Career Navigation Program

A Career Development Training Program for Youth

Overview

Career Navigation supports positive youth development by providing work readiness and employment opportunities. DYS-involved youth are learning career readiness skills as they transition back to their community and attain the necessary skills to find a job.

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Impact Numbers

Youth Participated in FY21

Of Them Received an Employment Experience

Resources

Access and Justice, Youth Advancement

2019-2020 Grantee Handbook Leadership, Employment, and Advocacy Development (L.E.A.D) Initiative

The Department of Youth Services is the juvenile justice agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The L.E.A.D grant program has supported innovative transition and re-entry programming for youth ever since 2006. Commonwealth Corporation, the state’s quasi-public workforce development agency, serves as the program administrator for these funds. CommCorp and the DYS are providing grant funding for workforce development and employment during 2019-2020. These grant awards are the result of competitive procurement. Selected grantees will deliver a range of career development, work readiness, subsidized employment, and related services for youth in the care of DYS.

Access and Justice, Youth Advancement

Department of Youth Services Briefing Fact Sheet

As the juvenile justice agency for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Department of Youth Services promotes positive change in the youth in our care and custody. Our mission is to make communities safer by improving the life outcomes for youth in our care. We achieve our mission through investing in highly qualified staff and a service continuum that engages youth, families, and communities in strategies that support positive youth development. DYS serves youth between the ages of 12-21 who have been committed to its care and custody by the courts, referred by the police upon arrest, and youth previously committed to its custody who choose to engage in voluntary services with DYS (Youth Engaged in Services or YES).