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Registration now open for Summer Youth Employment Program

Teens who meet the criteria and want to gain work experience during the summer months can start registering now for the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP), administered by the Department of Human Resources.

 

DHR’s Employment and Training Division has available limited slots for the SYEP, which serves “to provide academic, occupational skills and work experience for low income individuals with barriers to employment”.

 

Eligibility requires the applicant to be between 14 and 21 years old, unemployed, and economically disadvantaged. The schedule of registration dates for public and private high schools across the territory is printed in Samoa News.

 

Dates for Manu’a registrations are yet to be announced; however, the deadline to apply for Tutuila applicants is April 4.

 

Last year, 602 youth — in both Tutuila and Manu’a — participated in the 2014 Summer Youth Employment Program which lasted for eight weeks and saw the involvement of 43 government agencies and 86 businesses from the private sector.

 

The SYEP is funded by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) formula grant and last year, the Fono approved an additional $200,000 for it. In addition, there is money allotted in each government agency’s operation budget for the program.