Mr. O’Flaherty of Chelsea and Ms. Reinstein of Revere move to amend the bill by adding the following section:

SECTION  .  For a pilot grant program to be administered by the Executive Office of Public Safety to support the establishment of a pilot transitional employment project in four sites for very high-risk youth and young adults ages 16 – 24 in the cities and/or geographic areas with high incidences of violence, incarceration, court-involvement and related activities; provided, that the Secretary of Public Safety shall distribute grant funds through a competitive grant program that gives preference to applications that:

serve communities that have been identified as being high risk communities for youth and young adult violence;

demonstrate multi-disciplinary collaboration, including youth/young adult serving community organizations, state agencies, local law enforcement, medical and public health professionals, and faith-based organizations;

utilize a stages of change framework that includes addressing intervention work with young people including but not limited to transitional employment, education, employment readiness, life skills, substance abuse education and treatment referral as needed, re-entry, promoting accountability, and work with other organizations and the Executive Office of Public Safety to determine best practices and long-term programming for transitional employment;

commitment and ability to develop and implement the pilot as proposed in the model including, but not limited to, intensive case management component, re-hire component for transitional employment, work with TA provider, purchase and implementation of Efforts Towards Outcomes for tracking work and outcomes, work with evaluator, and willingness to work as a group to demonstrate the capacity and improve the model;

have the ability to provide a minimum match of $200K to pilot the project and have the administrative capacity and organizational mission to implement such a program; and

demonstrate the ability to work with the department staff to conduct comprehensive evaluations of program development and implementation activities................................................................................................................................. $3,664,768