Bill Text: NY A09598 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes a pilot program to provide job and vocational skills training to youth who have been adjudicated juvenile delinquents or juvenile offenders residing in a facility overseen by the office of children and family services.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-5)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-09 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [A09598 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A09598-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9598 IN ASSEMBLY March 21, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Children and Families AN ACT relating to the establishment of a pilot program to provide job and vocational skills training to youth who have been adjudicated juvenile delinquents or juvenile offenders residing in a facility overseen by the office of children and family services; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, 2 the department of labor, in consultation with the office of children and 3 family services shall conduct a pilot program to provide job and voca- 4 tional skills training to youth who have been adjudicated juvenile 5 delinquents or juvenile offenders under article 3 of the family court 6 act and who are residing in a facility overseen by the office of chil- 7 dren and family services as defined in section 504 or 504-a of the exec- 8 utive law. Such pilot program shall be conducted in three residential 9 facilities chosen by the office of children and family services. The 10 office of children and family services shall choose the three facilities 11 in which the pilot program will be conducted as considering factors 12 including, but not limited to, existing vocational and job skills train- 13 ing programs, the need for expansion of such programs, the average 14 length of stay, and age of youth at the specific facilities. Such pilot 15 program shall use a combination of integrated support services, educa- 16 tional, vocational and job skill training to provide youth with skills 17 needed to advance to higher levels of education and higher wage jobs in 18 growing occupational fields. Youth wishing to participate in such 19 program who are also attending school or are receiving educational 20 services within the facility, must be given an option to participate in 21 the program at a time that does not conflict with their school or educa- 22 tion schedule. 23 § 2. The name of any youth participating in the pilot program and any 24 other identifying information relating to the placement of such youth at 25 a residential facility, and his or her adjudication as a juvenile delin- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02224-04-6