Program areas at Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board
Workforce innovation and opportunity act (wioa) adult and dislocated workers programs seek to improve employment, retention, and earnings of wioa participants and increase their educational and occupational skill attainment, thereby improving the quality of the Workforce, reducing welfare dependency, and enhancing national productivity and competitiveness. Youth activities seek to increase the attainment of basic skills, work readiness, or occupational skills, and secondary diplomas or other credentials. A person is eligible to receive services under youth activities if they are between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one at the time of enrollment and demonstrate at least one of the following barriers to employment: deficient in basic literacy skills, a school dropout, homeless, a runaway, a foster child, pregnant or parenting, offender, or an individual who requires additional assistance to complete an educational program or to secure and hold employment. Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board served 1,316 participants during the year.
Pathway home - pathway home provides eligible incarcerated individuals in state correctional facilities or local or county jails with Workforce services prior to release and continues services after release by transitioning the participants into reentry programs in the communities in which they will return. This grant is job-driven and builds connections to local employers that will enable transitioning offenders to secure employment by ensuring participants are prepared to meet the needs of their local labor markets with the skills valued by employers. Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board served 144 participants during the year.
The foodshare employment and training (fset) program provides services to prepare individuals for the world of work with the goal that they might obtain and maintain viable, self-sustaining employment thereby allowing them to remain eligible for their food share benefits or wean themselves off those benefits entirely. Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board served 1271 participants during the year.
The leased employee program provides the necessary and appropriate services to prepare individuals to work and to obtain and maintain viable, self-sustaining employment. Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board employed 106 people during the year.
Scsep - the senior community service employment program provides, fosters, and promotes useful part-time work opportunities (usually twenty hours per week) in community service activities for low-income persons who are age fifty-five or older. To the extent feasible, the program assists and promotes the transition of program enrollees into unsubsidized employment. Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board served 62 participants during the year.
Other program services - other programs that strengthen the Workforce programs in grant, green, Iowa, lafayette, richland, and rock counties. Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board served 350 participants during the year.
Windows to work - a pre- and post- release program designed to address criminogenic needs that can lead to recidivism including employment, education, anti-social cognition, anti-social personality, and anti-social companions. Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board served 343 participants during the year.