Summarizing the first eight months of the planning, design, and implementation of the new federal youth programs created by the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA) and the efforts for expansion and enrichment of the Job Corps, this report explains the charters of the two projects and their initial successes in and projections for meeting their goals. For YEPDA ten principles are specified: knowledge development; work experience; youth involvement; targeting resources on areas of greatest need; substitution prevention; control of overhead; institutional change (improving the linkages between education and employment and training systems); delivery agents; coordination of local and federal planning efforts; and rapid implementation. In the Job Corps' charter eight missions are identified: expansion of the program; maintaining and improving performance; need for new approaches; recruitment; placement; linkages with community groups and institutions; community involvement; and monitoring and evaluation. Innovations in the Job Corps' program are separated into three types: (1) special efforts devoted to target groups of the greatest need; (2) industry work experience; and (3) alternative delivery agents such as community-based organizations and labor unions. From efforts to fulfill the objectives of the two charters, this report indicates that knowledge of youth problems and programs is being expanded, that many demonstration projects and experiments are being undertaken, that important linkages are being formed, and that, overall, youth is benefiting from greater employment and improved services. (ELG)