Gregg Weltz
Chief
Division of Youth Services
Mr. Weltz has over 14 years of professional experience in the domestic and international youth development field including expertise in policy development and program implementation and management at both the local and national levels. Currently, Mr. Weltz serves as the Chief for the Department of Labor's Division of Youth Services. In this capacity Mr. Weltz oversees roughly $1 billion in Workforce Investment Act funds and the President's Prisoner Reentry Initiative. Mr. Weltz served in the Department of Labor's Office of Policy and was a key member of the 1998 legislative staff team responsible for developing the current national youth employment and training policy under the Workforce Investment Act. Mr. Weltz came to the federal government in 1997 as a Presidential Management Fellow. Mr. Weltz also has "front-line" youth development programming experience. He served for five years as Youth Program Director of a large community-based organization in Northern California, working with at-risk youth. In addition, he spent 18 months as a secondary school teacher in Zimbabwe. In 2002, Mr. Weltz was on loan from the Department of Labor to the United States Peace Corps as a youth employment expert where he conducted a global scan of youth employment programming both within and outside of the Peace Corps. Mr. Weltz also represents the United States government at various youth employment forums of the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Weltz has a Master of Management of Youth Services from Brandeis University's Heller School of Social Welfare.
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