The Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration awarded a $1,200,000 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Dislocated Worker National Reserve Demonstration Grant (CFDA 17.280) to the Arkansas Rural Health Partnership (ARHP), a non-profit organization. The purpose of this 3-year grant, awarded on September 30, 2024, is to increase access to stable, high-quality, family-sustaining jobs for workers in the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border regions, including those in...
The AR Delta Advance Emergency Medical Services Training Initiative is a $450,000 Project Grant awarded by the Delta Regional Authority (CFDA 90.201 Delta Area Economic Development) to the Arkansas Rural Health Partnership (ARHP), a non-profit healthcare consortium. The grant aims to address critical workforce shortages in the emergency medical services (EMS) sector by bringing together non-profit, education, healthcare, economic, workforce development, and industry stakeholders within the EMS...
The American Indian Center of Arkansas, Inc. was awarded a $1,498,810 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the WIOA Dislocated Worker National Reserve Demonstration Grants program (CFDA 17.280) on September 30, 2023. The grant will fund the WORC Arkansas Tribal Rural Workforce Development project, which aims to create economic mobility, address historic inequities, and produce high-quality employment outcomes for Native American...
The Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration awarded a $2,876,688 WIOA Dislocated Worker National Reserve Demonstration Grant (CFDA 17.280) to Community Partnership of Southeast Missouri (CPSEMO) for the Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities (WORC) Round 6 initiative. The purpose of this grant is to increase access to stable, high-quality, family-sustaining jobs for workers in the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border regions, with a focus on critical sectors such...
The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration awarded a $1,488,707 Workforce Opportunities for Rural Communities (WORC) Round 6 Project Grant to the Green Building Alliance, a non-profit organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The grant, running from September 2024 to September 2027, aims to increase access to stable, family-sustaining jobs in critical sectors such as infrastructure and clean energy for eligible participants in the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern...
The Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration awarded a $1,134,709 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Dislocated Worker National Reserve Demonstration Grant (CFDA 17.280) to Gradus Project, a woman-owned, Black American non-profit organization, on September 30, 2024. The three-year grant project, titled "Workforce Opportunities for Rural Communities (WORC) Round 6," aims to increase access to stable, high-quality, family-sustaining jobs for workers in...
This $1,499,999 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (CFDA 17.280 - WIOA Dislocated Worker National Reserve Demonstration Grants) aims to increase access to stable, high-quality, family-sustaining jobs for workers in the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border regions, including those in critical sectors such as infrastructure and clean energy. The grant recipient, Delta Health Alliance, Inc., a non-profit organization in Leland,...
This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the WIOA Dislocated Worker National Reserve Demonstration Grants program (CFDA 17.280), aims to increase access to stable, high-quality, family-sustaining jobs in the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border regions. The $2,364,720 grant awarded to Community Concepts, Incorporated, a non-profit community development corporation in South Paris, Maine, will fund workforce training...
This $1,499,607 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Dislocated Worker National Reserve Demonstration Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (CFDA 17.280), will fund workforce training and career services in the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border regions. The grant recipient, Total Action Against Poverty In Roanoke Valley (doing business as Total Action For Progress), will provide training, supportive services, employer services,...
This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the WIOA Dislocated Worker National Reserve Demonstration Grants program (CFDA 17.280), aims to increase access to stable, high-quality, family-sustaining jobs for workers in the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border regions. The $2,878,888 award to Appalachian State University will fund workforce training activities, career services, supportive services, employer services,...
AWARD PURPOSEWORC PURPOSE: IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE JUSTICE40 INITIATIVE, THE PURPOSE OF THE WORC INITIATIVE GRANTS IS TO CREATE ECONOMIC MOBILITY, ADDRESS HISTORIC INEQUITIES FOR MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, RURAL AREAS, AND OTHER UNDERSERVED AND UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITIES, AND PRODUCE HIGH-QUALITY EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES FOR WORKERS WHO LIVE OR WORK IN THE APPALACHIAN, DELTA, AND NORTHERN BORDER REGIONS, ENABLING THEM TO REMAIN AND THRIVE IN THESE COMMUNITIES. PROJECT TITLE: ADVANCING THE RURAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE: ARKANSAS DELTA TRAINING INITIATIVEGRANTEE REGION: DRADELIVERABLES EXPECTED OUTCOMESTOTAL PARTICIPANTS: 92PARTICIPANTS OBTAINING NEW OR ENHANCED EMPLOYMENT: 73INTENDED BENEFICIARIESTARGET POPULATION: THE PROJECT WILL FOCUS PRIMARILY ON INCUMBENT WORKERS, WHILE ALSO RECRUITING NEW ENTRANTS TO THE WORKFORCE AND DISLOCATED WORKERS.AREAS TO BE SERVED: THE (PREDOMINANTLY SOUTH) ARKANSAS DELTA SERVICE AREA INCLUDES 19 COUNTIES (ARKANSAS, ASHLEY, BRADLEY, CALHOUN, CHICOT, CLEVELAND, DALLAS, DESHA, DREW, GRANT,JEFFERSON, LEE, LINCOLN, LONOKE, MONROE, OUACHITA, PHILLIPS, ST. FRANCIS UNION). ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED.SUMMARY OF PROJECT: THE ARKANSAS RURAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIP (ARHP) WILL BRING TOGETHER LOCAL WORKFORCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION (5), EMPLOYER INDUSTRY (2) AND HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS (16) TO STRATEGICALLY INCREASE THE NUMBER OF LOCAL INDIVIDUALS TRAINED, CERTIFIED, ANDHIRED AS EMERGENCY RESPONDERS. THE PROGRAM WILL OFFER INDIVIDUALIZED SUPPORT FOR DELTA RESIDENTS TO SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN (EMT) AND PARAMEDIC TRAINING PROGRAMS IN ORDER TO MEET CURRENT AND GROWING HEALTH WORKFORCE GAPS IN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ACROSS THE REGION. THE GRANT ACTIVITIES ARE EXPECTED TO: INCREASE ACCESS TO CERTIFICATE AND DEGREE PATH PROGRAMS IN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FOR ARKANSAS DELTA RESIDENTS WITH DEMONSTRATED FINANCIAL NEED INCREASE THE NUMBER OF TRAINED AND QUALIFIED EMERGENCY MEDICAL RESPONDERS IN THE ARKANSAS DELTA REGION IMPROVE ACCESS TO LOCALLY AVAILABLE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES IN THE ARKANSAS DELTA REGION INCREASE THE UNDERSTANDING AND AVAILABILITY OF GOOD JOBS WITH EMPLOYERS THROUGHOUT THE ARKANSAS DELTA REGION.SUBRECIPIENT ACTIVITIESTHE RECIPIENT DOES NOT INTEND TO SUBAWARD FUNDS.