(a) General requirements. (1) To the extent practicable, and as
permitted by law and regulations, the Governor shall, at the State
level, facilitate coordination among the programs set forth at section
205(a) and 265(b) of the Act, including, but not limited to, the
establishment of State-level coordination agreements. The Governor may
focus coordination through the SJTCC or the HRIC.
(2) The SDA, in conducting programs under this part, shall establish
appropriate linkages and coordination procedures with other Federal
programs and appropriate State and local educational, social service,
and public housing agencies, including with CBO's, business and labor
organizations, volunteer groups and others, such as women and older
worker organizations, and with appropriate education and training
agencies, such as local JOBS programs, Employment Service offices which
provide services for JTPA participants, and the local agencies on aging,
to avoid duplication and to enhance the delivery of services, which
shall be described in the SDA job
training plan. Where a local agency declines to complete such a linkage
with an SDA, the SDA shall reflect this information in its job training
plan (section 104(b)).
(b) SDA's are encouraged to facilitate effective ``one stop shop
career centers'' and ``single point of contact'' delivery systems which
may include:
(1) The development of individual service strategy plans and of a
common program application; and
(2) A unified job development effort and comprehensive programmatic
design (sections 104(b) (3) and (4), 205 (a) and (b) and 265).
(c) Requirements for youth. For the youth programs under this part,
formal agreements shall be established with appropriate local
educational agencies which participate in JTPA programs which, at a
minimum, shall specify:
(1) The procedures for referring and serving in-school youth;
(2) The methods of assessment of in-school youth; and
(3) Procedures for notifying the SDA when a youth drops out of the
school system.
(d) Schoolwide projects. (1) In conducting a schoolwide project for
low income individuals under sections 263(g) and 265(d) of the Act, the
SDA shall establish a cooperative agreement with the appropriate local
educational agency.
(2) In addition to the requirements listed in paragraphs (a) and (b)
of this section, the cooperative agreement shall include:
(i) A description of the ways in which the JTPA schoolwide project
will supplement the educational program of the school;
(ii) Identification of measurable goals to be achieved by the
schoolwide project and a provision for assessing the extent to which
such goals are met;
(iii) A description of the ways in which the program will use
available JTPA and other education program resources;
(iv) A description of the number of individuals to be served by the
schoolwide project; and
(v) Assurances that JTPA resources shall be used in coordination
with existing sources of funds to supplement and not supplant them
(section 107(b)).
(3) In areas where there is more than one local educational agency,
cooperative agreements for schoolwide projects are required only with
those local education agencies that will participate in programs under
schoolwide projects (section 263(g)).
