Private sector employers must be willing to contribute to the youth's long-term employment through activities such as mentoring, providing occupational skills or employment after training or school completion. Training activities may last from 4 to 20 weeks. It is planned that approximately 765 youth will be served in the STEP projects. Those targeted for services include females, minorities, welfare recipients, and disabled. The Coosa Valley RDC follows detailed instructions developed by the Georgia Department of Labor to determine eligibility.
All information provided by the applicant is verified by an outside source.
Eligible applicants are referred by the RDC intake staff to training contractors for assessment and selection. Training contractors assess the educational and support service needs of the youth and then make the final selection of program participants. The training contractor uses a case management approach to obtained identified service needs from either JTPA or non-JTPA resources. The intake staff is accessible to sites throughout the area. Although they are not JTPA funds, WtW funds are targeted for one segment of the JTPA population.