§11279 — Title 34 Navy | U.S. Code

Summary

Defines key words used for programs that help runaway and homeless youth. "Drug abuse education and prevention services" means help to stop illegal drug use by runaway and homeless youth and can include counseling, drop-in help, rural outreach, training for service workers, and steps to make local prevention services more available. "Home-based services" are help given to youth and their families to keep kids from leaving or to help them come back, often delivered in the family home and including intensive counseling and life-skills or parenting training. "Homeless" describes a youth who meets specific age rules (generally under 21; for shelter centers under part A, under 18 unless a State allows a higher age that meets licensing rules; and for part B, at least 16 and either under 22, or 22 or older only as of the end of a permitted stay that began before the youth turned 22 under section 11222(a)(2)) and who cannot live safely with a relative and has no other safe place to live. "Runaway" means a person under 18 who leaves home without a parent’s or guardian’s permission. "Street-based services" are services given where youth hang out to help them make safer choices and may include outreach, crisis counseling, housing and health referrals, and prevention and education about drugs, sexual exploitation, STDs (including HIV), and assault. "Street youth" means a runaway or a youth who is homeless sometimes and who spends a lot of time on the street or in risky places that raise the chance of sexual abuse, exploitation, prostitution, or drug problems. "Transitional living youth project" means a program that provides shelter and services to help youth move toward independent, self-sufficient living and avoid long-term reliance on social services. "Youth at risk of separation from the family" means someone under 18 who has run away before, whose parent or guardian will not meet basic needs, or who may enter the child welfare or juvenile justice system because the family lacks needed services.

Title 34, §11279

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In this subchapter:

(1)The term “drug abuse education and prevention services”—

(A)means services to runaway and homeless youth to prevent or reduce the illicit use of drugs by such youth; and

(B)may include—

(i)individual, family, group, and peer counseling;

(ii)drop-in services;

(iii)assistance to runaway and homeless youth in rural areas (including the development of community support groups);

(iv)information and training relating to the illicit use of drugs by runaway and homeless youth, to individuals involved in providing services to such youth; and

(v)activities to improve the availability of local drug abuse prevention services to runaway and homeless youth.

(2)The term “home-based services”—

(A)means services provided to youth and their families for the purpose of—

(i)preventing such youth from running away, or otherwise becoming separated, from their families; and

(ii)assisting runaway youth to return to their families; and

(B)includes services that are provided in the residences of families (to the extent practicable), including—

(i)intensive individual and family counseling; and

(ii)training relating to life skills and parenting.

(3)The term “homeless”, used with respect to a youth, means an individual—

(A)who is—

(i)less than 21 years of age, or, in the case of a youth seeking shelter in a center under part A, less than 18 years of age, or is less than a higher maximum age if the State where the center is located has an applicable State or local law (including a regulation) that permits such higher maximum age in compliance with licensure requirements for child-and youth-serving 11 So in original. facilities; and

(ii)for the purposes of part B, not less than 16 years of age and either—

(I)less than 22 years of age; or

(II)not less than 22 years of age, as of the expiration of the maximum period of stay permitted under section 11222(a)(2) of this title if such individual commences such stay before reaching 22 years of age;

(B)for whom it is not possible to live in a safe environment with a relative; and

(C)who has no other safe alternative living arrangement.

(4)The term “runaway”, used with respect to a youth, means an individual who is less than 18 years of age and who absents himself or herself from home or a place of legal residence without the permission of a parent or legal guardian.

(5)The term “street-based services”—

(A)means services provided to runaway and homeless youth, and street youth, in areas where they congregate, designed to assist such youth in making healthy personal choices regarding where they live and how they behave; and

(B)may include—

(i)identification of and outreach to runaway and homeless youth, and street youth;

(ii)crisis intervention and counseling;

(iii)information and referral for housing;

(iv)information and referral for transitional living and health care services;

(v)advocacy, education, and prevention services related to—

(I)alcohol and drug abuse;

(II)sexual exploitation;

(III)sexually transmitted diseases, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); and

(IV)physical and sexual assault.

(6)The term “street youth” means an individual who—

(A)is—

(i)a runaway youth; or

(ii)indefinitely or intermittently a homeless youth; and

(B)spends a significant amount of time on the street or in other areas that increase the risk to such youth for sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, prostitution, or drug abuse.

(7)The term “transitional living youth project” means a project that provides shelter and services designed to promote a transition to self-sufficient living and to prevent long-term dependency on social services.

(8)The term “youth at risk of separation from the family” means an individual—

(A)who is less than 18 years of age; and

(B)(i)who has a history of running away from the family of such individual;

(ii)whose parent, guardian, or custodian is not willing to provide for the basic needs of such individual; or

(iii)who is at risk of entering the child welfare system or juvenile justice system as a result of the lack of services available to the family to meet such needs.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 5732a of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

2008—Par. (3). Pub. L. 110–378, § 10(a)(1), substituted “The term ‘homeless’, used with respect to a youth, means” for “The term ‘homeless youth’ means” in introductory provisions. Par. (3)(A)(i). Pub. L. 110–378, § 10(a)(2)(A), substituted “less than” for “not more than” in two places and inserted “, or is less than a higher maximum age if the State where the center is located has an applicable State or local law (including a regulation) that permits such higher maximum age in compliance with licensure requirements for child-and youth-serving facilities” after “18 years of age”. Par. (3)(A)(ii). Pub. L. 110–378, § 10(a)(2)(B), substituted “age and either—” for “age;” and added subcls. (I) and (II). Pars. (4) to (8). Pub. L. 110–378, § 10(b), added par. (4) and redesignated former pars. (4) to (7) as (5) to (8), respectively. 2003—Subsec. (3)(A)(i). Pub. L. 108–96 inserted “, or, in the case of a youth seeking shelter in a center under part A, not more than 18 years of age” after “of age”.

§11279 Definitions

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Title 34, §11279

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