US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration/Vocational training
WIOA Youth Services
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Paid work experience, summer jobs, tutoring and mentoring for students aged 14 to 21 from low income families who face one of eight listed barriers. Run locally through your area's workforce board, and the paid work experience is the part most students do not know exists.
Services rather than a grant, and the regulation states no amount. Fourteen must be made available, including tutoring and dropout recovery, alternative school services, and paid work experience with summer employment. The work experience is paid, so this is not only advice.
Rolling, apply any time
What you need
The official page does not list required documents. Check the official page before you apply, since a provider can ask for paperwork it does not publish.
How to apply
- 1Find your local American Job Center or workforce boardThis is run locally, not nationally, and the local board decides who enrols. Ask for youth services and say your age, because the youth programme is separate from the adult one.
- 2Say if you receive free or reduced price school mealsThe regulation lets that stand in for the whole income test, so it can settle the part of eligibility that would otherwise need paperwork about your family's income.
Where this comes from
- Last checked by SCRN
- 2026-09-05Verified null days ago
- How it was verified
- Checked against the official page by a person at SCRN
- Source level
- Provider verifiedRead from the provider's own page.
- Deadline
- RollingNo national deadline. Enrolment runs through the year at your local workforce board, though summer employment places fill in the spring, so asking in winter is better than asking in June.
- How often
- annual