---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 681.450"
title: "20"
number: "681.450"
heading: "For how long must a local Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act youth program serve a participant?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/681.450"
---

# §681.450. For how long must a local Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act youth program serve a participant?


Local youth programs must provide service to a participant for the amount of time necessary to ensure successful preparation to enter postsecondary education and/or unsubsidized employment. While there is no minimum or maximum time a youth can participate in the WIOA youth program, programs must link participation to the individual service strategy and not the timing of youth service provider contracts or program years.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 107, 121, 123, 129, 189, 503, Pub. L. 113-128, 128 Stat. 1425 (Jul. 22, 2014).

### Source

Source: 81 FR 56398, Aug. 19, 2016, unless otherwise noted.