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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
August 24, 1992
Youth Skills Initiative
FACT SHEET
The President announced today his Youth Skills Initiative,
a new strategy to prepare our Nation's non-college-bound youth
for success in the rapidly changing workplace. The President's
Youth Skills initiative consists of four major elements:
Youth Training Corps (YTC). A new residential and
non-residential training program for economically and
socially disadvantaged youth;
Treat and Train. A comprehensive youth drug
treatment program that will tie rehabilitation
together with the Youth Training Corps to ensure that
rehabilitated kids get the training needed for a new
start in life;
National Youth Apprenticeship Program. A
comprehensive school-to-work transition training
program for high school juniors and seniors.
Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC).
Doubling the size of the existing voluntary
instructional program for high school students that
emphasizes self-discipline, family and social values,
citizenship, and personal responsibility.
The Problem
Put simply, the United States needs an increasingly better
trained and skilled workforce for the remainder of this decade
and the next century. International competition, the expansion
of new and complex technologies into the workplace, and a
dynamic labor market require a well-trained and highly-skilled
work force. One of our greatest challenges in creating such a
work force is to facilitate the transition from school to work
for non-college-bound youth.
Of the students enrolled in the 11th and 12th grades this
fall, approximately 40 percent will not immediately go to
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college. Of those who do attend, half will fail to complete
their first year. Moreover, roughly one-fifth of American high
school students either drop out or do not complete high school
graduation requirements on schedule.
These young Americans need to acquire the vocational
training and workplace skills that will allow them to compete
successfully in the job marketplace.
The President's Proposal
In January, the President announced a comprehensive
initiative to streamline the Federal job training system
designed to implement "one-stop shopping" for job training in
every community. Building upon this concept, the President has
proposed a comprehensive plan to expand and improve job
training for non-college-bound youth.
The President's Youth Skills initiative consists of four
major elements:
Youth Training Corps (YTC)
The Youth Training Corps will provide economically and
socially disadvantaged youth with intensive vocational training
and workplace skills. This training will be combined with
community service and conservation work in rural areas and on
public lands.
The Youth Training Corps will create 25 new YTC
centers patterned after the Job Corps' 30 existing
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) centers to create a
total of 55 residential YTC centers nationwide.
These residential centers, located primarily in rural
areas, will utilize converted Department of Defense
facilities, where appropriate.
Hiring preference for YTC staff will be given to
individuals leaving military service. This will
allow the YTC to take advantage of the military's
high level of leadership and training expertise.
The President's proposal will add 29,600 new training
slots that will help 43,000 additional kids each
year. Of these additional slots:
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16,600 slots will be residential, located at the
25 new YTC centers.
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13,000 slots will be non-residential, located at
existing Job Corps centers.
The President's proposals will serve an additional
43,000 disadvantaged youths (ages 16 to 21) annually.
This will bring the total number of youths served
annually by both the YTC and Job Corps to 113,000.
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18,700 additional youths would be served at the
25 new YTC centers.
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24,300 additional youths would be served on a
non-residential basis at new or existing
centers.
The YTC will utilize an expanded Job Corps model,
relying on a combination of remedial education,
technical training, life-skills training, counseling
and other support services.
The YTC participants will spend an average of seven
months as a resident at the Youth Training Corps
center and receive both applied learning experiences
and basic job training.
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Participants will work to help improve parks,
recreation, or community facilities, and
public/low-income housing.
The YTC would have an initial, start-up cost of $200
million (FY 1994 and FY 1995), expanding to $385
million per year when fully in place.
Treat and Train Program
This initiative will strengthen existing youth drug
treatment programs and complement the Youth Training Corps.
The President's proposal will fund 10,000 new drug
treatment slots at intensive drug rehabilitation
centers.
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Two-thirds of the new slots will be residential.
Participants stay in the residential centers an
average 9 months.
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One-third of the new slots will be out-patient.
The President's proposal will serve an additional
28,000 youths annually, increasing the number served
by Federally-funded treatment by roughly 30 percent.
Successfully completing the treatment program will
give participants priority status for admission to
the Youth Training Corps (YTC).
The program will cost $150 million per year beginning
in FY 1994.
National Youth Apprenticeship Program
This initiative will substantially expand the President's
National Youth Apprenticeship Act of 1992, which was initiated
in January as a component of the Job Training 2000 proposal and
transmitted to the Congress in May.
This plan is a comprehensive, voluntary program for
high school juniors and seniors that combines
classroom instruction with a structured, paid, work
experience program.
The Department of Labor will provide community
organization funding, planning and curriculum design
using the current six-state demonstration program as
a model to expand the program to all 50 states.
Students who successfully complete the program
receive a high school diploma and a widely-recognized
certificate of skill competency. Students will also
have the opportunity to continue training at the
post-secondary level.
The Targeted Jobs Tax Credit will be available to
employers to cover participating students that meet
current TJTC economically disadvantaged eligibility
criteria.
The National Youth Apprenticeship program will cost
$100 million per year beginning in FY 1994. The TJTC
expansion will cost am estimated $10 million in FY
1994 and $160 million over 5 years.
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Jr. Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC)
This initiative will more than double the size of the
present JROTC program, a very successful and popular
partnership between the military services and the public and
private schools. JROTC emphasizes self-discipline, values,
citizenship, personal responsibility, and staying in school
among high school students, and provides an alternative to
drugs and gangs.
The President's proposal will add 1,500 new JROTC
units to the present 1,482 units, and will include as
many as 225,000 more high school students.
The program will emphasize increasing the number of
inner city high school JROTC programs initially, but
plans call for JROTC to be made available to every
high school across the country that requests it and
qualifies. The goal is to establish 2,900 units by
1994.
JROTC is a low-cost education program that provides
those who participate in it with positive incentives
to stay in school. Well-trained, highly motivated
former military personnel serve as instructors.
This initiative will provide job opportunities for
highly qualified personnel retiring from military
service.
The Department of Defense will help local school
systems absorb some of the costs for the new inner-
city school JROTC programs.