CFR > Title 20 - Employees' Benefits > CHAPTER V—EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR > PART 628—PROGRAMS UNDER TITLE II OF THE JOB TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ACT > SUBPART E—Program Design Requirements for Programs Under Title II of the Job Training Partnership Act (§628.500 to §628.550) > 628.545—Linkages and coordination.

628.545—Linkages and coordination.

(a) General requirements. (1) To the extent practicable, and as permitted by law and regulations, the Governor shall, at the State level, facilitate coordination among the programs set forth at section 205(a) and 265(b) of the Act, including, but not limited to, the establishment of State-level coordination agreements. The Governor may focus coordination through the SJTCC or the HRIC.
(2) The SDA, in conducting programs under this part, shall establish appropriate linkages and coordination procedures with other Federal programs and appropriate State and local educational, social service, and public housing agencies, including with CBO's, business and labor organizations, volunteer groups and others, such as women and older worker organizations, and with appropriate education and training agencies, such as local JOBS programs, Employment Service offices which provide services for JTPA participants, and the local agencies on aging, to avoid duplication and to enhance the delivery of services, which shall be described in the SDA job training plan. Where a local agency declines to complete such a linkage with an SDA, the SDA shall reflect this information in its job training plan ( section 104(b) ).
(b) SDA's are encouraged to facilitate effective “one stop shop career centers” and “single point of contact” delivery systems which may include:
(1) The development of individual service strategy plans and of a common program application; and
(2) A unified job development effort and comprehensive programmatic design ( sections 104(b) (3) and (4), 205 (a) and (b) and 265).
(c) Requirements for youth. For the youth programs under this part, formal agreements shall be established with appropriate local educational agencies which participate in JTPA programs which, at a minimum, shall specify:
(1) The procedures for referring and serving in-school youth;
(2) The methods of assessment of in-school youth; and
(3) Procedures for notifying the SDA when a youth drops out of the school system.
(d) Schoolwide projects. (1) In conducting a schoolwide project for low income individuals under sections 263(g) and 265(d) of the Act, the SDA shall establish a cooperative agreement with the appropriate local educational agency.
(2) In addition to the requirements listed in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section, the cooperative agreement shall include:
(i) A description of the ways in which the JTPA schoolwide project will supplement the educational program of the school;
(ii) Identification of measurable goals to be achieved by the schoolwide project and a provision for assessing the extent to which such goals are met;
(iii) A description of the ways in which the program will use available JTPA and other education program resources;
(iv) A description of the number of individuals to be served by the schoolwide project; and
(v) Assurances that JTPA resources shall be used in coordination with existing sources of funds to supplement and not supplant them ( section 107(b) ).
(3) In areas where there is more than one local educational agency, cooperative agreements for schoolwide projects are required only with those local education agencies that will participate in programs under schoolwide projects ( section 263(g) ).