[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR664.460]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 664--YOUTH ACTIVITIES UNDER TITLE I OF THE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT--Table of Contents
 
        Subpart D--Youth Program Design, Elements, and Parameters
 
Sec. 664.460  What are work experiences for youth?

    (a) Work experiences are planned, structured learning experiences 
that take place in a workplace for a limited period of time. As provided 
in WIA section 129(c)(2)(D) and Sec. 664.470, work experiences may be 
paid or unpaid.
    (b) Work experience workplaces may be in the private, for-profit 
sector; the non-profit sector; or the public sector.
    (c) Work experiences are designed to enable youth to gain exposure 
to the working world and its requirements. Work experiences are 
appropriate and desirable activities for many youth throughout the year. 
Work experiences should help youth acquire the personal attributes, 
knowledge, and skills needed to obtain a job and advance in employment. 
The purpose is to provide the youth participant with the opportunities 
for career exploration and skill development and is not to benefit the 
employer, although the employer may, in fact, benefit from the 
activities performed by the youth. Work experiences may be subsidized or 
unsubsidized and may include the following elements:
    (1) Instruction in employability skills or generic workplace skills 
such as those identified by the Secretary's Commission on Achieving 
Necessary Skills (SCANS);
    (2) Exposure to various aspects of an industry;
    (3) Progressively more complex tasks;
    (4) Internships and job shadowing;
    (5) The integration of basic academic skills into work activities;
    (6) Supported work, work adjustment, and other transition 
activities;
    (7) Entrepreneurship;
    (8) Service learning;
    (9) Paid and unpaid community service; and
    (10) Other elements designed to achieve the goals of work 
experiences.
    (d) In most cases, on-the-job training is not an appropriate work 
experiences activity for youth participants under age 18. Local program 
operators may choose, however, to use this service strategy for eligible 
youth when it is appropriate based on the needs identified by the 
objective assessment of an

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individual youth participant. (WIA sec. 129(c)(2)(D).)