Sec. 17b-105g. Selection of food stamp employment and training community collaboratives to receive federal matching funds. Establishment and composition of collaborative. Use of funds.
Sec. 17b-105g. Selection of food stamp employment and training community
collaboratives to receive federal matching funds. Establishment and composition
of collaborative. Use of funds. (a) The Department of Social Services shall select among
qualified food stamp employment and training community collaboratives to receive
federal matching funds in accordance with section 17b-105h. To be considered for receipt of such funds, each collaborative shall demonstrate its capacity to implement poverty reduction strategies to the department in such form and in such manner as the
Commissioner of Social Services prescribes. Each collaborative shall identify (1) its
priorities for reducing child poverty in such municipality or region, (2) how funds that
are received by the collaborative will be utilized, (3) community partners and resources
utilized to support poverty reduction strategies, and (4) its capacity to collect relevant
data and measure outcomes.
(b) Each food stamp employment and training community collaborative shall establish a governance structure, determine membership and identify or establish a fiscal
agent. A collaborative shall consist of at least five member entities representing institutions of higher education, regional workforce development boards, social services nonprofit agencies, business associations, philanthropic organizations, municipalities, community action agencies or other community partners. A majority of the membership of
each collaborative shall be food stamp employment and training providers.
(c) Funds provided to a food stamp employment and training community collaborative shall be used to implement poverty reduction strategies in a municipality or region.
Such strategies shall be aligned with the recommendations of the Child Poverty and
Prevention Council and its plan to reduce child poverty developed pursuant to section
4-67x.
(P.A. 08-161, S. 3.)