PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To increase the long-term employment of youth who livein empowerment zones, enterprise communities, and high poverty areas. Youth Opportunity Grants concentrate extensive resources in high- poverty areas in order to bring about community-wide impact on: Employment rates, high school completion rates, and college enrollment rates.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. EMPLOYMENT, LABOR, AND TRAINING;
- Program Development;
- Job Training, Employment;
- Assistance and Services for the Unemployed;

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- State;

WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);