42 U.S.C. § 12592 — Selection of national service participants
submitted 33 years ago by Pub. L. 101-610 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 563 words · no verdicts yet
The entity receiving assistance generally recruits and selects participants. The Corporation and State Commissions must help recruit and place people, may train a national leadership pool, and must issue rules for judging service.
(a) Selection process. Subject to (b), (c), and section 12583(f), the entity receiving the assistance and positions conducts recruitment and selection. (b) Nondiscrimination. Recruitment and selection must follow section 12635. (c) Second term. Only people who perform satisfactorily in the first term may serve a second term under section 12593. (d) Recruitment and placement. The Corporation* and each State Commission* must create a system to recruit people who want national service and help place them in approved positions, including possible positions under the Domestic Volunteer Service Act. They must share position information through schools, higher-education institutions, employment offices, vocational-rehabilitation and other disability-serving agencies, and other appropriate entities, especially groups reaching disadvantaged youth* and youth with disabilities. (e) Leadership pool. (1) The Corporation may select people with significant leadership potential for special training, directly or through a grant or contract. (2) It must make special efforts to select people who served in the Peace Corps, as VISTA volunteers, in assisted national-service programs especially as disadvantaged youth, in programs under former part D, or in the Armed Forces and were honorably discharged. (3) At an assisted program’s request, it may assign a trained person to a leadership position and unusual assignments; that person is a participant*. (f) Evaluation. The Corporation must issue rules on how and by what criteria service is evaluated for a second term or award.
Subject to subsections (b) and (c) and section 12583(f) of this title, the actual recruitment and selection of an individual to serve in a national service program receiving assistance under section 12571 of this title or to fill an approved national service position* shall be conducted by the entity to which the assistance and approved national service positions are provided.
The recruitment and selection of individuals to serve in national service programs receiving assistance under section 12571 of this title or to fill approved national service positions shall be consistent with the requirements of section 12635 of this title.
Acceptance into a national service program to serve a second term of service under section 12593 of this title shall only be available to individuals who perform satisfactorily in their first term of service.
The Corporation* and each State Commission* shall establish a system to recruit individuals who desire to perform national service and to assist the placement of these individuals in approved national service positions, which may include positions available under titles I and II of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 4951 et seq. [and 5000 et seq.]). The Corporation and State* Commissions shall disseminate information regarding available approved national service positions through cooperation with secondary schools, institutions of higher education, employment service offices, State vocational rehabilitation agencies within the meaning of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 701 et seq.) and other State agencies that primarily serve individuals with disabilities, and other appropriate entities, particularly those organizations that provide outreach to disadvantaged youths and youths who are individuals with disabilities.
From among individuals recruited under subsection (d), the Corporation may select individuals with significant leadership potential, as determined by the Corporation, to receive special training to enhance their leadership ability. The leadership training shall be provided by the Corporation directly or through a grant or contract.
In selecting individuals to receive leadership training under this subsection, the Corporation shall make special efforts to select individuals who have served—
in the Peace Corps;
as VISTA volunteers;
as participants in national service programs receiving assistance under section 12571 of this title, particularly those who were considered, at the time of their service, disadvantaged youth*;
as participants in programs receiving assistance under part D of this subchapter, as in effect on the day before September 21, 1993; or
as members of the Armed Forces of the United States and who were honorably discharged from such service.
At the request of a program that receives assistance under the national service laws*, the Corporation may assign an individual who receives leadership training under paragraph (1) to work with the program in a leadership position and carry out assignments not otherwise performed by regular participants. An individual assigned to a program shall be considered to be a participant* of the program.
The Corporation shall issue regulations regarding the manner and criteria by which the service of a participant shall be evaluated to determine whether the service is satisfactory and successful for purposes of eligibility for a second term of service or a national service educational award.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 138, as added Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 101(b), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 809; amended Pub. L. 111–13, title I, § 1313, Apr. 21, 2009, 123 Stat. 1510.)
- 1993Enacted · Pub. L. 101-610 · 107 Stat. 809
- 2009Amended · Pub. L. 111-13 · 123 Stat. 1510
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