Learning Skills, Building Futures.

Casto, James E.

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ERIC Number: EJ622018

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Publication Date: 2000

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Learning Skills, Building Futures.

Casto, James E.

Appalachia, v33 n3 p10-15 Sep-Dec 2000

Describes the YouthBuild program in Fayette County, West Virginia, a federally funded program administered locally by the Southern Appalachian Labor School. Participants are unemployed youths aged 16-24, mostly school dropouts, who alternate between 1 week of training in repairing and building houses and 1 week studying for a GED or preparing for postsecondary education. (TD)

Descriptors: Adult Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, High School Equivalency Programs, Housing, Job Training, Late Adolescents, Nonschool Educational Programs, Youth Programs

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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