Sec. 7. Inviting participation
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Section 193A of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 12651d ) is amended by adding at the end the following: The term covered program means— the YouthBuild program carried out by the Secretary of Labor under section 171 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act ( 29 U.S.C. 3226 ); the program of the Indian Youth Service Corps under section 210 of the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 ( 16 U.S.C. 1727b ); a youth conservation corps program under title I of the Act entitled An Act to establish a pilot program in the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture designated as the Youth Conservation Corps, and for other purposes , approved August 13, 1970 (commonly known as the Youth Conservation Corps Act of 1970 ; 16 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.); and the National Guard Youth Challenge Program under section 509 of title 32, United States Code.
The Chief Executive Officer, in coordination with the Federal agency representatives for covered programs, shall develop a plan and make recommendations in the plan to improve coordination between covered programs and programs of the Corporation to meet the needs of underserved youth, such as economically disadvantaged youth, minority youth, youth who left school without a secondary school diploma, formerly incarcerated or court-involved youth, youth who are children of an incarcerated parent, youth in foster care (including youth aging out of foster care), migrant youth, and other youth who are neither enrolled in secondary or postsecondary school or participating in the labor market. .
Title IV of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 is amended— by redesignating section 421 ( 42 U.S.C. 5061 ), amended by section 4(b), as section 401; by moving that section 401 so as to follow the title heading for title IV; and by inserting after section 420 ( 42 U.S.C. 5059 ) the following: The Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation shall establish an online service platform with a gateway to connect volunteers in the National Senior Service Corps with service projects and enable the volunteers to carry out distance volunteer services.
The platform shall be linked to and placed prominently on the website of the Corporation. The Corporation may enter into a contract with a public entity to create the platform. The Corporation shall provide training resources, information, and guidance for the volunteers on the platform. The Corporation shall provide information to regional offices of the Corporation about how to get volunteers in the National Senior Service Corps connected to the platform through the gateway.
The Corporation shall issue guidance for the regional offices about how to transfer the programs of the National Senior Service Corps to the platform. The Corporation shall provide outreach services to promote the platform including outreach to institutions of higher education, the Department of Veterans Affairs for mentorship projects, and State and local governments for community engagement projects. . Section 193A(g) of such Act is amended by adding at the end the following:
In carrying out public awareness functions under this subsection, the Corporation shall carry out an outreach and promotion campaign to promote programs under the national service laws with opportunities to respond to the COVID–19 public health emergency, with the goal of maximizing awareness of those programs among individuals ages 17 through 30. The Corporation shall prepare and submit to Congress a report that— evaluates the outreach and promotion campaign; and contains— an analysis of the measures and resources that would be required for the Corporation effectively to notify individuals who are ages 17 through 30 every 2 years of opportunities under the national service laws and steps to take to apply for those opportunities; a description of how the Corporation would ensure those measures would enable the Corporation to provide that notification to targeted individuals from diverse geographic areas, including individuals who are ages 17 through 30 living in rural or high-poverty areas, or tribal communities; and a recommendation regarding whether the Corporation should make the notifications described in subclause (I). .
Section 198P(d)(2) of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 12653p(d)(2) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: With respect to grants made with funds appropriated as an additional amount under section 501(a)(4)(F), the minimum grant amount shall be not less than $250,000. .
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