ETA provides employment recovery dwgs to address the employment-related impacts of mass layoffs and other qualifying job loss events

This $800,000 Project Grant award under the U.S. Department of Labor's WIOA National Dislocated Worker Grants program (CFDA 17.277) will support the Kansas Local Area I Workforce Development Board, Inc. in providing comprehensive employment and training services to dislocated workers impacted by major economic disruptions. The funding aims to enhance the capacity of the public workforce system to deliver high-quality employment opportunities and help unemployed Americans, including those laid off due to no fault of their own, displaced homemakers, and military members/spouses, reenter the workforce and transition to new careers. Key activities include providing career counseling, skills training, job placement assistance, and supportive services, with a focus on expanding accessibility and capacity through virtual platforms and technology to reach historically marginalized communities and areas hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant performance period runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026.

Activities

The activities related to expanding accessibility and capacity through virtual platforms and other technology will enhance online or remote access to priority populations in historically marginalized communities or areas hard HIT by the covid-19 pandemic or other economic transitions. Deliverables:employment recovery dwgs are intended to enhance the ability of the public workforce system to provide effective, accessible, and equitable solutions focused on delivering high-quality employment opportunities for unemployed americans. Intended beneficiary:employment recovery dwgs are available to states, local workforce development boards and other eligible applicants when certain qualifying events occur. All participants in employment recovery DWG projects must be eligible dislocated workers as defined by the workforce opportunity and innovation act, and include those laid off through no fault of their own, displaced homemakers who had relied on the income of another family member, and certain military members and spouses.

Subrecipient activities

Employment recovery dwgs support provision of services to dislocated workers grant recipients may partner with subrecipients as well as provide services through american job centers within the area covered by the grant as appropriate.