2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 23-B - Displaced Homemakers Act › 825 - Multipurpose Service Centers.

§  825.  Multipurpose  service  centers.  1.  Upon  receipt of federal
funding designated to  assist  displaced  homemakers,  the  commissioner
shall  establish  multipurpose  service centers for displaced homemakers
which shall provide the following:
(a) job counseling services which shall:
(i) be specifically designed for a  person  entering  the  job  market
after a number of years as a homemaker;
(ii)   operate   to  counsel  displaced  homemakers  with  respect  to
appropriate job opportunities;
(b) job training and job placement services which shall:
(i) develop, by working with state and local government  agencies  and
private  employers,  training  and  placement  programs  for jobs in the
public and private sectors;
(ii) assist displaced homemakers  in  gaining  admission  to  existing
public and private job training programs and opportunities;
(iii)  assist  in identifying community needs and creating new jobs in
the public and private sectors;
(c) health education and counseling services with respect to:
(i) general principles of preventative health care;
(ii)  health  care  consumer  education,  directed   particularly   to
selection  of  physicians,  dentists and health care services and health
insurance;
(iii) family health care and nutrition;
(iv) alcohol and drug addictions; and
(v) other related health care matters;
(d)  financial  management  services  which  provide  information  and
assistance   with  respect  to  insurance,  taxes,  estate  and  probate
problems, mortgages, loans, and other related financial matters;
(e) educational services, including:
(i) courses offering information about  credit  through  secondary  or
post  secondary  education  programs  including  bilingual programs when
appropriate;
(ii) such other courses as the commissioner  determines  would  be  of
interest and benefit to displaced homemakers; and
(f)  outreach  and  information  services  with respect to federal and
state  employment,  education,  health,  and   unemployment   assistance
programs  which  the  commissioner  determines  would be of interest and
benefit to displaced homemakers.
2. The commissioner may enter into contracts with and make  grants  to
public  and  nonprofit  private  entities  for  purposes of establishing
multipurpose service centers under this article.
3. The commissioner shall consult and cooperate with the secretary  of
health,  education and welfare, the secretary of labor, the commissioner
of  the  social  security  administration,  the  commissioner   of   the
administration  on aging, and such other persons in the executive branch
of the federal and  state  governments  as  the  commissioner  considers
appropriate  to  facilitate  the  coordination  of  multipurpose service
centers established under this article with existing federal  and  state
programs of a similar nature.
4.  Supervisory,  technical,  and administrative positions relating to
multipurpose service centers established under this  article  shall,  to
the maximum extent feasible, be filled by displaced homemakers.
5.  Trainees  in  a  program  established under this article, who have
demonstrated a financial need to the satisfaction of  the  commissioner,
shall  be  paid  a  stipend not less than the federal minimum wage while
engaged in such program.