Purposeeta provides employment recovery dwgs to address the employment-related impacts of higher than average demand among dislocated service members and their spouses

This Project Grant award of $601,782 from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the WIOA National Dislocated Worker Grants / WIA National Emergency Grants program (CFDA 17.277) will provide employment recovery services to 400 eligible dislocated workers in Kansas. The funding will support the delivery of career services, skills training, and supportive services through the Local Workforce Investment Area III, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Lenexa, Kansas. This award aims to help dislocated workers, including military service members and their spouses, reenter the workforce and enhance their employability following significant economic dislocations or disruptions. The project period runs from November 1, 2024, through October 31, 2026.

Employment recovery dwgs generally deliver employment and training assistance (as with disaster recovery dwgs, these include career, training and supportive services) to dislocated workers to provide them with the skills they need to become reemployed.activities to be performedemployment recovery dwgs generally deliver employment and training assistance including career, training and supportive services to dislocated workers to provide them with the skills they need to become reemployed.expected outcomesfor grantees that are states or outlying areas, state performance goals for the title I wioa dislocated worker program serve as a basis for each dwgs performance goals. This project proposes to serve 400 participants.intended beneficiariesemployment 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 activitiesemployment 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.