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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1982

PUBLIC LAW 97-300—OCT. 13, 1982

96 STAT. 1373

merits with employers), counseling, and other services appropriate to their needs. The centers shall include Civilian Conservation Centers, located primarily in rural areas, which shall provide, in addition to other training and assistance, programs of work experience to conserve, develop, or manage public natural resources or public recreational areas or to develop community projects in the public interest. The centers shall also include training centers located in either urban or rural areas which shall provide activities including training and other services for specific types of skilled or semiskilled employment. (2) In any year, not more than 10 percent of the individuals enrolled in the Job Corps may be nonresidential participants. 0^) To the extent feasible. Job Corps centers shall offer education and vocational training opportunities, together with supportive services, on a nonresidential basis to participants in other programs under this Act. Such opportunities may be offered on a reimbursable basis or through such other arrangements as the Secretary may specify. PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

SEC. 428. (a) Each Job Corps center shall provide enrollees with an 29 USC 1698. intensive, well-organized, and fully supervised program of education, vocational training, work experience, planned vocational and recreational activities, physical rehabilitation and development, and counseling. To the fullest extent feasible, the required program shall include activities to assist enrollees in choosing realistic career goals, coping with problems they may encounter in home communities, or in adjusting to new communities, and planning and managing their daily affairs in a manner that will best contribute to long-term upward mobility. Center programs shall include required participation in center maintenance work to assist enrollees in increasing their sense of contribution, responsibility, and discipline. (b) The Secretary may arrange for enrollee education and vocational training through local public or private educational agencies, vocational educational institutions, or technical institutes, whenever such institutions prcvdde training substantially equivalent in cost and quality to that which the Secretary could provide through other means. (c) To the extent feasible, arrangements for education, both at the center and at other locations, shall provide opportunities for qualified enrollees to obtain the equivalent of a certificate of graduation from high school. The Secretary, with the concurrence of the Secre- Certificates of tary of Education, shall develop certificates to be issued to each educational enrollee who satisfactorily completes service in the Job Corps and attainment. which will reflect the enrollee's level of educational attainment. (d)(1) The Secretary may arrange for programs of advanced career Advanced career training for selected Corps enrollees in which they may continue to training. participate for a period not to exceed one year in addition to the period of participation to which Corps enrollees would otherwise be limited. (2) Advanced career training may be provided for in postsecondary institutions for Corps enrollees who have attained a high school diploma or its equivalent, have demonstrated commitment and capacity in their previous Job Corps participation, and have an identified occupational goal.