Texas Labor Code - Section 302.0041. Child-Care Demonstration Project Grants
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§ 302.0041. CHILD-CARE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT
GRANTS. (a) The commission may make grants available on a one-time
basis to local workforce development boards to enable the boards to
design and implement child-care demonstration projects.
(b) A local workforce development board that receives a
grant under this section shall use the grant to design and implement
a demonstration project that:
(1) expands child-care services in underserved rural
local workforce development areas, including:
(A) home-based child-care services;
(B) child-care services at nontraditional times,
including services that accommodate the child-care needs of parents
who work shift-schedules, evenings, and weekends; or
(C) services to link child-care programs,
prekindergarten programs under Subchapter E, Chapter 29, Education
Code, and the federal Head Start program;
(2) creates or expands existing pilot programs, based
on demonstration models from other states, that provide strategies
for successfully recruiting and retaining child-care providers;
(3) creates pilot programs designed to assist
low-income, at-risk parents receiving child-care services provided
by the commission for extended periods who may benefit from career
counseling and employment location services that promote the
potential for career advancement; or
(4) develops initiatives that foster school readiness
in young children and encourage pre-reading and problem-solving
skills in those children.
(c) To be eligible for a grant under this section, a local
workforce development board must:
(1) conduct the demonstration project for which the
grant is made in a manner that allows replication of the project in
whole or part by other local workforce development boards to
address similar child-care service needs in underserved local
workforce development areas; and
(2) use the grant to develop direct child-care
services that, at the conclusion of the demonstration project, may
be funded.
(d) Child-care services that may continue to be funded under
Subsection (c)(2) at the conclusion of the demonstration project
may be funded through existing local workforce development board
resources for child-care services or other local resources.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 495, § 1, eff. June 11, 2001.
Section: 302.003 302.0034 302.0035 302.0036 302.0037 302.0038 302.004 302.0041 302.0042 302.0043 302.0044 302.0045 302.0046 302.005 302.0055
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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