The Employment Services for Youth Offenders Project provides training and job placement services to youth, ages 16 to 21, involved in the justice system. Job training and placement focuses on high wage/high demand occupations. EDC provides technical assistance to project management and to partner organizations. EDC will develop a report that analyzes the barriers local employers confront when hiring adjudicated youth.
EDC Project Director: Joseph Ippolito
Duration: 2005–2007
Funder: U.S. Department of Labor
Partner: Cuyahoga Community College, Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry
(EDC is a subcontractor on this project to Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Department of Justice Affairs.)
