This report profiles the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Escalera Program: Taking Steps to Success, a Latino-serving, community-based youth workforce development program, which was developed in 2001 in partnership with the PepsiCo Foundation and PepsiCo, Inc. and expanded in 2008 with the support of Shell Oil Company. The Escalera Program: Taking Steps to Success provides positive youth development services through an after-school model for Latino youth ages 15-24. The program promotes economic mobility through educational attainment, career planning, and access to information about advanced careers, with the ultimate goal of closing the economic gap for Latinos by increasing the number of highly skilled and educated Latino youth and the ability of Hispanic CBOs to cultivate the talent pipeline. Documenting the successes and challenges of three sites that have customized the program to meet their local needs, the report offers insight into how the Escalera Program improves academic and employment outcomes for disconnected youth, and it makes recommendations for policy and programmatic improvements. (Contains 30 endnotes.) [Funding for this paper was provided by the PepsiCo Foundation and Shell Oil Company.]