youth urograms and other special programs

youth urograms and other special programs Sec. 304. (a) The Secretary may provide financial assistance in urban and rural areas, including areas having large concentrations or proportions of low-income, unemployed persons, and rural areas having substantial outmigration to urban areas, for comprehensive work and training programs, and necessary supportive and follow-up services, including thy following: (1) programs to provide part-time employment, on-the-job training, and useful work experience for students from low-income families who are in the ninth through twelfth grades of school (or are of an age equivalent to that of students in such grades) and who are in need of the earnings to permit them to resume or maintain attendance in school; (2) programs to provide unemployed, underemployed, or low-income persons (aged sixteen and over) with useful work and training (which must include sufficient basic education and institutional or on-the-job training) designed to assist those persons to develop their maximum occupational potential and to obtain regular competitive employment: (3) jobs, including those in recreation and related programs, for economically disadvantaged youths during the summer months; (4) special programs which involve work activities directed to the needs of those chronically unemployed poor who have poor employment prospects and are unable, because of age, lack of employment opportunity, or otherwise, to secure appropriate employment or training assistance under other programs, and which, in addition to other services provided, will enable such persons to participate in projects for the betterment, physical 87 Stat. 860improvement, or beautification of the community or areas served by the program; (5) special programs which provide unemployed or low-income persons with jobs leading to career opportunities, including new types of careers, in programs designed to improve the physical, social, economic, or cultural condition of the community or area served; (6) special services, when required, for middle-aged and older men and women, including recruitment, placement, and counseling for such persons who are unemployed as a result of the closing of a plant or factory or a permanent large-scale reduction in the work force of a locality, and provide grants to or contracts with prime sponsors to assist such sponsors in securing part-time or temporary employment for middle-aged and older per-sons ; and (7) other manpower programs conducted by community-based organizations. (b) To the maximum extent feasible, programs or components of programs conducted under this section shall be linked to comprehensive, work and training programs conducted by prime sponsors under title I of this Act, but the Secretary may provide financial assistance to a public agency or private organization other than a prime sponsor lo carry out one or more component programs described in subsection (a) when he determines, after soliciting and considering comments of the appropriate prime sponsor, if any, that such assistance would enhance, program effectiveness. Tn the ease of programs under subsection (a)(1) of this section, financial assistance may be provided directly to local or State education agencies, after consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, for the operation of such programs.