobs Resources Pages
These lists of technical assistance resources help state and local workforce leaders, youth program practitioners, stakeholders, and partners get prepared to successfully implement high-quality summer youth employment programs. Housed on ETA’s Youth Summer Jobs Community of Practice, these resources come from various entities, but the lessons learned are relevant to any program and can be used to enhance a summer youth employment program.
Share with Youth: TA Series for Youth Practitioners
This technical assistance (TA) series will provide webinars, podcasts, conference calls, and videos for youth practitioners focusing on various Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act youth-related topics.
Share with Youth: CareerOneStop's Video Collection
This video collection depicts a portrait of life for hundreds of careers, highlighting the job responsibilities, work settings, wages, educational requirements, and employment trends for a broad range of occupations.
Share with Youth: Career Video Collection
This video collection depicts a portrait of life in hundreds of careers, highlighting the job responsibilities, work settings, wages, educational requirements, and employment trends for a broad range of occupations.
Resource: Mythbuster! WIOA Titles I and II
This document addresses the myth that Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Youth Program and Title II Adult Education and Family Literacy Act funding cannot be used jointly to serve disconnected youth and discusses the benefits of partnering between the Title I Youth Program and the Title II Adult Education and Family Literacy Act Program.
Youth Apprenticeship
This webpage provides information on youth apprenticeship, including state and local programs, tools, research, and resources related to workers compensation and child labor laws. Business leaders, workforce professionals, educators, and youth-serving professionals can use this information as they create and promote apprenticeship opportunities for youth.
High School Apprenticeship Toolkit
This toolkit includes a factsheet that describes apprenticeships, how they work, and who they benefit; examples of real apprenticeships; a guide for launching high-quality apprenticeship programs; and additional resources. High schools, colleges, workforce organizations, and businesses can use this information to create and launch apprenticeship programs for high school students.
Resources to Assist Apprenticeship Programs
This page, developed by Workforce GPS, features resources and tools that employers and organizations can use to learn about apprenticeship and how it can be implemented.
Resource: Disability and Apprenticeship
This page provides tools, videos, resources, webinars, and reports that educators, businesses, community colleges, and others interested in implementing or expanding apprenticeship can use to learn more.
CDC Teen Pregnancy
This website from CDC provides information and data about teen pregnancy. Sections of the site target resources for parents, guardians, and health care providers. It also includes videos, podcasts, reports, a social media tool kit and other resources focused on teen pregnancy and teen pregnancy prevention.
CDC's Teen Pregnancy and Social Media
CDC provides a range of social media tools to promote your teen pregnancy prevention efforts. This quick reference guide can be used as a companion to the CDC Social Media Toolkit for Health Communicators [PDF- 3.76MB], and specifically highlights a number of social media tools with credible, science-based teen pregnancy prevention messages from the CDC. These free, easy-to-use communication tools can help expand the reach of your health messages and help increase public engagement.
Little (PSBA) GTO: 10 Steps to Promoting Science-based Approaches to Teen Pregnancy Prevention Using Getting to Outcomes
This manual presents a summary of the teen pregnancy prevention strategy, Getting to Outcomes (GTO). GTO is a science-based approach for how to set goals, consider and plan for a prevention program, develop and conduct process and outcome evaluation, and learn how to improve and sustain a program’s intended outcomes.
Prepregnancy Contraceptive Use Among Teens with Unintended Pregnancies Resulting in Live Births, 2004–2008
Data from this Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from January 2012 offers insight into current statistics about teens not using contraception, teens who give birth, the risks of early childbearing, and why this is a public health issue. The data was collected from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), which collects state-specific, population-based data on maternal attitudes and experiences before, during, and shortly after pregnancy.
Trends in the Prevalence of Sexual Behaviors, 1991-2009
The National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (NYRBS) monitors priority health risk behaviors that contribute to health and social problems among youth and young adults. This report shows trends, from the data gathered from NYRBS, in sexual behavior among youth and young adults from 1991 to 2009.
Report: Preterm Births among Teens
This report illustrates the percentage of births among teens that were preterm, organized by race and ethnicity. Preterm births declined for each racial/ethnic group, except among non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander teens, where the change was not significant. In 2014, the percentage of births that were preterm was higher among non-Hispanic black and non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander teens than among other groups.
Report: Effects of Maternal Age and Age-Specific Preterm Birth Rates on Overall Preterm Birth Rates
This report highlights recent data that show, from 2007 to 2014, the preterm birth rate decreased for all age groups, and the overall birth rate for teens and women aged 20-24 years also decreased. The changing distribution of maternal age might indicate success of programs to prevent teen and unintended pregnancies.
Report: Suicide Rates for Teens Aged 15–19 Years, by Sex — United States, 1975–2015
This data snapshot describes teen suicide rates between 1975 and 2015 and the difference in suicide rates by sex. Overall, suicide rates for both male and female teens increased during the study period.
Resource: Preventing Suicide: A Technical Package of Policy, Programs, and Practices
This technical package (PDF, 62 pages) describes seven science-based strategies that communities and states can use in their suicide prevention efforts. These strategies include: strengthening economic supports, strengthening access and delivery of suicide care, creating protective environments, promoting connectedness, teaching coping and problem-solving skills, identifying and supporting people at risk, and lessening harms and preventing future risk.