The Impact Evaluation of the
YouthBuild Program is a seven-year,experimental design evaluation,
funded by the Department's Employment and Training Administration
and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).
YouthBuild is a youth and community development program that
addresses several core issues facing low-income communities: Youth
education, employment, criminal behavior, social and emotional
development and affordable housing. The program primarily serves
high school dropouts and focuses on helping them attain a high
school diploma or general educational development certificate, and
teaching them construction skills geared toward career placement.
The evaluation of Youthbuild programs represents an important
opportunity for DOL and CNCS to add to the growing body of
knowledge about the impacts of "second chance" programs for youth
who have dropped out of high school. Compared to peers who remain
in school, high school dropouts are more likely to be disconnected
from school and work, be incarcerated, be unmarried, and have
children outside of marriage. The target population for the
program, and correspondingly the study, is out-of-school youth,
aged 1624, from low income families or in foster care and who are
offenders, migrants, disabled or children of incarcerated
parents.
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