Youth Options Unlimited
Activities and Outcomes
Youth Options Unlimited provides three main areas of services to court-involved youth:
  • Intake, assessment, and case management
  • On-site (or referral to) Alternative Education program (GED or Diploma)
  • Employment Services - including YOU's transitional employment programs which provide direct stipends to participants for community service work as well as preparation for and placement into unsubsidized, private sector employment
    		•
    Demographics and Characteristics of Boston Youth Served
    Ages: 14 to 24

    Race/Ethnicity:
  • 84% Black (includes African-American; Caribbean-American; and Cape Verdean)
  • 14% Latino
  • 2% Caucasian
  • 1% Asian


    • Gender:
  • Male 80% Female 20%

    • 75% identify themselves as gang-involved or affiliated
    65% test at 6th grade or below reading levels at intake
    Since July 2006
  • Case Management Services
    		•  632 youth
    (**includes follow-up services; new enrollments=103)
  • Education Services
    		•  118 youth
    (65 - GED; Alt Ed - 18; College - 1;
    Returned to HS -11;voc training-4; career exploration-1)
  • Employment Services
    		•  718 youth
  • 2006 Summer Jobs participants
    		•  178
  • Winter Jobs participants
    		•  68
  • Bridge employment program participants
    		•  48
  • Unsubsidized job placements
    		•  59
  • 2007 Summer Jobs participants
    		•  227
  • 2007 Summer Vocational program
    		•  28
  • 2007-2008 Individual Placements
    		•  24
  • 2007-2008 Preplacement program
    		•  slots fulfilled 47


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