Colorado § 24-32-2005 - Duties and functions of the youth service corps.

§ 24-32-2005. Duties and functions of the youth service corps.

(1) The youth service corps, through the director, and with the advice of the Colorado youth conservation and service corps council established in section 24-32-2003, shall:

(a) Recruit individuals for the youth service corps who are residents of the state unemployed at the time of application and who are at least sixteen years of age but who have not reached their twenty-fifth birthday;

(b) Match youth service corps members with appropriate local government agencies and community-based agencies and available projects;

(c) Develop general employment guidelines for placement of youth service corps members in local government agencies and community-based agencies which establish appropriate authority for hiring, firing, grievance procedures, and employment standards consistent with state and federal law;

(d) Monitor youth service corps members' activities for compliance with this part 20 and compliance with work agreements;

(e) Establish a program for providing incentives to encourage successful completion of the terms of enrollment in the youth service corps and the continuation of educational pursuits by awarding a youth service corps member a scholarship to a state institution of higher education, private college or university, private occupational school, or vocational school, in an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars, upon such successful completion;

(f) Enter into agreements with the state's institutions of higher education, community college system, vocational schools, and private occupational schools and with other educational institutions or independent nonprofit agencies to provide special education in basic skills, including reading, writing, and mathematics, for those youth service corps members who may benefit by participation in such classes;

(g) Assist youth service corps members in transition to employment, higher education, or vocational school upon termination from the programs, including such activities as orientation to the labor market, on-the-job training, and placement in the private sector;

(h) Coordinate youth employment and training efforts under its jurisdiction and cooperate with other state agencies or departments and program agencies providing youth services to ensure that funds appropriated for the purposes of this part 20 will not be expended to duplicate existing services but will increase the services of youth to the state;

(i) Recruit local government agencies and community-based agencies to employ the youth service corps members in service activities;

(j) Assist local government agencies and community-based agencies in the development of scholarships and matching funds from private and public sources, individuals, and foundations in order to support a portion of the youth service corps member's compensation; and

(k) Determine appropriate financial support levels by private businesses, community-based agencies, foundations, local government agencies, and individuals which will provide matching funds for youth service corps members in projects under work agreements.

Source: L. 91: Entire part added, p. 923, § 1, effective May 31.