Target Customer
Individuals from 16 to 24 years of age who are at risk of disconnection or are disconnected from the education system or employment, unhoused, in the child welfare, juvenile justice, or criminal legal systems, living in concentrated poverty, or are facing barriers to labor market participation. Opportunity youth include those that face chronic opportunity educational achievement gaps, attend schools in communities of concentrated poverty, or attend high schools with a negative school climate.
Purpose
The goal of California Opportunity Youth Apprenticeship (COYA) grant is to develop and test innovative practices to increase the participation of opportunity youth in pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs, and to demonstrate the impact of apprenticeship on employment and earnings outcomes for opportunity youth.
Eligible to Access Funding
- Nonprofit Community-Based Organizations
- Workforce Development Boards
- Unions
- Local Education Agencies
- Apprenticeship Intermediaries
- Apprenticeship Program Sponsors
