8 1 ments of private employers, who must be recognized as 2 3 partners in the planning and implementation of youth training and employment programs. 4 "(b) Congress further finds and declares that the prob5 lem of youth joblessness should be addressed not only with a 6 view toward addressing the immediate employment problems, 7 but more particularly in a developmental framework with a 8 view toward moving jobless youths step-by-step into long9 term productive careers in the public and private sectors of 10 the economy. Accordingly, training and employment pro11 grams for youths should be designed in a manner which par12 allels the natural development of youths as they progress 13 toward the adult world of work. 14 "(c) It is therefore the purpose of this part to provide 15 support for youth training and employment programs, along 16 with ancillary employment-related services and supportive 17 services, which— "(1) will develop the skills and competencies of youths to enable them to obtain unsubsidized employment through a sequence of activities that (A) provide intensive remedial education and basic skills training needed for entry into the world of work; (B) develop the skills and ability to perform competently in entry level work; (C) provide an awareness of, and introduc tion to, the world of work; and (D) provide the ad 9 1 vanced skills, training, and job search assistance 2 3 4 CO 6 7 needed by older youths seeking career employment; "(2) provide for assessment of each youth to determine his or her need for employability development; 5 for employment and other services to be afforded to such youths in accordance with such assessed needs; and for employment-related competencies gained by such youths to be documented and recognized in accordance with standards developed in the community; 8 9 23 "(3) provide for performance standards for prime sponsors and service deliverers, and benchmarks for youth participants; "(4) provide for extensive coordination and cooperation in the planning and operation of the programs with local educational agencies, especially with respect to activities on behalf of in-school youths, and for the involvement of the business community, labor organizations, and community-based organizations; and "(5) assure to youths freedom from the limitations of occupational stereotypes based on sex, ethnic group, or handicap. "FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR EACH SUBPART "SEC. 406. (a) From the sums available for this part, 24 the Secretary shall make available 1 2 3 4 10 "(1) not less than 68 percent thereof for purposes of subpart 1 of this part; and "(2) not less than 22 percent thereof for incentive grants under subpart 2 of this part. 5 "(b) Not more than the lower of 10 percent of the funds 6 available for this part, or $150,000,000, shall be available for 7 Secretary's discretionary programs under subpart 3. 8 9 10 "Subpart 1-Basic Programs “ALLOCATION OF FUNDS "SEC. 411. (a) From the amounts made available pursu 11 ant to section 406(a)(1) for each fiscal year— "(1) not less than 5 percent of the sums available for this part shall be made available to Governors for special statewide youth services, to be allocated among the States in accordance with the factors set forth in subsection (c) of this section; "(2) not less than 2 percent of the sums available for this part shall be made available for youth training and employment programs operated by Native American sponsors qualified under section 302(c)(1), in accordance with regulations which the Secretary shall prescribe; and "(3) not less than 2 percent of the sums available for this part shall be made available for training and employment programs operated by sponsors qualified 1 2 3 4 11 under section 303 for youths in migrant and seasonal farmworker families, in accordance with regulations which the Secretary shall prescribe. "(b) The remaining amounts available pursuant to sec 5 tion 406(a)(1) for each fiscal year, which shall be not less 6 than 59 percent of the sums available for this part, shall be 7 made available to prime sponsors for youth training and em8 ployment programs under this subpart, as follows: 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 "(1) one-half of 1 percent of the sums available for this part shall be allocated in the aggregate for Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, in accordance with regulations which the Secretary shall prescribe; "(2) the remaining amounts shall be allocated among States so that (A) three-fourths of such remaining amounts shall be allocated as determined in accord ance with subsection (c) of this section, and (B) one fourth thereof shall be allocated as determined in ac cordance with subsection (d) of this section. "(c)(1) Amounts to be allocated in accordance with this 22 subsection shall be allocated among States in such manner 23 that 2 2 2 2 2 24 25 "(A) 37.5 percent thereof shall be allocated in ac cordance with the relative number of unemployed per 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 12 sons within each State as compared to the total number of unemployed persons in all States; "(B) 37.5 percent thereof shall be allocated in accordance with the relative number of unemployed per sons residing in areas of substantial unemployment (as defined in section 3(2)) within each State as compared to the total number of unemployed persons residing in all such areas in all States; and "(C) 25 percent thereof shall be allocated in accordance with the relative number of persons in fami lies with an annual income below the low-income level (as defined in section 3(16)) within each State as com pared to the total number of such persons in all States. "(2) Such amounts as are required pursuant to subsec15 tion (b) of this section to be allocated among States in accord16 ance with paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be further 17 allocated by the Secretary among prime sponsor areas within 18 each State based upon the factors set forth in paragraph (1). 19 "(d) Amounts required by subsection (b)(2)(B) of this 20 section to be allocated under this subsection shall be allo21 cated as follows: 22 23 24 25 "(1) Puerto Rico, and each prime sponsor area within Puerto Rico, shall receive such share of such amounts as is equivalent to the comparable share of al locations under subsection (c). |