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Key Findings:

• Grantee staff reported that youth have a poor understanding of the accessibility and impactof their juvenile records on their future employment prospects, and the cost and complexityof the expungement process.
• Staff believe that educating youth and their families about these issues could improve take-up of these services.
• State policy requirements—particularly age of eligibility and required waiting periods—make it challenging for grantees to provide expungement services within a two-year grantperiod. Thus, grantees might have to refocus efforts on how to effectively position youth tostart expungement after program participation ends.
• Due to lengthy expungement processes and fewer youth meeting eligibility criteria thanexpected, as of December 2015, grantees have successfully expunged very few records.