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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6011 
To authorize the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Labor to 
make grants to advance treatment, education, and employment programs 
for youth with serious mental, psychological, behavioral, and emotional 
difficulties, so that they may obtain professional assistance necessary 
in order to be successful in their lives and contribute to the economy, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 28, 2006 
Mr. OSBORNE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Education and the Secretary 
of Labor to make grants to advance treatment, edu-
cation, and employment programs for youth with serious 
mental, psychological, behavioral, and emotional difficul-
ties, so that they may obtain professional assistance nec-
essary in order to be successful in their lives and con-
tribute to the economy, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Coordinated Youth 
Education, Employment Training, and Residential Treat-
ment Act of 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States Surgeon General has re-
ported that serious mental, psychological, behavioral, 
and emotional difficulties affect 1 in 5 United States 
youth. Moreover, according to the National Institute 
of Mental Health, no other illnesses affect so many 
youths so seriously. 
(2) Youth who suffer from serious mental, psy-
chological, behavioral, and emotional difficulties, in-
cluding youth who have been abused and neglected, 
require specialized treatment and care in order to 
live successful lives, benefit from education and em-
ployment training, and avoid delinquent, criminal, or 
antisocial behaviors. However, there are an insuffi-
cient number of effective treatment programs for 
these youth. 
(3) As a consequence of the unavailability of 
appropriate treatment options, youth throughout the 
country with serious mental, psychological, behav-
ioral, and emotional difficulties remain in juvenile 
detention facilities and jails for long periods waiting 
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for treatment. These youth are in jeopardy of wors-
ening mental and psychological disorders as a con-
sequence of their confinement. Moreover, even 
though such confinement often provides no profes-
sional, clinically supervised treatment, confinement 
is the most expensive placement for troubled youth 
short of hospitalization. 
(4) Many youth entering residential treatment 
programs for the first time have already experienced 
the trauma of multiple placement disruptions and 
failures in alternative levels of care. Requiring mul-
tiple placements prior to residential treatment is 
predictive of poor outcomes, future disruptions, and 
problems affecting a youth’s educational, emotional, 
and social growth. 
(5) Residential treatment programs for youth 
with serious mental, psychological, behavioral, and 
emotional difficulties, operated by professionally 
trained and supervised personnel, provides for a car-
ing, therapeutic, and cost effective approach that 
serves the best interests of the youth. Residential 
treatment programs are integral components of com-
prehensive systems of care promoting responsibility 
and accountability and providing 24-hour care with 
professional counseling, therapy, specialized edu-
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