Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
After School Year Round Program

The WIA After School Program provides leadership training to 25 at-risk youth at Eastern Senior High School by serving as a catalyst to connect these youth with quality secondary and post-secondary educational opportunities and high-growth and other employment opportunities. Youth receive a variety of career and real-life experiences, academic enrichment, project-based learning, leadership development, and cultivate support systems that empower them to move towards self-sufficiency, post-secondary education, and/or unsubsidized employment.

Homeland Security Project
(Homeland Security)

The Homeland Security Project provides 40 youth ages 14-18 with training in CPR, First Aid and emergency preparedness. The youth participants then train their peers and community members on various emergency preparedness topics. The Homeland Security Project is also designed to address the educational and volunteer community service needs of our youth ranging from low-academic performance, high drop-out or risky behavior, narrow civic knowledge and community involvement, and/or other personal issues such as housing, peer pressure, sexuality, violence, etc.

Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP)

The WIA SYEP is designed to provide 75 youth with career awareness/exploration activities and gain work experience for 6 weeks during the summer. The program assists youth in making a smooth transition into the world of work. Youth visit worksites, participate in workshops and seminars, and give a presentation at the end of the program showing what they have accomplished over the summer. Youth are exposed to a plethora of careers and job opportunities within four employment sectors: federal government, district government, non-profits, and private industry.

Parent Advocacy Center (PAC)

The focus of the PAC is to assist parents and guardians of youth engaged in the juvenile justice system to navigate the juvenile justice system, to effectively represent their children, and to assist in the successful reentry into the neighborhood. Objectives of the PAC are to train parents and/or guardians to better understand the juvenile justice system, to empower parents and/or guardians to provide a positive support system for their youth so they will not reenter the juvenile justice system and, to develop networks of parents of children in the juvenile justice system so they can provide mutual support.

Additional information
(202) 675-0024
Fax: (202) 675-0031