FACE Programs & Services
This critical workforce program helps develop and support youth who are between the ages of 16 and 24, currently in school, and who reside in the City & County of Denver. Youth have access to the following 10 elements:
Tutoring
Alternative secondary school support
Summer employment
Work experience
Skills training
Leadership development
Supportive services
Adult mentoring
Comprehensive counseling
Follow-up services.
This program helps create opportunities for youth, community partners and our city by investing in our youth’s workforce skills and abilities especially around finding a job with a livable wage and building a sustainable future. Our Program Specialists understand the struggles that some of our youth face every day, and our team develops and maintains meaningful relationships to better support their needs and goals as defined by them and supported by our staff.
Denver’s in-school youth program is designed to help build engagement and confidence, help youth graduate on time, identify future education or career pathways and opportunities and leverage the available resources that can eliminate barriers to employment and self-sufficiency.
WIOA is a program available to all youth that meet eligibility requirements in the local area (in this case Denver County), however, the DPS FACE model offers services targeted out of strategic schools to cover the regions of Denver. At this time these schools include:
Each school has a Program Specialist providing services out of that location, inclusive of a multi-generation approach in coordination with our FACE Centers. We currently operate with 5 Program Specialists that coordinated services for WIOA as well as the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP).