42 U.S.C. § 12572 : US Code - Section 12572: Types of national service programs eligible for program assistance

Search 42 U.S.C. § 12572 : US Code - Section 12572: Types of national service programs eligible for program assistance

(a) Eligible national service programs
The recipient of a grant under section 12571(a) of this title and
each Federal agency receiving assistance under section 12571(b) of
this title shall use the assistance, directly or through subgrants
to other entities, to carry out full- or part-time national service
programs, including summer programs, that address unmet human,
educational, environmental, or public safety needs. Subject to
subsection (b)(1) of this section, these national service programs
may include the following types of national service programs:
(1) A community corps program that meets unmet human,
educational, environmental, or public safety needs and promotes
greater community unity through the use of organized teams of
participants of varied social and economic backgrounds, skill
levels, physical and developmental capabilities, ages, ethnic
backgrounds, or genders.
(2) A full-time, year-round youth corps program or full-time
summer youth corps program, such as a conservation corps or youth
service corps (including youth corps programs under division I of
this subchapter, the Public Lands Corps established under the
Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 [16 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.], the
Urban Youth Corps established under section 12656 of this title,
and other conservation corps or youth service corps that performs
service on Federal or other public lands or on Indian lands or
Hawaiian home lands), that -
(A) undertakes meaningful service projects with visible
public benefits, including natural resource, urban renovation,
or human services projects;
(B) includes as participants youths and young adults between
the ages of 16 and 25, inclusive, including out-of-school
youths and other disadvantaged youths (such as youths with
limited basic skills, youths in foster care who are becoming
too old for foster care, youths of limited-English proficiency,
homeless youths, and youths who are individuals with
disabilities) who are between those ages; and
(C) provides those participants who are youths and young
adults with -
(i) crew-based, highly structured, and adult-supervised
work experience, life skills, education, career guidance and
counseling, employment training, and support services; and
(ii) the opportunity to develop citizenship values and
skills through service to their community and the United
States.
(3) A program that provides specialized training to individuals
in service-learning and places the individuals after such
training in positions, including positions as service-learning
coordinators, to facilitate service-learning in programs eligible
for funding under part I of division B of this subchapter.
(4) A service program that is targeted at specific unmet human,
educational, environmental, or public safety needs and that -
(A) recruits individuals with special skills or provides
specialized preservice training to enable participants to be
placed individually or in teams in positions in which the
participants can meet such unmet needs; and
(B) if consistent with the purposes of the program, brings
participants together for additional training and other
activities designed to foster civic responsibility, increase
the skills of participants, and improve the quality of the
service provided.
(5) An individualized placement program that includes regular
group activities, such as leadership training and special service
projects.
(6) A campus-based program that is designed to provide
substantial service in a community during the school term and
during summer or other vacation periods through the use of -
(A) students who are attending an institution of higher
education, including students participating in a work-study
program assisted under part C of title IV of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.);
(B) teams composed of such students; or
(C) teams composed of a combination of such students and
community residents.
(7) A preprofessional training program in which students
enrolled in an institution of higher education -
(A) receive training in specified fields, which may include
classes containing service-learning;
(B) perform service related to such training outside the
classroom during the school term and during summer or other
vacation periods; and
(C) agree to provide service upon graduation to meet unmet
human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs
related to such training.
(8) A professional corps program that recruits and places
qualified participants in positions -
(A) as teachers, nurses and other health care providers,
police officers, early childhood development staff, engineers,
or other professionals providing service to meet educational,
human, environmental, or public safety needs in communities
with an inadequate number of such professionals;
(B) that may include a salary in excess of the maximum living
allowance authorized in subsection (a)(3) of section 12594 of
this title, as provided in subsection (c) of such section; and
(C) that are sponsored by public or private nonprofit
employers who agree to pay 100 percent of the salaries and
benefits (other than any national service educational award
under division D of this subchapter) of the participants.
(9) A program in which economically disadvantaged individuals
who are between the ages of 16 and 24 years of age, inclusive,
are provided with opportunities to perform service that, while
enabling such individuals to obtain the education and employment
skills necessary to achieve economic self-sufficiency, will help
their communities meet -
(A) the housing needs of low-income families and the
homeless; and
(B) the need for community facilities in low-income areas.
(10) A national service entrepreneur program that identifies,
recruits, and trains gifted young adults of all backgrounds and
assists them in designing solutions to community problems.
(11) An intergenerational program that combines students, out-
of-school youths, and older adults as participants to provide
needed community services, including an intergenerational
component for other national service programs described in this
subsection.
(12) A program that is administered by a combination of
nonprofit organizations located in a low-income area, provides a
broad range of services to residents of such area, is governed by
a board composed in significant part of low-income individuals,
and is intended to provide opportunities for individuals or teams
of individuals to engage in community projects in such area that
meet unaddressed community and individual needs, including
projects that would -
(A) meet the needs of low-income children and youth aged 18
and younger, such as providing after-school "safe-places",
including schools, with opportunities for learning and
recreation; or
(B) be directed to other important unaddressed needs in such
area.
(13) A community service program designed to meet the needs of
rural communities, using teams or individual placements to
address the development needs of rural communities and to combat
rural poverty, including health care, education, and job
training.
(14) A program that seeks to eliminate hunger in communities
and rural areas through service in projects -
(A) involving food banks, food pantries, and nonprofit
organizations that provide food during emergencies;
(B) involving the gleaning of prepared and unprepared food
that would otherwise be discarded as unusable so that the
usable portion of such food may be donated to food banks, food
pantries, and other nonprofit organizations;
(C) seeking to address the long-term causes of hunger through
education and the delivery of appropriate services; or
(D) providing training in basic health, nutrition, and life
skills necessary to alleviate hunger in communities and rural
areas.
(15) Such other national service programs addressing unmet
human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs as the
Corporation may designate.
(b) Qualification criteria to determine eligibility
(1) Establishment by Corporation
The Corporation shall establish qualification criteria for
different types of national service programs for the purpose of
determining whether a particular national service program should
be considered to be a national service program eligible to
receive assistance or approved national service positions under
this division.
(2) Consultation
In establishing qualification criteria under paragraph (1), the
Corporation shall consult with organizations and individuals with
extensive experience in developing and administering effective
national service programs or regarding the delivery of human,
educational, environmental, or public safety services to
communities or persons.
(3) Application to subgrants
The qualification criteria established by the Corporation under
paragraph (1) shall also be used by each recipient of assistance
under section 12571(a) of this title that uses any portion of the
assistance to conduct a grant program to support other national
service programs.
(4) Encouragement of intergenerational components of programs
The Corporation shall encourage national service programs
eligible to receive assistance or approved national service
positions under this division to establish, if consistent with
the purposes of the program, an intergenerational component of
the program that combines students, out-of-school youths, and
older adults as participants to provide services to address unmet
human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs.
(c) National service priorities
(1) Establishment
(A) By Corporation
In order to concentrate national efforts on meeting certain
unmet human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs
and to achieve the other purposes of this chapter, the
Corporation shall establish, and after reviewing the strategic
plan approved under section 12651b(g)(1) of this title,
periodically alter priorities as appropriate regarding the
types of national service programs to be assisted under
subsection (b) or (d) of section 12581 of this title and the
purposes for which such assistance may be used.
(B) By States
Consistent with paragraph (4), States shall establish, and
through the national service plan process described in section
12638(e)(1) of this title, periodically alter priorities as
appropriate regarding the national service programs to be
assisted under section 12581(a)(1) of this title. The State
priorities shall be subject to Corporation review as part of
the application process under section 12582 of this title.
(2) Notice to applicants
The Corporation shall provide advance notice to potential
applicants of any national service priorities to be in effect
under this subsection for a fiscal year. The notice shall
specifically include -
(A) a description of any alteration made in the priorities
since the previous notice; and
(B) a description of the national service programs that are
designated by the Corporation under section 12585(d)(2) of this
title as eligible for priority consideration in the next
competitive distribution of assistance under section 12571(a)
of this title.
(3) Regulations
The Corporation shall by regulation establish procedures to
ensure the equitable treatment of national service programs that -

(A) receive funding under this division for multiple years;
and
(B) would be adversely affected by annual revisions in such
national service priorities.
(4) Application to subgrants
Any national service priorities established by the Corporation
under this subsection shall also be used by each recipient of
funds under section 12571(a) of this title that uses any portion
of the assistance to conduct a grant program to support other
national service programs.