Program areas at WDBSCW
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. In fiscal year 2021 this program served 616 participants.
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. The organization served approximately 142 participants in youth activities during the year.
The organization's special projects that focus on specific objectives and/or target populations. These programs include the windows to work program, which provides case management services to help participants search for and secure employment to ensure successful reintegration into the community after release. Other special projects also include local youth apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship and registered apprenticeship work, rural healthcare grant participants and wai participants. The organization served 971 participants through special projects during the year.
Independent living program seeks to engage a network of service resources to meet the transition needs of young people exiting foster care and transitioing into adult living. The supports and services are designed to help eligible youth complete high school, transition to post secondary education, or to obtain and maintain employment and basic needs. The orgaization served 148 young adults in the region during the program year.
Covid-19 disaster recovery dwg provided local wdb's funding to help respond to the public health and economic impacts stemming from the coronavirus disease public health emergency. The grant funded temporary disaster-relief jobs focused on the provision of humanitarian assistance for 28 participants during fiscal year 2021.