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                                   2449
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 20, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. HYNDMAN, HARRIS, SIMON, GALEF, BICHOTTE, COOK,
   GOTTFRIED, SEPULVEDA, TITONE, MOSLEY, WILLIAMS, WALKER, CROUCH,  CRES-
   PO,    SOLAGES,   BARRETT,   HOOPER,   JOYNER,   JEAN-PIERRE,   BLAKE,
   PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the Committee 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:
 
   Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
 the department of labor, in consultation with the office of children and
 family services shall conduct a pilot program to provide job  and  voca-
 tional  skills  training  to  youth  who  have been adjudicated juvenile
 delinquents or juvenile offenders under article 3 of  the  family  court
 act  and  who are residing in a facility overseen by the office of chil-
 dren and family services as defined in section 504 or 504-a of the exec-
 utive law. Such pilot program shall be conducted  in  three  residential
 facilities  chosen  by  the  office of children and family services. The
 office of children and family services shall choose the three facilities
 in which the pilot program will  be  conducted  as  considering  factors
 including, but not limited to, existing vocational and job skills train-
 ing  programs,  the  need  for  expansion  of such programs, the average
 length of stay, and age of youth at the specific facilities.  Such pilot
 program shall use a combination of integrated support  services,  educa-
 tional,  vocational  and job skill training to provide youth with skills
 needed to advance to higher levels of education and higher wage jobs  in
 growing  occupational  fields.    Youth  wishing  to participate in such
 program who are also  attending  school  or  are  receiving  educational
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 services  within the facility, must be given an option to participate in
 the program at a time that does not conflict with their school or educa-
 tion schedule.
   §  2. The name of any youth participating in the pilot program and any
 other identifying information relating to the placement of such youth at
 a residential facility, and his or her adjudication as a juvenile delin-
 quent or juvenile offender, shall remain confidential  pursuant  to  law
 and shall not be disclosed to any person or entity not otherwise author-
 ized.
   § 3. To the extent possible, the department of labor and the office of
 children  and family services shall work in collaboration with community
 organizations operating in or around the counties where  the  facilities
 chosen  for  the pilot program are located. Such community organizations
 may include, but not be limited to, not-for-profit organizations,  faith
 based  organizations,  local  development  corporations  and small busi-
 nesses.
   § 4. The department of labor and the office  of  children  and  family
 services  shall  issue a joint report on the status of the pilot program
 to the chair of the New York state senate standing committee on children
 and families, the chair of the New York state senate standing  committee
 on labor, the chair of the New York state assembly standing committee on
 children  and  families  and  the  chair  of the New York state assembly
 standing committee on labor by December  31,  2019.  Such  report  shall
 include, but not be limited to, the status of the program, the number of
 youth  served  in the program, the average length of time youth received
 services in the program, and the employment and educational outcomes  of
 the youth participants if known, as of November 30, 2019.
   §  5.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed April 1, 2020.