%0 Journal Article
%T Jobs for Youth Program: An Intervention to Improve Transition Outcomes of Former Dropout Minority Youth
%A F. L. Fredrik G. Langi
%A Fabricio E. Balcazar
%A Jazmin Lara
%A Jessica Awsumb
%A Shawn Dimpfl
%J Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals
%@ 2165-1442
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2165143417747225
%X This study describes an intervention developed to implement several best transition practices with a high risk/high need population. In all, 116 students with disabilities from a charter school for dropouts participated. All students were interviewed at different points in time to track their progress as they completed the program. Records of participant¡¯s activities and outcomes were collected. Results suggest a positive impact on students¡¯ graduation rate (95%), enrollment in vocational rehabilitation (100%), proportion of students obtaining certificates for employment (56%), and paid internship (37%). Overall, 35% of the vocational rehabilitation cases were closed successfully with students meeting the 90-day employment requirement after graduation. Results inform future work on the implementation of interventions designed to help low-income minority youth with disabilities
%K transition intervention
%K transition outcomes
%K minority youth with disabilities
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2165143417747225