To provide at-risk and disconnected youth with subsidized summer and year-round employment and to assist local community partnerships in improving high school graduation and youth employment rates, and for other purposes.
Opening Doors for Youth Act of 2017
This bill requires the Department of Labor to provide funding to states for the development or expansion of summer and year-round youth employment programs that: (1) match youth participants with appropriate employers for high-quality employment opportunities; and (2) provide work-readiness training and educational programs, coaching and mentoring, career and college planning services, financial literacy education, and supportive services.
In addition, Labor must award grants to assist community partnerships in improving high school graduation and youth employment rates.
The bill establishes labor standards, performance accountability measures, and reporting requirements with respect to each of these new programs.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5069)
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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