4. Expand educational programs for homeless youths, with particular attention to youths in middle school, and increase educational services that are coupled with vocational training; and

5. Develop and implement an evaluation mechanism that ensures the potential to replicate the project in other sites.

The project shall also review whether the Department of Human Services and the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services should each have a bureau for adolescents that delivers services to youths who are 12 years of age to 21 years of age; and be it further

Sec. 5. Evaluation and report. Resolved: That the Department of Human Services shall submit an interim report to the Legislature by January 1, 2000 detailing the progress that the project has made. By January 1, 2001, each stakeholders' group with the assistance of the Department of Human Services and the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services shall draft an evaluation of the activities at the stakeholders' group project site including what services or approaches have worked or have not worked. The evaluation must discuss areas in the development and delivery of youth services that need improvement along with any recommendations concerning the development or delivery of youth services by the Department of Human Services and the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services. The evaluation must also describe the measurable outcomes of the project at the site including the services provided, the number of youths served and other statistics that the stakeholders' group determines are significant. The Department of Human Services shall report the evaluation and recommendations of each stakeholders' group to the Legislature by February 1, 2001; and be it further

Sec. 6. Funding. Resolved: That funding for the project must be spent equally between the two project sites; and be it further

Sec. 7. Appropriation. Resolved: That the following funds are appropriated from the General Fund to carry out the purposes of this resolve.

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