Program participants must meet the following admission requirements:
- Voluntarily agree to participate.
- 15-½ to 18 years old, specifically:
- 15-½ year old applicants must turn 16 years old by the published graduation date.
- 18 year old applicants may turn 19 years old after completion of the initial two-week Acclimation Phase.
- A high school dropout, or at risk of dropping out, due to credit deficiency or other risk factors.
- Citizen or legal resident of the United States and the State of Idaho.
- Unemployed or underemployed.
- Not currently on parole or probation for other than juvenile offenses, not awaiting sentencing, and not under indictment, charged, or convicted of a felony.
- Drug-Free, upon enrollment.
- Physically and mentally capable to participate in the program. (Reasonable accommodations will be made for identified disabilities. Injuries that require time to heal are not “disabilities.”)
NOTE: These eligibility requirements are established by the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program office in Washington D.C. and the Idaho State Legislature. As such, we are not able to override or issue waivers for any of the above requirements.