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 PUBLIC LAW 95-524—OCT. 27, 1978 training shall be agreed to by the Secretary and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. "(c) The Secretary is authorized to conduct supportive employment and training projects of an experimental and demonstration nature as part of, or coordinated with, experimental or demonstration programs of a similar nature that the Secretary has been conducting for unemployed persons with serious problems in the labor market, such as juvenile delinquents, mentally and emotionally handicapped individuals, alcoholics, ex-addicts, ex-offenders, and recipients of aid to families with dependent children, to enable them, through temporary, highly structured and supervised work experience, to make the transition to employment or self-employment. Such programs shall provide for skill training as required to effect such transition. "(d) The Secretary is authorized to undertake research programs to (1) investigate the applicability of job-sharing, work-sharing and other flexible work hours arrangements in various settings, and of the incentives and technical assistance required by employers to implement such alternative working arrangements; and (2) investigate the extent to which job and wage classification systems undervalue certain skills and responsibilities on the basis of the sex of persons who usually hold the positions. "(ej The Secretary is authorized to conduct a variety of demonstration and experimental projects to test the best methods of assisting persons, who might otherwise rely on public assistance or other income assistance, to find nonfederally assisted employment in the private and public sectors, and to provide federally assisted work and training opportunities for any such persons who are unable to find nonfederally assisted work or training opportunities. Such demonstration and experimental projects and programs are to be conducted, to the extent practicable, in rural and urban areas, in sparsely and densely populated areas, and in areas with inadequate means of transportation. "(f) The Secretary is authorized to conduct demonstration programs and projects, which provide expanded guidance and counseling services to participants under this Act through community vocational resource centers established in economically distressed communities or areas pursuant to section 134(a)(7) of the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Such programs shall provide State boards of vocational education, which establish such community vocational resource centers, with funding for up to 50 per centum of the cost of such projects. The Secretary may make such funds available to a State board of vocational education Avhen such board reaches agreement with the prime sponsor to assist out-of-school individuals in reentering school at the secondary or postsecondary level, to take advantage of vocational skill training opportunities including cooperative education and work-study programs, and to be offered referral to other training programs, apprenticeship programs, and on-the-job training for which academic credit may be available. Projects shall include provisions for outreach to inform the economically disadvantaged of the assistance available through the community resource centers and to provide assurances that programs will be coordinated with other guidance and counseling activities of the prime sponsor, including activities under section 445(c), other in-school guidance and counseling programs in the area, State employment service offices, and the activities of the private industry councils established pursuant to title VII of this Act.

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