vocational training services for handicapped individuals

vocational training services for handicapped individuals Sec. 302. (a) For the purpose of making grants and contracts under this section, there is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1974, and June 30, 1975. (b) (1) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to States and public or nonprofit organizations and agencies to pay up to 90 per centum of the cost of projects for providing vocational training services to handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps, in public or nonprofit rehabilitation facilities. (2) (A) Vocational training services for purposes of this subsection shall include training with a view toward career advancement; training in occupational skills; related services, including work evaluation, work testing, provision of occupational tools and equipment required by the individual to engage in such training, and job tryouts; and payment of weekly allowances to individuals receiving such training and related services. (B) Such allowances may not be paid to any individual for any period in excess of two years, and such allowances for any week shall not exceed $30 plus $10 for each of the individual’s dependents, or $70, whichever is less. In determining the amount of such allowances for any individual, consideration shall be. given to the individual’s need for such an allowance, including any expenses reasonably attributable to receipt of training services, the extent to which such an allowance will help assure entry into and satisfactory completion of training, and such other factors, specified by the Secretary, as will promote such individual’s capacity to engage in gainful and suitable employment. (3) The Secretary may make a grant for a project pursuant to this subsection only on his determination that (A) the purpose of such project is to prepare handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps, for gainful and suitable employment; (B) the individuals to receive training services under such project will include only those who have been determined to be suitable for and in 87 Stat. 379need of such training services by the State agency or agencies designated as provided in section 101(a)(1) of the State in which the rehabilitation facility is located; (C) the full range of training services will be made available to each such individual, to the extent of his need for such services; and (D) the project, including the participating rehabilitation facility and the training services provided, meet such other requirements as he may prescribe in regulations for carrying out the purposes of this subsection. (c) (1) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to public or nonprofit rehabilitation facilities, or to an organization or combination of such facilities, to pay the Federal share of the cost of projects to analyze, improve, and increase their professional services to handicapped individuals, their management effectiveness, or any other part of their operations affecting their capacity to provide employment and services for such individuals. (2) No part of any grant made pursuant to this subsection may be used to pay costs of acquiring, constructing, expanding, remodeling, or altering any building.