Hispanic Youth Employment Guidebook: Local Government Approaches Using Public-private Partnerships

This guidebook was developed as an aid to communities seeking to create partnerships between public and private sector sources to reduce the youth unemployment among Hispanics. The International City Management Association (ICMA), as part of a project sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services, identifies six model ventures using the partnership approach and this guidebook is, in part, a report on these projects. The communities that participated were in New Mexico, California, and Florida. One section discusses characteristics of the Hispanic youth unemployment problems, with a history of Hispanics in the United States, demographics on the group, and the various barriers to employment. Another covers the general concept of public and private partnerships with specific reference to the Jobs Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Each of the six successful communities' programs are described, including information on funding, innovative approaches, problems, and points which were especially successful and which could be transferred to other communities. Finally, the peer matching component of the program in which two successful programs were matched with two communities wanting to initiate similar projects is described. Appended are an annotated list of national organizations dealing with youth unemployment and a list of local Hispanic employment organizations arranged by state. A bibliography of four pages is provided. (CG)