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90_HB2147eng
New Act
Creates the Youth Crime Prevention Consortium Act.
Authorizes universities, colleges, and community colleges
located in the same county to form a consortium that operates
to supply an educational component to youth crime prevention
programs organized by local communities within that county.
Provides that the consortium shall develop and implement a
curriculum offering one or more courses for academic credit
at an institution of higher learning that is part of the
consortium. Provides that the course or courses are to be
offered in disciplines normally associated with young people,
their families, or the criminal justice system and that as
part of each such course students are to be required to
provide adult mentoring and leadership to community youth
during informal, safe opportunities organized by and in local
communities as part of their youth crime prevention programs.
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1 AN ACT relating to youth crime prevention education.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5 Youth Crime Prevention Consortium Act.
6 Section 5. Educational consortium; formation.
7 Notwithstanding any other law of this State, a university,
8 college, or community college that is an "institution of
9 higher learning" (as that term is defined in Section 10 of
10 the Higher Education Student Assistance Act) and that has a
11 campus located in the same county as a campus of one or more
12 other such institutions of higher learning may join with any
13 of such other institutions of higher learning to form a
14 consortium that operates to supply an educational component
15 to a youth crime prevention program or programs organized by
16 local communities in the county in which the institutions of
17 higher learning that form the consortium are located.
18 Section 10. Authorized curriculum. An educational
19 consortium established under this Act shall develop and
20 implement a curriculum that offers one or more courses that a
21 student at an institution of higher learning participating in
22 the consortium may enroll in for academic credit from that
23 institution. The course or courses shall be offered in
24 disciplines normally associated with young people, their
25 families, or the criminal justice system, and as part of each
26 such course the student shall be required to provide adult
27 mentoring and leadership to community youth during informal,
28 safe opportunities organized by and in the local communities
29 as part of their youth crime prevention programs.