§ 335-c. Pilot programs. From the funds specifically appropriated
therefor the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability
assistance in cooperation with the commissioner of the office of
children and family services may conduct pilot programs in up to five
social services districts to provide intensive employment and other
supportive services including job readiness and job placement services
to non-custodial parents who are unemployed or who are working less than
twenty hours per week; who are recipients of public assistance or whose
income does not exceed two hundred percent of the federal poverty level;
and who have a child support order payable through the support
collection unit as created by section one hundred eleven-h of this
chapter or have had paternity established for his or her child and a
court proceeding has been initiated to obtain an order of child support,
and the custodial or non-custodial parent is receiving child support
services through a social services district. Non-custodial parents
determined to be eligible for participation in the pilot programs shall
be informed of the opportunity to participate in such programs on a
voluntary basis. The pilot programs shall have as one component
parenting education for the non-custodial parents. Non-custodial parents
shall be required to attend such parenting education as a condition of
participating in the pilot programs.