4. Description: Job Corps provides a residential rehabilitation program for disadvantaged youth whose home or community environment is so culturally deprived that it inhibits success in other training activities, or who are located in rural or other areas where work and training opportunities are not available. Services include: vocational training, basic education, counseling, personal and cultural developments, recreational activities, and work experience training. The law limits enrollment to those between the ages of 14 through 21. As a matter of operating practice, Job Corps enrolls only youth 16 through 21.

6. NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS, IN-SCHOOL AND SUMMER

1. Program: NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS. In-School and Summer

4. Description: The Neighborhood Youth Corps In-School and Summer Programs assist disadvantaged students of high school age to remain in school by providing them part-time jobs during the school year and summer. Projects are sponsored by State and local public non-profit agencies, public schools and community action agencies. Enrollees work an average of 26 hours a week during the summer and 8 to 15 hours a week during the school year. Work assignments are typically connected with the school and other public agencies. Federal funds are used primarily to pay enrollees the hourly Federal minimum wage or the prevailing wage if it is higher. In addition, the funds are used to provide counseling, remedial education, skill-training and other supportive services.

7. NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS, OUT-OF-SCHOOL

1. Program: NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS

OUT-OF-SCHOOL

2. Authorizing Legislation: EOA Title I-B

3. Administering Agency: Department of Labor

4. Description: The Out-of-School program provides high school dropouts 16 and 17 years old and other low-income youth with remedial education, vocational training, supportive services and work experience to prepare them for subsidized employment in the public and private sectors of our economy. Out-of-School projects operate under one of two programs designs: the original design (NYC-1) in small communities and rural areas or the redesign (NYC-2) in Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas and growth areas.

8. OPERATION MAINSTREAM

1. Program: OPERATION MAINSTREAM

2. Authorizing Legislation:

EOA Title I-B and Title I-E

3. Administering Agency: Department of Labor

4. Description: Operation Mainstream is designed to provide jobs for poor adults, especially in rural areas. Although the program is for adults 22 years of age and older, special emphasis is placed on enrolling persons 55 years of age and older. Participants work on projects such as renovation of public recreation areas, the building of vestpocket parks, and the improvement of homes for welfare recipients and the elderly poor.

9. CONCENTRATED EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM

1. Program: CONCENTRATED EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM (CEP)

2. Authorizing Legislation:

MDTA/EOA

3. Administering Agency: Department of Labor

4. Description: The Concentrated Employment Program (CEP) provides for the delivery of a comprehensive array of manpower and supportive services to the disadvantaged residents of 82 special target areas that suffer from especially high unemployment and underemployment. Thirteen of the 82 target areas are rural, the balance are inner city neighborhoods.