OAR 715-102-0005: Equity Requirements for Grant Recipients

(1) In order to receive a grant through the Oregon Youth Employment Program, local workforce development boards shall: (a) Demonstrate through the submission of a community engagement plan a commitment to serving underrepresented populations, including: (A) Communities of color; (B) Rural communities; (C) Communities that have faced generational poverty; or (D) Other communities that have been historically underrepresented in youth employment provided the applicant provides information documenting such underrepresentation; (b) Submit documentation of the process that will be used to identify, partner with, and provide grant funds to organizations with direct experience serving communities of color. (2) Grant recipients may engage in outreach or solicit participation from individual program participants associated with the categories identified in subsections (a)(i) – (iv) of section (1) of this rule. (3) Grant recipients shall be prohibited from denying services to individual program participants on the basis of lack association with a category identified in subsections (a)(i) – (iv) of section (1) of this rule. (4) The percentage of grant funds provided by each local workforce development board to organizations identified through the process documented in subsection (b) of section (1) of this rule shall be equal to or greater than the percentage of Oregonians age 15-24 from communities of color in the area served by the local workforce development board, according to U.S. Census data.