This document is intended to help existing school-to-work (STW) partnerships and the new local work force investment boards understand the opportunities for achieving common ground to better serve youth during implementation of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and formation of the new youth councils. The following are among the topics discussed: (1) the WIA's youth provisions (roles and responsibilities of youth councils; youth council membership requirements; activities and services; performance indicators; services for out-of-school youth; services for youth aged 18-21); (2) issues of mutual concern in the School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA) and WIA youth provisions; (3) key issues for WIA youth implementation and potential support from the STWOA (defining youth-oriented work; building collaboration between youth councils and schools to improve the performance of WIA-eligible students; building year-round programs providing school year and summer activities; engaging employers and organized labor); (4) challenges to collaboration; and (5) early experiences connecting WIA youth and STW activities in selected sites (Sonoma County, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Brockton, Massachusetts; Manatee County, Florida; Waco, Texas). A 1999 memo titled "Guidance Regarding the Non-duplication Provision in the Workforce Investment Act" is appended, along with a core indicators crosswalk for selected provisions of pertinent federal legislation. (MN)