Positive Factors:

• Allegany College of Maryland provides on-site childcare (Early Head Start and Head Start on site); center for non-traditional students; skill building
  
  • Embraced Mental Health First Aid
  • Work experience is provided in addition to education
  • working with DSS for folks who are on TCA (Temporary Cash Assistance)
• Supportive relationships particularly during tragedies people come together

Negative Factors:

• Substance abuse culture:  kids grow up seeing people using abuse; has become the norm; 
• Not enough child care available;  comes up on every community survey; HRDC is the only center that provides child care for very young children; night and weekend child care is not available; Lots of parents need child care for shift work.

Indicator: Youth Not in School and Not Working (% ages 16-24)

Definition: The percentage of the population ages 16 to 24 who are not enrolled in school and who are not working (either unemployed or not in the labor force).
Source: Measure of America analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey PUMS Microdata (http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml) and custom tabulations for county and county equivalents provided by special arrangement with the U.S. Census Bureau.