Tex.
Labor Code Section 302.0041
Child-care Demonstration Project Grants
(a)
The commission may make grants available on a one-time basis to local workforce development boards to enable the boards to design and implement child-care demonstration projects.(b)
A local workforce development board that receives a grant under this section shall use the grant to design and implement a demonstration project that:(1)
expands child-care services in underserved rural local workforce development areas, including:(A)
home-based child-care services;(B)
child-care services at nontraditional times, including services that accommodate the child-care needs of parents who work shift-schedules, evenings, and weekends; or(C)
services to link child-care programs, prekindergarten programs under Subchapter E (Free Kindergarten), Chapter 29 (Educational Programs), Education Code, and the federal Head Start program;(2)
creates or expands existing pilot programs, based on demonstration models from other states, that provide strategies for successfully recruiting and retaining child-care providers;(3)
creates pilot programs designed to assist low-income, at-risk parents receiving child-care services provided by the commission for extended periods who may benefit from career counseling and employment location services that promote the potential for career advancement; or(4)
develops initiatives that foster school readiness in young children and encourage pre-reading and problem-solving skills in those children.(c)
To be eligible for a grant under this section, a local workforce development board must:(1)
conduct the demonstration project for which the grant is made in a manner that allows replication of the project in whole or part by other local workforce development boards to address similar child-care service needs in underserved local workforce development areas; and(2)
use the grant to develop direct child-care services that, at the conclusion of the demonstration project, may be funded.(d)
Child-care services that may continue to be funded under Subsection (c)(2) at the conclusion of the demonstration project may be funded through existing local workforce development board resources for child-care services or other local resources.
Source:
Section 302.0041 — Child-care Demonstration Project Grants, https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.302.htm#302.0041 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).
