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
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