Purpose of employment recovery dwgseta provides employment recovery dwgs to address the impacts of mass layoff or other qualifying dislocation events

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor, awarded Bluegrass Area Development District, Incorporated a $2.0 million Employment Recovery Dislocated Worker Grant (CFDA 17.277) effective June 18, 2025, through June 17, 2028. This supplemental funding supports employment and training services for dislocated workers impacted by mass layoffs or other qualifying economic dislocation events in Kentucky. The grant enables the awardee to expand workforce service capacity and deliver comprehensive employment recovery assistance to eligible dislocated workers, including those laid off through no fault of their own, displaced homemakers, and qualifying military members and spouses.

Services provided under this grant include career counseling, skills training, job placement support, and supplementary supportive services designed to facilitate worker reemployment. The awardee may partner with subrecipients and leverage American Job Centers within the service area to deliver these services. Performance outcomes align with negotiated state WIOA Dislocated Worker Program performance goals, with the grant funds available for expenditure through the performance periods following the award date. The three-year funding structure allows the awardee to sustain employment recovery programming and support increased demand for workforce development services within the Bluegrass region.

Employment recovery dwgs generally deliver employment and training assistance (which include career, training and supportive services) to dislocated workers to provide them with the skills they need to become reemployed.activities 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 outcomes generally, state negotiated performance goals for the title i wioa dislocated worker program serve as a basis for each dwgs performance goals. Intended beneficiariesparticipants enrolled in employment recovery dwgs 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 activitiesgrant recipients may partner with subrecipients, as well as provide services through american job centers within the area covered by the grant, as appropriate.