[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR400.156]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

CHAPTER IV--OFFICE OF REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT, ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN 

          AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

 

PART 400_REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM--Table of Contents

 

                    Subpart I_Refugee Social Services

 

Sec.  400.156  Service requirements.



    (a) In order to avoid interference with refugee employment, English 

language instruction and vocational training funded under this part must 

be provided to the fullest extent feasible outside normal working hours.

    (b) In planning and providing services under Sec.  Sec.  400.154 and 

400.155, a State must take into account those services which a 

resettlement agency is required to provide for a refugee whom it 

sponsors in order to ensure the provision of seamless, coordinated 

services to refugees that are not duplicative.

    (c) English language instruction funded under this part must be 

provided in a concurrent, rather than sequential, time period with 

employment or with other employment-related services.

    (d) Services funded under this part must be refugee-specific 

services which are designed specifically to meet refugee needs and are 

in keeping with the rules and objectives of the refugee program, except 

that vocational or job skills training, on-the-job training, or English 

language training need not be refugee-specific.

    (e) Services funded under this part must be provided to the maximum 

extent feasible in a manner that is culturally and linguistically 

compatible with a refugee's language and cultural background.

    (f) Services funded under this part must be provided to the maximum 

extent feasible in a manner that includes the use of bilingual/

bicultural women on service agency staffs to ensure adequate service 

access by refugee women.

    (g) A family self-sufficiency plan must be developed for anyone who 

receives employment-related services funded under this part.



[54 FR 5481, Feb. 3, 1989, as amended at 60 FR 33604, June 28, 1995]