24. INDIAN INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE AND ADULT VOCATIONAL TRAINING, 1. Program: 2. 3. Administering Agency: Department of Interior--Bureau of Indian Affairs 4. Description: Provides services to Indians who voluntarily apply and qualify for assistance to leave reservation environment to obtain employment. Provides grants and assistance to adult Indians to help them attain reasonable and satisfactory employment. 25. INDIAN DIRECT EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM 1. Program: DIRECT EMPLOYMENT, INDIAN LABOR MARKET IMPROVEMENT 2. Authorizing Legislation: 3. 4. P. L. 959 (70/986) Administering Agency: Department of Interior--Bureau of Indian Affairs Description: Provides services to Indians who voluntarily apply and qualify for assistance to leave reservation environment to obtain employment. Program: ADULT VOCATIONAL TRAINING, INDIAN ON-THE-JOB TRAINING 2. Authorizing Legislation: P. L. 959 (70/986) 3. Administering Agency: Department of Interior--Bureau of Indian Affairs 5. Description: Grants and assistance to adult Indians to help them attain reasonable and satisfactory employment. FY 1971: Preliminary (a) Obligations (millions) $2.6 27. VETERANS ON-THE-JOB TRAINING 1. Program: ON-THE-JOB TRAINING 2. Authorizing Legislation: Title 38 U. S. Code 3. Administering Agency: Veterans Administration 4. Description: The Veterans Administration actively seeks out employers and encourages them to have existing on-the-job programs approved for veterans, and to set up programs where they do not already exist. Once these programs are established, they provide not only inmediate employment for the veteran, but also long-range career potential. While in training the veteran receives a subsistence allowance from the V.A. which decreases at six-month intervals. 28. VETERANS DISABILITY REHABILITATION 1. Program: DISABILITY REHABILITATION 2. Authorizing Legislation (MDTA, EOA, etc.): Title 38 U.S. Code 3. Administering Agency: Veterans Administration 4. Description: This program is designed to provide educational opportunities to disabled veterans whose disability prevents them from following their former trade or profession. The program covers all costs of the education; including books, tuition, counseling, etc.; as well as providing a subsistence living allowance which varies according to dependency. (a) Obligations (in millions): $76.9 Participants (should represent the number on board at the start of the year, plus new participants--round to nearest hundred): 30,200 (does not consider terminations during the year). |