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Workforce Investment Act - Youth Activities

The program, which focuses on out-of-school youth, prepares America's neediest youth for a successful entry or transition into the workplace. The program awards formula grants to assist participants attain educational and skills training credentials, participate in postsecondary educational training, and secure employment.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program has improved oversight of grantees' use of federal funds. Federal project officers use the GEMS to track and document grant management activities, including on-site monitoring and technical assistance reviews.
  • Performance data quality remains a challenge. While DOL has implemented a data validation procedure designed to reduce errors in performance data reported by grantees, there is insufficient information to indicate whether the process has improved data quality.
  • Other Federal programs provide similar services to disadvantaged youth. DOL has jointly established the Shared Youth Vision Federal Partnership, a workgroup involving eight other Federal agencies, to improve coordination at the national, state and local levels.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Working with Congress to reform the Workforce Investment Act. Reforms will consolidate funding for related programs, reduce administrative overhead, increase States' flexibility to tailor services.
  • Adopting efficiency measures that are linked to performance outcomes, account for all costs, and facilitate comparisons across Department of Labor training and employment programs.
  • Strengthening the quality of youth performance data, specifically supplemental data and administrative records, through data validation.

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