§309 — Title 25 Indians | U.S. Code

Summary

Provides a vocational training program to help Indians who live on or near reservations get suitable jobs. The program offers career counseling, classroom training in trades, apprenticeships, and on-the-job training. Training normally may last up to 24 months, and nursing training up to 36 months. It can also cover travel to the training site and living expenses during training. The program is mainly for Indians aged 18 through 35 who live on or near a reservation and follows rules set by the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary may make contracts with federal, state, or local agencies; reputable private vocational schools with proven job placement; corporations or associations with industry-recognized apprenticeship or on-the-job programs; or accredited three-year nursing schools.

Title 25, §309

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In order to help adult Indians who reside on or near Indian reservations to obtain reasonable and satisfactory employment, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to undertake a program of vocational training that provides for vocational counseling or guidance, institutional training in any recognized vocation or trade, apprenticeship, and on the job training, for periods that do not exceed twenty-four months, and, for nurses’ training, for periods that do not exceed thirty-six months, transportation to the place of training, and subsistence during the course of training. The program shall be available primarily to Indians who are not less than eighteen and not more than thirty-five years of age and who reside on or near an Indian reservation, and the program shall be conducted under such rules and regulations as the Secretary may prescribe. For the purposes of this program the Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts or agreements with any Federal, State, or local governmental agency, or with any private school which has a recognized reputation in the field of vocational education and has successfully obtained employment for its graduates in their respective fields of training, or with any corporation or association which has an existing apprenticeship or on-the-job training program which is recognized by industry and labor as leading to skilled employment, or with any school of nursing offering a three-year course of study leading to a diploma in nursing which is accredited by a recognized body or bodies approved for such purpose by the Secretary.

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1963—Pub. L. 88–230 authorized Secretary of the Interior to undertake a program for nurses’ training for periods not exceeding 36 months and to enter into contracts with accredited schools of nursing offering a 3-year course of study leading to a diploma in nursing.

§309 Vocational Training Program; Eligibility; Contracts or Agreements

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Title 25, §309

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