FY2018 - 

• from Community Needs Survey 2016
  
  • Opiod crisis/substance abuse prevalence 
  • lack of jobs/lack of vocational training
  • Although low unemployment; jobs not matched to skill set of youth
  • Life skills - lack of
  • Insufficient transitional programs
  • Insufficient services for older youth
  • Lack of affordable housing
• Focus on college bound vs. other post secondary options
• Alternative options for HS completion not accessible - e.g. raised age of drop out.
• Gang related activity

Transportaion Partners:

• Transit
• Taxis
• County and City Planning Departments

Homeless

• Business Community
• Faith-Based Community

Most off the wall idea:

Transportation: Encourage youth to consider taking jobs that are close to where they live so they can walk and bike to work; take a skateboard to work.

Homeless: Use Winchester Hall and the Fire Departments as open buildings for shelters when they are not operating.

1. Transportatino: Shuttles from outer areas into the work hubs
2. Homeless: Coordinate the business community with the faith-based community; if faith-based community vouches for homeless youth to businesses they may be more likely to hire them.

Indicator: Youth Not in School and Not Working (% ages 16-24)
Definition: The percentage of the population ages 16 to 24 who are not enrolled in school and who are not working (either unemployed or not in the labor force).
Source: Measure of America analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey PUMS Microdata (http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml) and custom tabulations for county and county equivalents provided by special arrangement with the U.S. Census Bureau.