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055 <br /> Partnership Act program. These types of programs are provided when the <br /> sole purpose of the program is to perform one or more of these functions. <br /> Services only programs include participant assessment, job counseling, <br /> job search assistance, job clubs, job referral and supportive services <br /> designed to aid in job retention. <br /> Exemplary Youth Programs <br /> Youth training activities are for persons between the ages of 16 and <br /> 21 who have not attained a high school diploma or who have educational <br /> deficiencies despite the attainment of a diploma. The types of programs <br /> that can be offered under exemplary youth programs are as follows: <br /> Education for Employment provides for the maintenance of a network <br /> of learning centers offering approved course instruction at <br /> convenient locations. The Extended School Day program in the public <br /> schools and high school learning labs operating within local <br /> community colleges are examples of this type of program activity. <br /> Pre--Employment Skills Training is designed to offer up to two <br /> hundred hours of instruction to youth who do not meet established <br /> academic achievement levels and who plan to enter the labor market <br /> upon leaving school. This type of program may also serve 14 and 15 <br /> year olds who are students. This type of program may include <br /> assessment, career exploration, job skills training, remedial <br /> education and labor market information. <br /> Entry Employment Experience is designed to allow an individual <br /> the opportunity to work up to twenty hours a week while school <br /> is in session and full-time during the summer and holidays. Entry <br /> employment is restricted to public and private nonprofit agencies <br /> when operated as work experience. <br /> Tryout Employment allows students, who are enrolled in <br /> secondary education programs and who have not recently held a <br /> regular job, the opportunity to work at private-for-profit <br /> sites. JTPA will pay the participant compensation (no less than <br /> the minimum wage) for the hours worked. Tryout employment <br /> positions should be ones for which the participant would not <br /> usually be hired without special consideration. The employer <br /> should be willing to hire the participant at the completion of <br /> the tryout experience. The length of the tryout experience <br /> cannot exceed two hundred and fifty hours. <br /> Co-operative Education Programs coordinate educational programs <br /> with work in the private sector. <br /> School-to-Work Transition Programs are for high school seniors <br /> who plan to enter the full-time labor market upon graduation, <br /> and dropouts who recently left school. These programs provide <br /> occupational information, job clubs, and placement/follow-up <br /> services. <br /> 5 <br />