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3 <br />3. Institutionalized offenders Project -- focuses on outreach, <br />recruitment and assessment services to offenders while they <br />are in prison or on parole. This training program utilizes <br />available community resources to provide jobs and training <br />plans for the offender. The goal is to minimize the impact <br />of release and re -entry into the community. The program is <br />operated by the Employment Security Commission under a <br />contract with DET. <br />4. Summer Youth Program -- provides summer jobs for <br />disadvantaged youth 14 -21 with public and private non profit <br />organizations capable of providing the most meaningful work <br />experience positions with adequate supervision. Participants <br />work a maximum of forty hours per week for a period of seven <br />to nine weeks. Teaching youth about the actual world of <br />work, good work habits and developing pride in the completion <br />of an assigned task are programmatic goals. JOCCA operates <br />the summer youth program through a contract with DET. <br />Fiscal Year 1991 -92 Training Programs <br />On April 8, 1991 the RSDA -PIC approved training programs for <br />FY 1991 -92. The PIC approved Pre - Employment skills Training/ <br />Dropout Prevention, Institutionalized offenders Project, and <br />the Summer Youth Program. The PIC replaced the OJT program <br />operated by the County Employment Security Commission office <br />with a new program, Individual Referral /OJT. Individual <br />Referral /OJT allows participants to enter an OJT program or <br />to be referred to a community college for training on an <br />individual basis. <br />Comparison of Training Program Funding FY 90 -91 and FY-91-92 <br />FY 90 -91 <br />TITLE IIB <br />Summer Youth Program <br />Program Participants 25 <br />TITLE IIA <br />Pre - Employment Skills /Dropout Prevention <br />Program Participants 80 <br />OJT <br />Program Participants 15 <br />Institutionalized Offenders Project <br />Program Participants 16 <br />TOTAL <br />$ 37,516 <br />$ 55,000 <br />43,452 <br />1_ ,50 0 <br />$ 111,952' <br />*Fiscal Year 1990 -91 Title IIA amount of $111,952 represents <br />an original allocation of $73,196 and $38,756 of <br />unappropriated JTPA funds transferred to Orange County from <br />Vance County. <br />