The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a plan on Tuesday that seeks to reduce the number of “disconnected” youth in the county, especially foster youth and formerly incarcerated young people.
The goal of the regional effort is to improve the educational, workforce, housing and well-being outcomes of youth ages 16 to 24. According to a recent report, about one in every six young people in Los Angeles County is not enrolled in school and are not working. That’s about 207,440 young people in total.
By 2018, all youth exiting juvenile detention camps overseen by the Probation Department would be enrolled in regional YouthSource Centers or American’s Job Center of California prior to release.
You can read the full Los Angeles Performance Partnership Pilot 2017-2020 Strategic Plan Serving Disconnected Youth here.
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