Full Text of HR0203 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The nationally-recognized Alternative Schools | 3 | | Network runs many programs that assist at-risk youth, including | 4 | | the Youth Skills, Scholars, and Service and Project New Futures | 5 | | Programs; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The Youth Skills, Scholars, and Service Program | 7 | | educates and graduates over 300 Department of Children and | 8 | | Family Services high school dropouts annually; the program | 9 | | provides educational support and various services to these | 10 | | youth in order to provide a quality education and helps to | 11 | | prevent and reduce violence in Department of Children and | 12 | | Family Services wards; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, The Project New Futures Program supported 130 | 14 | | older Department of Children and Family Services youth to | 15 | | successfully enter adulthood by providing the personal, | 16 | | consistent, and intense support they needed as they prepared to | 17 | | emancipate from Department of Children and Family Services; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, The Department of Children and Family Services has | 19 | | recently cut $1 million from the Alternative Schools Network's | 20 | | Youth Skills, Scholars, and Service Program by denying the | 21 | | organization the sub-contract that was needed to expand | 22 | | services for older Department of Children and Family Services |
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| 1 | | youth; this funding cut also resulted in the elimination of the | 2 | | Project New Futures Program; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, The Department of Children and Family Services is | 4 | | contractually obligated to refer youth that are appropriate for | 5 | | the Alternative Schools Network's Youth Skills, Scholars, and | 6 | | Service Program by their level of credits, skills, age, and | 7 | | motivation; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, The Department of Children and Family Services has | 9 | | notified the Alternative Schools Network that the Youth Skills, | 10 | | Scholars, and Service Program should change from the | 11 | | grant-based program it has been in previous years into a | 12 | | fee-for-service program, a move that would undoubtedly affect | 13 | | many of the at-risk youth these programs seek to help; | 14 | | therefore, be it
| 15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 16 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 17 | | urge the Department of Children and Family Services to | 18 | | reinstate the funding for the Alternative Schools Network's | 19 | | Youth Skills, Scholars, and Service and Project New Futures | 20 | | Programs and to maintain the grant-based nature of the programs | 21 | | so that at-risk youth can receive the education and skills they | 22 | | need to be responsible and productive adults; and be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | delivered to the Director of the Department of Children and | 3 | | Family Services.
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