Iowa Comprehensive Human Services’ (ICHS) has for over 40 years helped disadvantaged youth graduate from high school and become employed.

This past year, the United States Government funded the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009” providing stimulus funds to operate a Summer Youth Employment and Training Program (SYETP). Eligible youth 14 through 24 years old participate in planned activities and paid work experiences. We anticipate, but can not guarantee the same program this year. We are encouraging youth to apply to start the planning process.

PROGRAM GOALS

The goal of SYETP is to provide youth with meaningful jobs in private/public/governmental/or private non-profit agencies which:

• Promote employability skills,
• Provide the opportunity for "hands-on" work experience in occupations of interest,
• Develop positive attitudes toward work; and
• Encourage youth to complete their secondary or post secondary education.
  
  

ELIGIBILITY

Participants must be 14 years old by January 1, 2010 but less than 25, meet the income guidelines (or be a member of a family receiving FIP, food stamps or SSI benefits) and meet one of the following criteria:

• Be deficient in the basic skills of math and/or reading,
  
• Have a disability that presents a significant barrier to employment, or
  
• Have a special circumstance such as foster care, an at-risk student, a dropout, a resident of a group home, pregnant or parenting, an offender, has a parent who is incarcerated, or homeless.
  
  

Contact: Cheryl Busby