Bill Text: CT SB00795 | 2015 | General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: An Act Concerning A Two-generational School Readiness And Workforce Development Pilot Program.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-06-02 - Disagreeing Action, Tabled for Calendar, Senate [SB00795 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2015-SB00795-Comm_Sub.html
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January Session, 2015 |
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AN ACT CONCERNING A TWO-GENERATIONAL SCHOOL READINESS AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PILOT PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2015) (a) The Labor Commissioner shall establish a two-generational school readiness and workforce development pilot program. The pilot program shall operate for two years and shall foster economic self-sufficiency in low-income households by delivering academic and job readiness support services across two generations in the same household. The pilot program shall be located in five communities and include not less than one community with fewer than fifty thousand persons that is served by a regional social services provider. The pilot program shall serve as a blueprint for a state-wide, two-generational school readiness and workforce development model.
(b) The pilot program shall be funded by state and private moneys and shall include:
(1) Early learning programs, adult education, child care, housing, job training and other related support services offered at one location, wherever possible;
(2) Development of a long-term plan to adopt a two-generational model for the delivery of the services described in subdivision (1) of this subsection on a state-wide basis. Such plan shall include, but not be limited to, (A) the targeted use of temporary family assistance program funds, to the extent permissible under federal law, to support two-generational programming, and (B) state grant incentives for private entities that develop such two-generational programming;
(3) Partnerships between state and national philanthropic organizations to enable state-wide replication and implementation of the program;
(4) A workforce liaison to gauge the needs of employers and households in each community and help coordinate the two-generational program to meet the needs of such employers and households; and
(5) The creation of an interagency work group to oversee the implementation of the program and the provision of services within the selected communities.
(c) The program shall be overseen by an interagency work group that includes the Commissioners of Social Services, Early Childhood, Education, Housing, Public Health and Correction and the Labor Commissioner. Coordinators of two-generational programs in each community in the pilot program shall report on a quarterly basis to the interagency work group. Not later than January 1, 2016, the interagency work group shall submit a report in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to human services and appropriations and the budgets of state agencies that details: (1) The number of persons served in the program; (2) the number of adults who have obtained jobs since receiving services from the program; (3) the number of children who have improved academically, including, but not limited to, (A) grade level increases, and (B) improvements in reading comprehension; (4) the number of adults who have received training or educational certificates or degrees since enrolling in the program; (5) the cost of the program in both state and private dollars; and (6) recommendations to expand the program to additional communities state wide.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
July 1, 2015 |
New section |
HS |
Joint Favorable C/R |
APP |
APP |
Joint Favorable Subst. |