---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 3191"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "3191"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/3191"
units:
  - "Chapter 32 — Workforce Innovation and Opportunity"
  - "Subchapter I — Workforce Development Activities"
  - "Part C — Job Corps"
---

# §3191. Purposes


The purposes of this part are—

- (1) to maintain a national [Job Corps](/usc/29/3192.md?p=6) program, carried out in partnership with [States](/usc/29/3102.md?p=56) and communities, to—
  - (A) assist [eligible youth](/usc/29/3102.md?p=18) to connect to the labor force by providing them with intensive social, academic, [career and technical education](/usc/29/3102.md?p=6), and service-learning opportunities, in primarily residential centers, in order for such youth to obtain [secondary school](/usc/29/3102.md?p=55) diplomas or [recognized postsecondary credentials](/usc/29/3102.md?p=52) leading to—
    - (i) successful careers, in in-demand industry sectors or occupations or the Armed Forces, that will result in economic self-sufficiency and opportunities for advancement; or
    - (ii) enrollment in postsecondary education, including an apprenticeship program; and
  - (B) support responsible citizenship;
- (2) to set forth standards and procedures for selecting individuals as [enrollees](/usc/29/3192.md?p=3) in the [Job Corps](/usc/29/3192.md?p=6);
- (3) to authorize the establishment of [Job Corps centers](/usc/29/3192.md?p=7) in which [enrollees](/usc/29/3192.md?p=3) will participate in intensive programs of activities described in this part; and
- (4) to prescribe various other powers, duties, and responsibilities incident to the operation and continuing development of the [Job Corps](/usc/29/3192.md?p=6).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–128, title I, § 141, July 22, 2014, 128 Stat. 1537.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the first day of the first full program year after July 22, 2014 (July 1, 2015), see section 506 of Pub. L. 113–128, set out as a note under section 3101 of this title.