WIA Youth Recovery Act Program Highlights

Participants in the WIA Youth Recovery Act Program were low-income and disconnected youth who lacked the academic and applied skills considered critical for current and future workplace needs.

Here is a brief profile of the youth served and a summary of the program's accomplishments in 2009:

• 6,749 Minnesota youth throughout the state were employed through the Formula funds
• 93 percent of participants successfully completed the program
• 94 percent reached a work-readiness skill attainment goal
• 30 percent were out-of-school youth
• 822 youth were employed beyond the summer months
• 47 percent were disabled
• 34 percent were youth of color
• 64 percent participated in leadership development training

An additional 465 youth were served with statewide discretionary dollars targeting hard-to-serve youth such as: foster youth, juvenile offenders, teen parents, homeless or runaway youth, gang-involved youth, Native American youth and youth with disabilities.