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446.205  Job Training Partnership Act family dropout prevention program.--

(1)  The purpose of this section is to provide a dropout prevention program for youth and families who are participants in services provided under the Job Training Partnership Act.

(2)  Each local private industry council shall develop and establish a program to provide dropout prevention services to eligible youth and families who are enrolled in a program provided under the Job Training Partnership Act.

(3)  Local school boards and district ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services' offices shall coordinate with the local private industry council in the development and implementation of a dropout prevention program. Moneys may be allocated to this program from the funds received by each local private industry council.

(4)  A parent or guardian of a family who is a participant in the services provided under the Job Training Partnership Act and the youth of such parent or guardian between the ages of 14 and 21 who are in school and making progress toward the completion of high school or general education development diplomas and who are participants in the services provided under the Job Training Partnership Act are eligible to participate in the dropout prevention program. A youth participant whose parent or guardian is not a Job Training Partnership Act participant and who is between the ages of 14 and 21 years is also eligible for dropout prevention services.

History.--s. 21, ch. 90-273; s. 1, ch. 91-147.

¹Note.--The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services was redesignated as the Department of Children and Family Services by s. 5, ch. 96-403, and the Department of Health was created by s. 8, ch. 96-403.