Native American grantees shall:
(a) Provide services to youths most in need;
(b) Develop outreach and recruitment techniques aimed at all
segments of the economically disadvantage youth population, especially
school dropouts, youth not likely to return to school without assistance
from the summer program, and youth who remain in school but are likely
to be confronted with significant employment barriers relating to work
attitude, aptitude, social adjustment, and other such factors;
(c) Provide labor market orientation to participants. This
orientation may include, as appropriate: vocational exposure,
counseling, testing, resume preparation, job interview preparation,
providing labor market information, providing information about other
training programs available in the area, including apprenticeship
programs, and similar activities. It may be provided on a group or
individual basis. In providing labor market orientation, skill training
and remedial education, each grantee shall make maximum efforts to
develop cooperative relationships with other community resources so that
these activities are provided in the summer program at no cost, or at
minimum cost, to the summer program;
(d) Assure that adequate supervision from skilled supervisors is
provided to participants at each worksite;
(e) Make appropriate efforts to encourage educational agencies and
post-secondary institutions to award academic credit for the
competencies participants gain from their participation in the summer
program;
(f) Ensure that appropriate efforts are made to closely monitor the
performance of the summer program and measure program results against
established goals;
(g) Ensure that enrollee applications are widely available and that
jobs are awarded among individuals most severely disadvantaged in an
equitable fashion. Enrollment applications shall require the signature
of the applicant or (in the case of minors) the parent or guardian
attesting to the accuracy of the information, including income data,
provided on the application; and
(h) Provide participants with an orientation to the program which
shall include, but not be limited to: purposes of the program and the
conditions and standards (including such items as hours of work, pay
provisions and complaint procedures) for such activities in the program.
