§ 2503.14 - Youth service corps activities.

Projects that receive assistance for youth service corps activities may carry out activities that include participant service in the following:

(a) State, local, and regional governmental agencies;

(b) Nursing homes, hospices, senior centers, hospitals, local libraries, parks, recreational facilities, child and adult day care centers, programs serving individuals with disabilities, and schools;

(c) Law enforcement agencies, and penal and prohibition systems;

(d) Private nonprofit organizations that primarily focus on social service, such as community action agencies;

(e) Activities that focus on the rehabilitation or improvement of public facilities and neighborhood improvements;

(f) Literacy training that benefits educationally disadvantaged individuals;

(g) Weatherization of, rehabilitation of, construction of, and basic repairs to low-income housing, including housing occupied by older adults, day care, senior citizens, and recreational center facilities, and other community facilities;

(h) Energy conservation (including solar energy techniques);

(i) Removal of architectural barriers to access by individuals with disabilities to public facilities;

(j) Activities that focus on drug and alcohol abuse education, prevention and treatment;

(k) Conservation, maintenance, or restoration of natural resources on publicly held lands; and

(l) Other nonpartisan civic activities and services that are of a substantial social benefit in meeting unmet human, educational, public safety or environmental needs (particularly related to poverty) in the community.