Youth Council

As a requirement for receiving federal job training monies, the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) stipulates that each local Workforce Investment Board (WIB) establish a Youth Council as a committee of the WIB.

The purpose of the Youth Council is to provide expertise in youth workforce development policy and assist the local WIB to:

• Develop and recommend local youth workforce policy and funding
• Broaden employment and training policy to incorporate youth development
• Establish linkages with other organizations serving youth
• Evaluate a range of issues that impact young people’s success in the labor market

Both the Workforce Investment Board and the Youth Council are staffed by the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, which is charged with coordinating and centralizing the youth and adult workforce systems in San Francisco.

Following a year-long strategic planning process involving dozens of community stakeholders, the Youth Council adopted the following vision to guide its work:

Our vision is that San Francisco offers a comprehensive and coordinated system of care, which provides a continuum of quality services to ensure that all youth are equipped with the skills, knowledge and abilities to prepare them for successful employment, academic and life choices by age 25.

The Youth Council and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development will use this vision in conjunction with a series of primary and supportive strategies to guide its work for 2009. 

For more information about the Youth Council please contact the Youth Council Board Secretary, Monique Forster at 415-581-2335 or by email: workforce.development@sfgov.org. Thank you!