§3191 — Title 29 Labor | U.S. Code

Summary

Keep a national Job Corps program run with States and communities to help eligible young people get into the workforce. It must give them strong social support, school, career and technical training, and service-learning, mainly in residential centers, so they can earn a high school diploma or a recognized postsecondary credential that leads either to good jobs in high‑need industries or the Armed Forces (so they can support themselves and move up) or to more education, including apprenticeships. The program must also promote responsible citizenship. The law also requires rules for choosing enrollees, allows the opening of Job Corps centers for this training, and gives the powers and duties needed to run and improve the program.

Title 29, §3191

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The purposes of this part are—

(1)to maintain a national Job Corps program, carried out in partnership with States and communities, to—

(A)assist eligible youth to connect to the labor force by providing them with intensive social, academic, career and technical education, and service-learning opportunities, in primarily residential centers, in order for such youth to obtain secondary school diplomas or recognized postsecondary credentials leading to—

(i)successful careers, in in-demand industry sectors or occupations or the Armed Forces, that will result in economic self-sufficiency and opportunities for advancement; or

(ii)enrollment in postsecondary education, including an apprenticeship program; and

(B)support responsible citizenship;

(2)to set forth standards and procedures for selecting individuals as enrollees in the Job Corps;

(3)to authorize the establishment of Job Corps centers in which enrollees will participate in intensive programs of activities described in this part; and

(4)to prescribe various other powers, duties, and responsibilities incident to the operation and continuing development of the Job Corps.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective on the first day of the first full program year after

July 22, 2014 (

July 1, 2015), see section 506 of Pub. L. 113–128, set out as a note under section 3101 of this title.

§3191 Purposes

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Title 29, §3191

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