is statewide in each State, it might also be used to track youth who migrate between areas. This system can also be used to track programmatic activity and provide an information base to assess the effectiveness of services. Those elements pursued by the information and tracking system would include services received, employment plans and levels of achievement reached.

A number of States currently have on-line systems in place and could begin operations immediately. Other States are at a developmental point in their systems. These States could be sites for demonstration projects to test enhancements of information systems. Other States could expand incrementally on the experience of both the operational and demonstration States. Employment Security agencies can act as coordinators of program information through the nationwide network of local offices. This will provide at least one point in each community to which youth or other agencies can go to find information regarding services and programs available. This community information system can be initiated as soon as resources are available to support it. It can begin as a manual filing system and, later, be automated through adaptations of existing systems, in large States where that is appropriate. The development of a comprehensive information and tracking system can be a major advancement in the coordination of services to youth.

Summation

The need for employment and training services for youth has been well documented. This has led to a number of new youth employment and training programs during the past ten years. What is currently needed is a way of coordinating these services so that:

Services can be provided most effectively to those in need of them;

Program participants can see a step-by-step path leading to career employment;`

The many agencies involved in providing services do so in a coordinated manner;

There is comprehensive employment and training information available in every community to youth desiring employment services.

It is also extremely important to increase the services to general population youth since any youth is at a disadvantage when trying to find a job in today's job market.

The ideas presented in this paper would go a long way in coordinating current services and providing additional services. However, none of the ideas presented here are new. Somewhere in the nation, each exists as an effective program of the Employment Service due to demonstration funding, the interest of an Employment Service manager, the involvement of a CETA Prime Sponsor, or a community dedicated to seeing that their youth receive better than the average fare. What is not needed is an emphasis on newness which will cause energy and resources to be directed to "re-inventing the wheel." What is needed is a legislative initiative which will provide for the expansion of successful programs and aspects of programs to all geographical areas of our nation and all sectors of our society.

ICESA,

March 12, 1980

Senator NELSON. It is not really clear to me exactly what you are referring to when you talk about a tracking system.

Mr. VERCHEREAU. My name is Stuart Verchereau of the Vermont Job Service. What this system would do is provide us a method of keeping track of the services provided, the employment plan for each young person, and what their goals were and what they had received for services from other deliverers. We would have, in one place, a complete history, if you want to call it, of the individual's record to date. This could be used both for the individual in planning his/her employment and also for planning other programs. Senator NELSON. Well, when do you start to use this tracking system? When they leave school?

Mr. VERCHEREAU. It would be coupled with what schools already have going. It would pull several systems together. Other deliverers have their own tracking system that only tracks youth while they are in that component. For example, the school, or maybe CETA or the job service may track the young person for a short time. This would incorporate all of them into one system.

Senator NELSON. Until job placement?

Mr. VERCHEREAU. Yes. It would follow them through to employment.

Senator NELSON. And that ordinarily would be what span of time?

Mr. VERCHEREAU. It would vary on an individual basis.
Senator NELSON. But do you not have any idea?

Mr. VERCHEREAU. One of the things we are pointing out here is that we call this employment rather than work. We like to think of tracking as following youth until the individual is in their first career job. Taking part-time or summer time employment, would not end tracking for young workers still developing career choices. And a part of the process would be part-time jobs. That would be a part of the record; the fact that they worked on an exploration basis here and there, and so on and so forth. It would be part of their record. And it also would spell out that the individual had completed certain courses.

Senator NELSON. And how would you set that up? You would take everyone who leaves high school?

Mr. VERCHEREAU. For those areas that the job service would have the funds to serve in this program, yes.

Senator NELSON. OK. Go ahead.

Mr. DAVID. Senator, job service is ready, willing and able to join together with the schools and other youth serving agencies in creating effective delivery systems to put youth into jobs in the private sector. We know we have an important contribution to make. We only need the opportunity to do it. In order to make a significant start in improving the transition of youth into successful employment, the job service is requesting $150 million for fiscal year 1981.

These funds would enable us to get underway in each State, building on the successful demonstrations and pilots scattered around the Nation. The second year, we propose an appropriation of $250 million. Priority for the establishment of these special youth services would be given to youth living in areas of high incidence of disadvantaged and minority unemployed youth. Our

current efforts to provide job placement and other basic employment services would be maintained. New moneys would be for the development and provision of the services that I have described to you today.

We propose an allocation of 80 percent of the resources based upon two factors, first, the number of youth aged 16 through 21, and second, the annual average number of these youth unemployed. The remaining 20 percent of the funds would be allocated to fund the job service for joint cooperative programs and projects involving schools and/or CETA agencies and/or other appropriate youth serving agencies. Finally, we propose that these youth services be judged on the basis of successfully moving unemployed youth into suitable jobs.

Mr. Chairman, we appreciate the opportunity to present our thinking on this issue, an issue which is so important to the welfare of our youth and to our Nation. My associates and I will be happy to answer any questions which you or the committee may have.

Senator NELSON. Thank you very much. Does anyone else have testimony to give?

[No response.]

I understand that Mr. Larry Lockhart, CETA administrator, Union County, N.J., has arrived.

STATEMENT OF LARRY J. LOCKHART, CETA ADMINISTRATOR, UNION COUNTY, N.J.

Mr. LOCKHART. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Senator NELSON. Your statement will be printed in full in the record. You may present it however you desire.

Mr. LOCKHART. Thank you very much, Senator. My name is Larry Lockhart. I am the director of the Union County Department of Human Resources. I am representing the county manager, Mr. George Albanese this morning.

As you know, Union County, N.J., has been designated one of the test sites for welfare reform, affectionately called in Union County. Our particular demonstration project is testing the viability and replication of the framework designed to simultaneously reduce the dependency of the welfare population in our county; reduce permanently the cost of providing welfare to citizens in our county; provide job search, supporting services and job placement within the private sector to the welfare population who possess employable skills; and also provide training for those individuals that have historically been unemployed.

The central focus is to use the instrument of jobs training to eliminate welfare dependency. I think this is a very critical process in dealing with the overall comprehensive approach to providing a system that will provide quality and quantitative information on what our dollars are being used for and to what degree we are receiving a reward for those citizens in our county that are not on welfare and ask the question many times for what reason are we spending these millions of dollars.

It is time that the process dictate a response to those taxpayers that will provide them with a monetary reward in reduction of taxes in our local municipalities.