Oregon Youth Corps

Program Positions
  1. ​Championing community-driven programs that offer consistent and paid stewardship work for local youth.
  2. Promoting team-based programs that develop youth’s technical and essential employability skills.
  3. Providing resources and culturally responsive wrap around support to programs across Oregon that reach underserved and disconnected youth.
  4. Advancing the mission of youth development by collaborating with community, state, and federal partners to collect and provide data, share best practices and advocate for policy change.
  5. Aligning initiatives and fostering partnerships with workforce and talent development, education and training, and post-secondary systems.

Oregon Youth Corps is program housed within the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, Office of Workforce Investments.

Oregon Youth Corps receives funding from the Oregon Lottery and distributes those funds through grants to programs throughout the state. 

* Oregon Youth Corps grants funds to programs across Oregon that directly hire youth.