Monday, December 28, 2009

Youths worked summer jobs in programs

Atmore Advance
... news of interest from 1975, a large number, 176 to be exact, of Escambia youths were given summer jobs as a result of the US Summer for Youth Program. ...

HHS Offers $38M in New HIT Workforce Development Grants

HealthLeaders Media
"The workforce development program is expected to generate highly skilled professionals in key roles to meet 85% of the estimated need for expansion of the ...

Grants fund training for green jobs

San Diego Union Tribune
The San Diego Workforce Partnership, a nonprofit that funds job-training programs, received grants totaling $2.7 million for the classes in environmental ...

Transitional jobs program announced in Dutchess

Mid-Hudson News
POUGHKEEPSIE – The Dutchess County Workforce Investment Board (DCWIB) will receive over $110000 for the Transitional Employment Assistance Program (TEAP). ...

Storm Technologies Earns Excellence in Workforce Devel. Award

Stanly Community College and the Centralina Workforce Development Board are proud of the nomination of Storm Technologies and congratulate this local ...

House Passes Jobs Bill Aimed at Saving and Creating Jobs for “Main Street ...

BigNews.biz (press release)
Summer Youth Employment: $500 million for a summer employment program for youth. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the unemployment rate ...

Monday, December 21, 2009

County uses stimulus money on jobs, aid

Kingman Daily Miner
The college and Workforce Development were able to determine which of the college's job-training programs led to the most jobs in the area and could be ...

Federal money picks up the tab for students in adult school program

Redlands Daily Facts
... 34. allowed us to do more than we were already doing," said Sandy Harmsen, executive director of the San Bernardino County Workforce Investment Board. ...

Westchester receives $4.5 million in stimulus funds for energy efficiency projects

Mid-Hudson News
... audits as part of a “green jobs” training program developed by Westchester Community College for the Westchester/Putnam Workforce Investment Board. ...

Federal funds stimulate Valley job training

Fresno Bee
The colleges supply the instructors, books and equipment, and the Workforce Investment Board of Tulare County supplies the students and the money, ...

Federal funding provided summer jobs for 4000 state youth, young adults

Wisconsin State Journal
More than 4000 youth and young adults in Wisconsin were employed over the summer through $13.8 million in federal stimulus funding from the American ...

Thursday, December 10, 2009

USDOL Seeking Grant Application Reviewers

In June and July of 2009, the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announced six competitions that focus on preparing workers for careers in the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries, health care and other high growth and emerging industries. ETA is currently seeking individuals to serve as reviewers of applications for the remaining Solicitations for Grant Applications (SGAs) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act).

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Workforce Alliance receives $134790 grant to fund workforce training program

News-Medical.net
... skilled employment and contributes greatly to our mission of helping to drive economic growth in our County through innovative workforce solutions. ...

Local Youth Get Inside Track on 114000 New Green Jobs

YubaNet
California Green Jobs Corps, a free program for local youth age 16-24, aims to help youth pursue some of those 114000 new green careers. ...

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Stimulus funds give boost to California's disabled worker program

McClatchy Washington Bureau
By Darrell Smith | The Sacramento Bee Federal stimulus dollars will expand an on-the-job training program for California's disabled workers. ...

WIRED grant to provide scholarship money for Calhoun students

News Courier
The WIRED initiative supports a 23-county region in northern Alabama and southern Tennessee and promotes education, workforce development and economic ...

Philips Honored for Development Work

UC Daily News
State commissioners were on hand to present the award to Philips with the audience of the statewide Workforce Development Board present to hear how this ...

Monday, December 7, 2009

Los Angeles County agency uses federal stimulus money to create jobs

89.3 KPCC
In Los Angeles County, the South Bay Workforce Investment Board is in charge of making that happen. For years, the Investment Board has moved people from ...

Our View: Work force training improves our employees

Norwich Bulletin
The Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board has received stimulus funds and is putting the money to work by enabling employers to put people to work. ...

5 midstate companies to share $1.4M in funds

Macon Telegraph
The Certified Work Ready program is a joint project between the Governor's Office of Workforce Development and the Georgia Department of Economic ...

White House sorts out economic ideas

Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA
By JACK KATZANEK President Barack Obama convened a summit of economists, ... chairman of the National Association of Workforce Boards and former chairman of ...

Friday, December 4, 2009

Work-force training is vital

Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
Ron Painter is president of National Association of Workforce Boards, which represents nearly 650 business-led work-force organizations and Workforce ...

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Chamber, jobs board partner on training

Norwich Bulletin
The Northeastern Connecticut Chamber of Commerce is partnering with the Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board on a job training program. ...

Workforce board gets $87500 for opportunity grants

Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
The North Central Wisconsin Workforce Development Board received $87500 from a state agency to fund grants that will help people improve their vocational ...

Not your typical high school jobs

Verona Press
Haggart is one of many students taking advantage of either the youth options or youth apprenticeship programs offered at the high school. ...

Grant will keep open youth jobs program

Indianapolis Star
The Indianapolis Private Industry Council has received a $2.3 million grant from Lilly Endowment to continue the Youth Employment Service Initiative through ...

Disadvantaged youth to find summer jobs with help of stimulus money

PennLive.com
Sean Hurley, youth coordinator for Cumberland County, said the 50 jobs offered youth in Cumberland included working for the YMCA, Carlisle Borough, TJ Maxx, ...

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Program sensitizes hotel workers to needs of the disabled

The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
Zeiger, who sits on the Mercer County Workforce Investment Board, said the hotel is planning to host a job training program for people with disabilities in ...

Local firms benefit from federal funds for retraining

TheDay.com
By Lee Howard Eleven businesses from the region have received federal stimulus funds from the Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board and state ...

Monday, November 23, 2009

Need a job? Let Fowler help you

From the November 22 HUNTSVILLE TIMES. Interview with a system professional. Mr. Fowler addresses the One-Stop Career Center service statistics. He also mentions the Stand Down event for veterans, the role of the faith-based coordinator, Job Corps, Vocational Rehabilitation, and the Older Workers club.

Stimulus money creates local jobs

Cape Cod Times
The Cape and Islands Workforce Investment Board, the regional nonprofit that oversees publicly funded education and training programs, estimates the ...

JAG-SC gets national honors

WMBF
JAG-SC is a dropout prevention program for high school students that began in 2005 and is funded through the State Workforce Investment Board. ...

Monday, November 16, 2009

Young professional shows others 'road to self-sufficiency'

Poughkeepsie Journal
Three years ago, the 30-year-old joined the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce as an employment mentor with its Workforce Development Center. ...

Chipola College news

Chipley Bugle - Chipley,FL,USA
Funds for the latest simulator came from the Chipola Regional Workforce Development Board. All simulators can be adjusted to suit the education point of the ...

Long Beach Employment Program Lists Hundreds of Jobs--to get Gold Medal Award ...

www.OC180NEWS.com
As a Gold winner in the 150001-500000 population category, Long Beach is being honored for its Creating a Youth-Driven Career Center program. ...

Friday, November 13, 2009

Green Jobs for 4-states future

KOAM-TV
... that direction in terms of what their career options may look like," says Jasen Jones, Director of the Workforce Investment Board of Southwest Missouri. ...

Summit aims at reducing Pittsburgh high school drop-out rates

Tribune Review
... according to reports completed by the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board in conjunction with the mayor's office and city schools. ...

Workforce Development grants announced

Wyoming Business Report
By Staff CHEYENNE — The Wyoming Workforce Development Council (WWDC) has awarded several grants for industry partnership solutions and alternative/renewable ...

Piedmont Triad, NC, Economic News/Virtual Job Fair Receives Award

dBusinessNews Triad (press release) - NC,USA
The six workforce development boards involved in TriadWorks include: DavidsonWorks, Greensboro/High Point/Guilford County Workforce Development Board, ...

Thursday, November 12, 2009

LA gets more than $10.3 million in federal stimulus money

Los Angeles Daily News
The Community Development Department and the Workforce Investment Board on Tuesday began soliciting bids from training service providers interested in ...

Youth workforce coordinator named

Cincinnati.com
The goal is to serve 1000 youth in these programs by June 2011. In addition, the SWORWIB just concluded a summer youth jobs program, funded by the American ...

Los Angeles to use $10.3 million in stimulus funds for worker-training programs

Los Angeles Times
Villaraigosa said the city has received $43.7 million in job-training funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act so far, and between $300 million ...

TWIB helps area youth become self sufficient and productive members of the ...

PRLog.Org (press release)
“The Summer Youth Employment Program allowed us to provide employment and work experience for area youth who might not have had the chance to find ...

Region will receive $650K for job training

Mansfield News Journal
The federal Workforce Investment Act funding will make available up to $253958 for Richland County, to help pay for advanced training in manufacturing, ...

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Area wins national award for business collaboration

Gainesville Sun
TEAM, which formed in 2005, moved quickly to organize the Summer Youth Program when FloridaWorks partnered with Santa Fe College, the School Board of ...

Monday, November 9, 2009

Federal training funds reach 22000 Hawaii workers

Pacific Business News
Approximately 22000 Hawaii workers have benefited from federally funded work-force development initiatives in the past year, according to state officials. ...

Tammerling Drummond: Putting low-income youth to work a good use of federal funds

San Jose Mercury News
Fortunately, she qualified for Oakland's summer jobs program — a federally funded employment program designed to help low-income youth, ages 14 to 24 find ...

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Legislators plan meetings on job-training needs

Dubuque Telegraph Herald
The legislators will host members of a job-training needs study committee, co-chaired by state Rep. Wayne Ford, of Des Moines, and state Sen. ...

MCTC helping students in the workforce learn

MU The Parthenon
Through the Workforce Development Institute, workers can earn up to 29 college credits for the training received through their employers. ...

Monday, November 2, 2009

New WIB Member Blog

First day as a WIB member blog by Chris Hooks.

Summer youth program aids economy, brings jobs

Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise
Eligible youth for the Summer Youth Employment program were ages 14-24 and met income guidelines outlined by the act. Locally the program provided ...

City gets creative with arts plan

The Brown Daily Herald
She pointed to a summer youth employment program as one initiative in which the department was able to quickly and effectively carry out the mayor's ...

Report: 2300 Nebraska jobs saved, created by stimulus funds

Lincoln Journal Star
About $3.9 million in stimulus money paid for a statewide summer youth program, creating about 268 jobs, according to the report. ...

Stimulus funds created thousands of youth “recovery” jobs

Access Washington
Through the youth-employment program, she landed her first summer job, as a Head Start teacher's assistant. The program not only paid her wages, ...

Stimulus funds are used for workforce training, business retention, and youth ...

Fontana Herald-News
About $7.1 million in stimulus funding was assigned to the Summer Youth Employment Program, which placed 1834 youth, ages 14 to 24, in jobs this summer. ...

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Stimulus funds are used for workforce training, business retention, and youth work experience

The Workforce Investment Board of San Bernardino County recently announced that of the $15.8 million in stimulus funding allocated by the federal government in February, approximately $11.7 million has been spent on local programs for workforce training, business retention and youth work experience, and $4.1 million is contracted to be spent on additional training programs during the next year.

The Recovery Act and Clean Energy - Perspective From The US Labor Secretary Solis

eGov monitor
I have carried this message to miners in West Virginia, solar panel manufacturers in Tennessee, auto workers in Michigan, veterans in San Antonio, and youth ...

More Colorado jobs tied to ARRA money

Denver Business Journal
The money is estimated to have created 10322 jobs altogether, though many, such as 3207 summer youth jobs, are part-time positions, Kim explained. ...

Hawaii stimulus: 182 contracts, $122M, 250 jobs

Pacific Business News
The projects include repair work on buildings at Hickam Air Force Base, Schofield Barracks and the Fort Shafter Youth Center. Allied President Willie Alicar ...

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Campaign promotes careers in advanced-technology fields

Augusta Free Press
... the Shenandoah Valley Partnership, Inc. and the Shenandoah Valley Workforce Investment Board, Inc. For more information about Dream It. Do It. Virginia, ...

Pennsylvania job-training efforts lead nation

Central Penn Business Journal
The L&I initiatives are part of a larger job training effort that took on a new name, workforce development, and a new focus under the Rendell ...

Unemployed Get Boost From Workforce Investment Board

WFMZ-TV Online
But the Lehigh Valley Workforce Investment Board is upping the ante and using a portion of $2 million in federal stimulus money to pay for the rest of an ...

Eel River employers investing in area youth; making it happen with the StepUp ...

Humboldt Beacon
According to Sapper, the goal of StepUp is to invite employers to literally, STEP UP and provide jobs for youth and to match youth to appropriate job sites. ...

Thursday, October 22, 2009

San Diego Workforce Partnership Stories

The San Diego Workforce Partnership is excited to feature real stories from people in San Diego who benefit from our work. The funding we receive from the Department of Labor gives us the opportunity to support a network of career centers countywide and run a summer youth employment program. - Rebecca Smith, Vice President, San Diego Workforce Partnership

Lehigh Valley Workforce Investment Board offering free community college

and ...
Lehighvalleylive.com
... community college tuition through federal stimulus money given to the Lehigh Valley Workforce Investment Board Inc. With $2 million in stimulus money, ...

New High-Tech Entrepreneurship Program Launched for Life Sciences

UB News Center
... the Buffalo and Erie County Workforce Investment Board, Inc. Representatives from 12 life sciences companies are enrolled in the inaugural class. ...

New Initiative Attempts To Lower Unemployment Rates

WISN.com
Career Works has a new job training center in Bayshore Town Center. Businesses in tourism, retail and hospitality can post openings and requirements for ...

Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board unveils new CareerWorks program

FOX6Now.com Milwaukee
WITI-TV, MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board is launching a new "CareerWorks Program" to connect job seekers with businesses. ...

Report: More Than One Million 'Middle-Skill' Jobs Expected in Illinois by 2016 ...

Reuters
We must provide our state residents the opportunity to obtain some form of postsecondary education or job training," says Assistant Majority Leader David ...

Event: Green Economy Topic Of Green Market ExpositionTomorrow ...

By Christopher Zurcher
Other guest panelists include Robert Araujo of Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation; Michael J. McCarthy of bluegreen Research Institute, a project of The WorkPlace, Inc., Southwestern Connecticut' s Regional Workforce Development Board; ...

New Biotechnology Website and Workforce Directory Unveiled to Support ...

Reuters
... directory to help boost employment in the life sciences industry and to promote the biotechnology industry as a potential career choice for students. ...

Economic stimulus summer youth program pays off in permanent jobs

KOAM-TV
The Workforce Investment board says more than 260 young adults had summer jobs, and at least 20 are still earning paychecks. John Fickbohm is one of them. ...

walter state tops list

Seymour Herald
The CWD also administered the $2.2 million summer youth jobs program in which 875 area youth were employed in local businesses and industries. ...

Stimulus Money Hard at Work

WYTV
... at the One-Stop Workforce Centers by 12-percent. Part of the stimulus money also helped more than 500 people find work through the Summer Youth Program.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Daniels expands youth conservation corps program

Chicago Tribune
The Young Hoosiers Conservation Corps has given jobs to nearly 1900 residents ages 16 to 24 since it was created this year using federal stimulus money. ...

Feds praise St. Louis County youth jobs initiative

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Some of the summer jobs, the county said in a statement, have led to full-time employment. As a result of the federal government's recognition, county human ...

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Lois Kazakoff: A look at the Bay Area jobs future

San Francisco Chronicle
"The goal is to bring back well-paid blue-collar jobs," said Dorothy Chen, director of the Workforce Investment Board in Alameda County. ...

Microsoft to provide free training for unemployed Marylanders ...

By Stan Moore
Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning. 6000 Vouchers – Microsoft E-Learning: to include Microsoft Worker (Windows XP, Office 2003 or Windows Vista & Office 2007); 1500 Vouchers – Microsoft E-Learning: IT Professional ...

SalisburyPost.com - Area - Rowan-Cabarrus Community Colleges ...

Beverly Perdue, developed by North Carolina community colleges and funded by federal stimulus dollars through the Division of Workforce Development in the N.C. Department of Commerce. The objective of JobsNOW is to quickly train workers ...

Mississippi Geospatial Cluster Continues Growth as Need for ...

By GISLounge.com
Additional factors include the commitment of private industry to doing business from a Mississippi zip code and the multitude of statewide programs that support geospatial research and workforce development efforts. ...

City, ISU continue to fund WeLead

West Liberty Index
Although Lathrop said WeLead is still in the early feasibility stages of working with the West Liberty School District and Iowa Workforce Development, ...

Celebrating Workforce Development

WTOK
Meridian Community College hosted an open house and ribboncutting for its Workforce Development Center Wednesday. Officials say the training offered here ...

Federal Stimulus Money Used To Reeducate Unemployed

NewsChannel5.com
The Department of Labor and Workforce Development hope the funds will serve to also re-energize the local economy. For more than a year, Torji Smith has ...

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Grants help youths learn job skills

Poughkeepsie Journal
The Dutchess County Workforce Investment Board worked with several community agencies to administer these programs. Workforce Investment Boards distribute ...

Federal money buys about 700 ND jobs so far

Forbes
North Dakota's Department of Commerce reported that $25.3 million in federal weatherization assistance money can be credited with 30 jobs. ...

Workforce Solutions broadening service points across Treasure Coast

Stuart News (subscription)
“We're attempting to increase the number of access points for job seekers with the high unemployment we have,” Workforce Solutions President and Chief ...

Stimulus funds help students learn skills

Attleboro Sun Chronicle - Attleboro,MA,USA
... North Attleboro and Norton who participated in the federal- and state-funded program financed through the Bristol County Workforce Development Board. ...

Minn. Chalks Up Nearly 12000 Jobs To Stimulus

WCCO
—$16.6 million provided the equivalent of 1335 full-time positions in youth summer employment and support jobs from May through September. ...

Monday, October 12, 2009

630 summer jobs created

Pacific Coast Business Times
A $1.75 million federal stimulus program created 630 jobs for young people over the summer, the Workforce Investment Board of Ventura County said in a ...

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Community College gets $750000 grant for job training

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
CCAC will recruit students through regional employers, The Pittsburgh Hispanic Center, Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board, careerlink and the CCAC ...

County gets $1.6 million for green jobs training

Times-Standard
The Humboldt County Workforce Investment Board has been awarded $1.6 million for green jobs training in Humboldt and Del Norte counties. ...

Stimulus jobs program helps teens, young adults

Daytona Beach News-Journal
Christine Sikora, youth services coordinator for the Center for Business Excellence, said 350 youths in Volusia and Flagler counties got jobs this summer ...

Federal stimulus paying for local jobs and job training

KOLD-TV
The county will spend nearly a quarter of its money training about 1500 jobless people. Jim Mize is with Pima County Employer Outreach. ...

Canton stimulus program to train workers for environmental cleanup

Canton Repository
Canton and about 100 other communities and nonprofit agencies applied for more than $6.8 million allotted for the job-training grants. ...

Monday, October 5, 2009

Guest's view: Youth employment program transforms lives

Utica Observer Dispatch
By DAVID MATHIS Transformation is at the core of everything we at the Oneida County Office of Workforce Development do with the youth who work in our Summer ...

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Job-seeking success stories celebrated in Vineland

Vineland Daily Journal
The One-Stop Career Centers are programs of the Cumberland and Salem Workforce Investment Board, whose origins date to 1989 when it was known as the Private ...

Chamber seeks jobs for disabled

Danbury News Times
He added that the Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board will provide partial wage and training reimbursement to employers for qualified job seekers ...

12 St. Lucie organizations named 'Best Places to Work' for 2009

Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription) - Vero Beach,FL,USA
... to Work in 2009 by the St. Lucie County Human Resource Association and Workforce Solutions, formerly Workforce Development Board of the Treasure Coast. ...

Work force development center hits 10-year mark

Watertown Daily Times - Watertown,WI,USA
Near the close of formal remarks, Pat Schramm, the executive director and CEO of the Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin, ...

Worker retraining gets multimillion-dollar boost

Michigan Business Review - MLive.com - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
Levin met with the Muskegon/Oceana Workforce Development Board, which advises the Muskegon County Department of Employment and Training. ...

New green jobs center for youth opens in Austin

Austin American-Statesman
By Asher Price | Monday, September 28, 2009, 05:24 PM The South Austin facility, which houses a charter school for at-risk youth, has already gone through ...

More than 500 Union County youths benefit from Summer Jobs Program

Scarlet Scuttlebutt
The two programs include the Summer Youth Employment Program and Help Employ Area Teens. Together, they are designed to improve long-term career prospects ...

Federal stimulus money boosts job training efforts in KC

Kansas City Star
But if there's one place the stimulus money's impact is seen, it's in the job-training sector. Through the spring and summer, local organizations like the ...

New skills for jobless funded by stimulus

Arizona Republic
They sat down with the Center for Workforce Development to create ways to provide more extensive and focused career training. In the past, the groups have ...

Trainees graduate from green jobs program

Columbia Daily Herald
The eight trainees, who range in age from 19 to 24, were selected from a pool of young people who were participants in the Hire Youth! Summer Jobs Program. ...

Monday, September 28, 2009

National League of Cities

Non-profit association of cities and state municipals leagues. ... Association of State Workforce Boards and National Association of Workforce Boards ...

Several hundred benefited from teen jobs here

Enterprise-Record
More than 300 individuals from 16 to 24 found summer jobs, according to youth case work manager Bob Lackey, who was one of about five adults involved in ...

Friday, September 25, 2009

Pennsylvania Earns National Recognition for Excellence in ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)
"Under Secretary Vito's leadership we have transformed Pennsylvania's workforce development system," Governor Rendell said. "We continue to work hard to do ...

The Best States For Business

Forbes
Louisiana launched a workforce development reform plan last year that borrows heavily from labor programs in Texas and Georgia, both among our top 10. ...

North Dakota launches new youth office

In-Forum
Jack Dalrymple, will focus on identifying challenges facing North Dakota youth relating to jobs, healthcare, recreation, education or other major issues. ...

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Health sector a good bet for jobs as training funds multiply

Cherrie Lenz of West Palm Beach, Fla., was a medical massage therapist for 25 years, but says she lost her job when Medicare rules changed. She would like to stay in health care, but is not in a financial position to return to school. Could stimulus funds earmarked for job training help her? Without income and the inability to go back to her occupation, she would qualify for free training through the federal stimulus and other programs.

As School Year Begins, Teens Celebrate Work Helping Seniors

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
The Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) provides New York City youth between the ages of 14 and 24 with summer employment and educational opportunities. ...

Monday, September 21, 2009

Investment in workers builds better future

Norwich Bulletin
With the support of federal stimulus dollars, Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board and EASTCONN, the Summer Youth Employment Program helps us ...

Youth work experiences wrapping up for the summer | KXNet.com ...

KXMC
AP PIERRE, SD (AP) South Dakota Labor Secretary Pam Roberts says her agency's summer youth work experience program, which ends on Sept. ...

SNCAT Corner: Student is face of federal stimulus package

Reno Gazette-Journal
As his time with the Summer Youth Employment Program draws to a close, Richardson plans on continuing to work with SNCAT as a volunteer. ...

State Announces Job Training Grants

The Gouverneur Times
The $11 million National Emergency Grant (NEG), awarded by the US Department of Labor, covers the tuition costs of job-training courses available at ...

WLS Learning Ambassador Program

Westchester.com
Tarrytown, NY - Teens often do not have high expectations for summer employment. A job offers something to do, a few new skills, and maybe a bit of spending ...

$17M stimulus money helped thousands have youth summer jobs

Chicago Defender
by Kathy Chaney More than 19000 youths worked this summer, thanks to the City of Chicago's summer job program for youths, Youth Ready Chicago, ...

Job training program a victory for students at Hialeah High School

MiamiHerald.com
Project Victory, an employability skills training program for students with developmental disabilities, comes to Hialeah High. ...

Green job apprenticeships help low-income workers

SDNN
By Helen Kaiao Chang, SDNN Green job training programs can help strengthen the construction industry, stabilize the economy and uplift low-income workers, ...

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Stimulus package provided opportunity

Natchez Democrat
During the months of June and July, I was afforded the opportunity to be employed with the City of Natchez by way of the stimulus package's Summer Youth ...

Extra: Stimulus money flows into Minnesota

KARE
Saint Paul is also spending $100000 in Recovery Act money on the Youth Job Corps program, which puts teens to work around the city during the summertime and ...

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Stimulus money affects Cerritos campus

Talon Marks (subscription)
... a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, more than $265000 were awarded to the Southeast Los Angeles County Workforce investment board. ...

Riverside Supervisors approve over $1 million for worker retraining

Valley News
Graceland personnel will also coach county Workforce Development Center staff on how to conduct future boot camps. The contract lasts 90 days. ...

Workforce Collaborative Awards $97000 to Train Residential Energy ...

Martinsville Daily
The DRR Collaborative is a new regional funding entity that is supported by the National Fund for Workforce Solutions. The National Fund was created to ...

BRAC: Job training key to success

FayObserver.com
By Sarah A. Reid At a recent job fair in Charlotte, medical professionals were shocked to learn that they could work at Womack Army Medical Center without ...

Boots on the Roof Offers Green Job Training

Triple Pundit
California recently announced $75 M in training for green job programs. Community Colleges in Oregon found that green job training was one of the fastest ...

Stevens awarded 6th Workforce Development grant of $563600 by NJ ...

EurekAlert (press release)
HOBOKEN, NJ — Stevens Institute of Technology has again been awarded a $563600 High-Growth Workforce Development training grant from the New Jersey ...

Greening Orange County

Emediawire (press release)
Recognizing this the huge potential of green jobs to transform local economies, the Orange County Workforce Investment Board (OCWIB) partnered with Clean ...

Governor lauds new workforce center in Roanoke

Roanoke Times
... federally funded workforce programs cluster in a “one-stop” setting, said Doloris Vest, president of the Western Virginia Workforce Development Board. ...

Monday, September 14, 2009

Recovery Act Funds Providing Additional Job Placement and Job ...

Region 2 – The Workforce Development Board of Okaloosa and Walton ... Region 4 – Gulf Coast Workforce Development BoardBay Franklin Gulf ...

Old windows get new life in job training program

Annapolis Capital
Many were broken, rotted and dirty until recently when a city-sponsored job training program gave the old windows a new lease on life. ...

Guest commentary: 'Out of the ordinary' summer job at Cambridge Police

Cambridge Chronicle
This year was the first for CYPA, the Cambridge Youth Police Academy, which is now one of the job opportunities offered through MSYEP, the Mayor's Summer ...

Stimulus money brings 'green' job training to Jacksonville

Florida Times-Union
Tony Hill, D-Jacksonville, talks Tuesday about Solar Engergy Initiatives Inc. and its partnership with job training and placement agencies to train workers ...

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Job seekers can get WIRED into tech careers

Northern Colorado Business Report
Metro Denver WIRED -- Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development -- has provided funding for several workforce development programs in Northern ...

Young workers given a chance

San Antonio Express
Even before the $5 million employment program administered by Workforce Solutions Alamo runs its course through Sept. 30, reports are piling up of employers ...

Career technical academy is still priority for school leaders

Lexington Dispatch - Lexington,NC,USA
Ross and Sink will travel to Yadkinville on Wednesday to talk with members of the Northwest Piedmont Workforce Development Board to introduce them to the ...

Program to steer San Mateo County youth into 'green' jobs

San Mateo County Times
"We are building a brand-new program to serve 150 youth throughout the county," said Fred Slone, county work force development manager. ...

JOBS: State conservation corps benefits parks, kids

Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Earlier this year, Paterson announced that 50000 youth jobs had been created through a combination of stimulus funding and existing resources. ...

Solar Energy Initiatives, Inc. Partners with Jacksonville Job ...

Reuters
Joining Solar Energy in this job training collaborative is Community Rehabilitation Center (CRC), Northeast Community Action Agency (NFCAA) and WorkSource. ...

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Workforce Investment Board helps people find work San Bernardino ...

That's where she found the San Bernardino County Workforce Investment Board a publicprivate board that uses federal funding to help San Bernardino County ...

Youth group ends summer on high note

Garner Citizen
By Patricia Lait As fall classes begin for students, many are left with fond memories of summer break: working part-time jobs, hanging out with friends, ...

With summer over, 3400 East Bay youths employed by a jobs program ...

Contra Costa Times
"Youth were literally helping their parents this summer with groceries," said Rosario Flores, of Alameda County's Workforce Investment Board. ...

Local Youths Earn Experience, Paychecks

The Ledger
"It made me realize that you can't take a job for granted … It made me work harder." The Summer Youth Employment Program was implemented in communities ...

Job training prepares students for the future

The Commercial Dispatch
The student employees are treated like regular, full-time employees and, additionally, will receive training in effective interviewing techniques and ...

Central Wisconsin puts focus on 'green' energy

Wisconsin Rapids Tribune - Wisconsin Rapids,Wisconsin,USA
Mid-State also is working with leaders at Energy Composites Corp. in Wisconsin Rapids and the North Central Wisconsin Workforce Development Board to develop ...

Summer Jobs Aid For Teens Still A 'Win'

TheDay
By Anthony Cronin John Beauregard sums up the success of the Eastern Connecticut Summer Youth Employment Program quite simply: It's a “win, win, win. ...

Governor Rendell: Funding for Economic Development Investments ...

Reuters
... Opportunity Grant Program - $400000; -- Customized Job Training Funds - $100000; -- Job Creation Tax Credits - $786000; -- RACP - $3 million. ...

Work gives lives direction after prison

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
He and four other men are in the beginning of a paid 12-week job training program at Eaton's Asphalt Service Inc., the program's first business partner. ...

Work & Learn

Dalles Chronicle
Through a federal stimulus grant, the program was able to offer job training to people who otherwise might not have had an inside look at how industry works ...

Program sponsors training for 30 nurses

Hometown News
The money came from Workforce Solutions, a private nonprofit that aids jobseekers and businesses. It is part of a $340430 grant the group secured from ...

Stimulus money used to clean up park

abc7news.com
The lot will become a park and youth center, creating construction jobs and even more employment down the line. "Once the center is up and running, ...

State Commerce Director congratulates area youth workers, local labor

MyWebTimes.com
Speaking before a gathering of local dignitaries and union officials, Ribley said, "The objective of the Summer Youth Program was to provide young people ...

Statement of US Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on August ...

Reuters
And at the Department of Labor, we exceeded our goal and placed more than 225000 young men and women in summer youth jobs. "The recession has done more ...

American Youthworks wins training grant for green jobs

Austin American-Statesman
American Youthworks, an Austin-based job-training organization, won a $750000 grant from the US Department of Commerce. The grant will allow the nonprofit ...

Education, training opportunities expected to abound at center

Gothenburg Times
Wolf said the county has a high percentage of manufacturing jobs with similar and different needs—the latter which involves on-the-job training at the ...

Friday, September 4, 2009

Stimulus funds employ 913 youth in Hampton Roads

Suffolk News-Herald
Opportunity Inc. is the staff organization for the Hampton Roads Workforce Development Board, serving eight localities in South and Western Hampton Roads. ...

WORK ONE: Workforce Acceleration Grants can boost education

Muncie Star Press
By TRACY DISHMAN • September 4, 2009 The Indiana Department of Workforce Development and Indiana Commission for Higher Education announced a new program to ...

Summer job program helps Idaho in recession

Idaho Press-Tribune
Beginning in June, government agencies and nonprofit organizations provided jobs for the department's Summer Youth Employment Program at 130 sites across ...

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Justice Department Announces $129 Million in Awards to Support ...

Reuters
... to help prevent at-risk youth from becoming involved in delinquency. The grants will also preserve and create jobs throughout the United States. ...

Other Voices: Stimulus dollars provide training, jobs for young adults

The Union of Grass Valley
At a time when local government, schools and nonprofits are faced with multiple demands, the Summer Youth Employment Program has provided welcomed ...

More than just a summer job

Reno Gazette Journal
... for about 40 Dayton area teens who recently completed the Comstock Youth Works summer job skills training, service learning, and internship program. ...

Workforce development program leaders celebrate first participants

Marion Daily Republican
... the first group of students to finish workforce development traning through the federal Workforce Investment Act portion of the federal stimulus plan. ...

Summer program integrated academics and work

TheRecordLive.com
Thirty-five West Orange – Cove 21st Century Community Learning Center students attended the Workforce Solutions Southeast Texas and Powerzone Summer ...

Gov. unveils new green job training program

Los Angeles Times
The state received $20 million for the job-training effort from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The rest will come from the California Energy ...

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Dept. of Commerce: Gov. Doyle announces grants to aid statewide ...

Wisbusiness.com
The project matches the skills of youth graduating from regional educational institutions with the needs of local employers. Over the past year, ...

Schwarzenegger launches nation's largest state-sponsored green-job program

Schwarzenegger launches nation's largest state-sponsored green-job ...
Bizjournals.com
... low-wage workers and youth preparing to enter the workforce. "By developing a highly trained workforce, ready and capable to perform clean energy jobs, ...

Hitting Home: Summer Employment

Vermont Public Radio
... have had summer jobs in the past ... were able to get work this year. (Greenwood) "And our criteria for our stimulus money was that we work with youth ...

US Wired for Education And SkillSoft Combine Forces To Help Re ...

Reuters
... efficient environment for individuals seeking training. One Stop Centers are located across the country and provide valuable tools to help job seekers, ...

Monday, August 31, 2009

Program's temp jobs turn into steady work for some teens

Contra Costa Times
... part-time thanks to $7 million in federal stimulus dollars given to the San Bernardino County Workforce Investment Board for a youth employment program. ...

Summer jobs program honors 280 youths

Kenosha News.com
“I hope you have taken pride in what you did,” Kenosha County Executive Jim Kreuser told the participants in the Summer Youth Employment Event, ...

It's all about positive energy in YouthBuild program

SouthCoastToday.com
... under the auspices of PACE YouthBuild, the Southeastern Environment Education Alliance (SEEAL), and the Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board. ...

Boot camp kicks off San Joaquin County job-training program

Stockton Record
The so-called mental-toughness camp was held as the kickoff to this year's San Joaquin YouthBuild, a job-training program in the construction trades ...

Developing tomorrow's work force

Journal Times
The Racine County Workforce Development Center and its partners have developed several initiatives to accomplish this. -- Smart Career Restart training ...

44 graduate from summer job camp | thedailyjournal.com | The Daily ...

That kind of life change seemed beyond reach, and perhaps was, until she was accepted into a county-run, federally funded career camp, which is a small part of the much larger Summer Youth Employment Program.

Los Angeles Conservation Corps Wins Federal Job Training Funds

Examiner.com
The US Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $700000 in funding to the Los Angeles Conservation Corps to provide job training for 160 students to ...

Stimulus funds training for new Texas beauticians

Houston Chronicle
And if you're worried about the future of your job, why not grab onto some federal stimulus money to become a beautician? So far this year, $3.8 million in ...

Conservation Corps Puts 200 Youth to Work in New York State Parks

ReadMedia (press release)
Just this summer, he announced the creation of 50000 youth jobs through a combination of stimulus funding and existing resources. ...

Summer job program report

Barnstable Patriot
So our challenge was to establish a program even though we had not had a summer youth jobs program in more than eight years. So, what happened? ...

Stimulus money to put 600 youth to work

Camarillo Acorn
But before graduating from Simi Valley's Royal High School in June, the 18-year-old learned about a summer youth employment program offered through Moorpark ...

Friday, August 28, 2009

Austin receives $2M in HUD stimulus funds for four projects

Bizjournals.com
$500000 to LifeWorks for the purchase of land to construct a 32000-square-foot Resource Center to expand critical workforce, youth development, ...

Helping nature while learning skills: Youth spend summer building ...

Bridgeport News
The students were paid by SCA and by the city through federal stimulus funds targeted to environmentally-related jobs for youth. Sean Maxfield, 17, said he ...

TYP launches youth job bank

Topeka Capital Journal
Georgianna Wong, executive director of the Topeka Youth Project, talks Thursday about the launching of an online youth job bank. The job bank will list job ...

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Tierney sees results of teen workforce program in Lynn

The Daily Item of Lynn
"These kids are so grateful to have a job and to learn," said Mary Sarris, executive director of the North Shore Workforce Investment Board, which partners ...

South Florida Workforce Investment Board Releases an Additional ...

South Florida Caribbean News
MIAMI - The South Florida Workforce Investment Board (SFWIB) recently awarded an additional $8.6 million dollars in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ...

State to give $3.5M to nonprofit group that is hiring in Charlotte

CharlotteObserver.com
The program is administered here by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Workforce Development Board, but the money comes from the federal government through the state ...

Stimulus funds summer jobs for young Md. workers

Examiner.com
Hope was one of 70 young people recruited for an Anne Arundel County summer employment program supported by stimulus dollars. "Youth Works" is the first ...

Program helps youth get work experience

TbNewsWatch.com
More than 4000 disadvantaged youth in 25 Ontario communities participated in the Summer Jobs for Youth program this year.

City CAO reports on youth employment program

Memphis Commercial Appeal
About 3000 teens and young adults took part in the city's Summer Youth Employment Program thanks to $4.9 million in federal stimulus money. ...

Job training to combat blight and help at-risk area youth

Buffalo News
... college preparatory and financial literacy classes and apply on-the-job training to transform vacant houses using state-of-the-art green design. ...

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Work force board awards funds for employee training

Charleston Regional Business
The Trident Workforce Investment Board awarded more than $450000 to local companies for incumbent worker training. The money is going to 22 companies in the ...

Work Force Update: Oklahoma job training groups merge

NewsOK.com
The Cleveland County Workforce Investment Board recently merged with its central Oklahoma peer, providing job training and placement services to job seekers ...

Job Training Initiative Aimed at Inner City Youth

WNED
BUFFALO (wned) - In a bid to get "at-risk" youth off of Buffalo's streets and into productive jobs with a future, Western New York Americorps and PUSH ...

`Youth on the Move' summer jobs program called a success

MiamiHerald.com
City officials, businesses and locals laud the success of Youth on the Move, a program that found summer jobs for more than 70 youth. ...

Summer jobs program dubbed a success

The Daily Sound
25, 2009 After going 10 years without a summer youth jobs program, the county of Santa Barbara roared back into gear this summer, offering temporary ...

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Stimulus money hoped to help jobless catch training

NJBIZ
Brady said the stimulus enables her Workforce Investment Board to provide free training to an additional 400 people this year. The boards were allocated ...

Full Employment Council extends youth program

Richmond Daily News
So far the Full Employment Council's youth program, “Next Generation,” has provided over 60 county youth with jobs this summer. With funds still available, ...

Monday, August 24, 2009

Program gives workers chance to shine

Joliet Herald News
Pizarro was one of more than 400 young people who received part-time jobs through the County Workforce Services Division's Summer Youth Program. ...

Stimulus helps youth find summer work

Post-Bulletin
Yet, through Summer Youth Connections, a Minnesota Workforce Center program that uses stimulus dollars to provide work readiness training and jobs for ...

Green jobs place teens in a learning environment

Fall River Herald News
Harrington, along with six hand-picked southcoast teenagers, have forgone typical summer jobs in order to help the Youth Corps, part of the Trustees of ...

Stimulus funds put local youth to work and provide savings to ...

Fort Madison Daily Democrat
The Region 16 goal of the Summer Youth Employment and Training Program has been to put 220 youth in all four county areas to work in summer jobs and give ...

Workforce Alliance Program Provides Summer Jobs for Over One ...

PR Newswire (press release)
Kathryn Schmidt, President and Chief Executive Officer of Workforce Alliance, said, "The entire community contributed to making the summer youth program ...

Veterans eligible for green jobs training as part of federal grant

Fall River Herald News
As part of the program, veterans will receive skills assessments, individual job counseling, labor market information, classroom or on-the-job training, ...

Stimulus money funds job training

Mount Vernon News
Those dollars funded summer job training programs offered through a partnership between the Knox County Career Center Adult Education program and ...

Friday, August 21, 2009

Mobile job search lab unveiled

Brownsville Herald
PRIMERA — Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos announced this week upcoming visits of a Workforce Solutions Cameron mobile job search lab. ...

Montgomery County summer job program funded by stimulus, doubles ...

Washington Business Journal
The Montgomery County Summer Youth Jobs Program doubled in size from last year with over 126 youth participants. County Executive Isiah Leggett will speak ...

North Light summer internship provides opportunity for teen to ...

Montgomery Newspapers
In particular, North Light Community Center has given 36 other youth summer jobs and all are doing well. In a city filled with so many stories of young ...

Teenagers learn, earn by holding summer jobs

The Republican - MassLive.com
The Regional Employment Board of Hampden County provided summer jobs to 1982 young people this year, in part because it received $5.1 million in federal ...

Summer jobs sponsored by stimulus

Patterson Irrigator
Brittany, 15, is part of Patterson's Summer Youth Employment Program, which enables 40 locals between the ages of 14 and 24 find paid work at local ...

Teens gain valuable work, life experience through summer youth ...

Chisago County Press
Bushard said she would like to offer the program again next summer. She and Bestick are hopeful that some of the $1.6 million Jobs and Training recieved ...

SW Michigan cashes in on job training grants

South Bend Tribune
Upton last month announced $250000 for job training in connection with the Harbor Shores mixed-use development in Benton Harbor. The congressman the same ...

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Alternative high school students to get a lesson in business

Fall River Herald News
The program is funded by three grants, including $125000 from the 21st Century Community Learning Center grant, $43000 from the Workforce Investment Board ...

Texas employers can earn "Cash for Workers"

Kilgore News Herald
The Texas Workforce Commission awarded $500000 in March to the Workforce Solutions East Texas Board to operate the Ready to Work, which currently has eight ...

Workforce Solutions receives stimulus funds to pay for child care

Bizjournals.com
Workforce Solutions Alamo received $17 million from the federal government as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund up to 22 months of ...

Green-job grant: Howard College to use money on wind energy training

San Angelo Standard-Times
The Concho Valley Workforce Development Board presented a grant of up to $80000 to Howard College at its monthly economic development meeting Wednesday. ...

Tri-City Community Action gets stimulus boost to help the poor

Boston Globe
Through stimulus money awarded to it by the North Shore Workforce Investment Board, the agency was able to expand its summer youth program and plans to ...

Summer youth employment service closes for the season

Terrace Standard
“The summer was extremely successful,” said youth services officer Brittany Bingham, explaining that the centre helped many young people with job searches ...

Featherlite receives $521910 grant to assist laid off workers

Cresco Times Plain Dealer
WIA on-the-job training provides training in an actual workplace that teaches workers the specialized skills required to perform a specific occupation. ...

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

City's 'Green Brigade' celebrates summer job program

South Coast Today
Jean Fox of the Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board, which oversaw the distribution of the funds, said the whole experience had been rewarding. ...

$3.3 million in stimulus money generates work

Lansing State Journal
Kowalk, of Lansing, got the job through Capital Area Michigan Works' summer youth employment program. "Without this, I'd probably still be out there just ...

Stimulus Dollars At Work At An Amphitheater Of Their Own Making ...

PR Web (press release)
This summer, over 30 at-risk young people participated in the Summer Youth Employment Program, funded by federal stimulus dollars, at the Gasoline Alley ...

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Teens, Boulder City reap benefits of federal stimulus funds

Las Vegas Sun
Boulder City won a federal grant of $148000 through the Workforce Investment Board to hire up to 50 high school students for the summer. ...

Stimulus money flowing into Guilford

Greensboro News Record
The Guilford County Workforce Development Board, a regional job training agency run through the city, was among the first local organizations to get money ...

Stimulus workers employed in a variety of summer jobs

Urbana Daily Citizen
"We were able to get extensions for some of the youth that really enjoyed their jobs," Yost said. "We have one young lady who will be working in this ...

Stimulus helps youths and employers

Mount Airy News
However, the North Surry High School student's quest for work ended happily, thanks to the Summer Youth Employment Program funded by the federal stimulus ...

Stimulus dollars help Valley youths get jobs

Arizona Republic
The city will request $725000 in the fall for the 2010 summer-employment program, Valencia said. Summer Youth Employment Services replaced a similar program ...

Peninsula-wide program put 85 teens to work this summer

Peninsula Daily
At the finale of the Summer Youth Employment Program on Friday at Peninsula College, she reminded attendees that Pathways is an additional year-round ...

Federal money put three times as many local young people to work

TMCnet
Thanks to federal stimulus money, which includes $1.2 billion for youth employment nationwide and $41.1 million in Pennsylvania, officials at Job Training ...

Stutchman Is a Woman on a Mission

Shelly Stutchman, North Central Workforce Investment Board chairman, is a woman with a mission to gain nationwide recognition for the way the stimulus is working in this area. Basically the money is being used to train or retrain displaced workers. She is taking the mission to the White House and President Barrack Obama.
She has been in touch by e-mail and telephone with the White House about the success of the stimulus dollars designed to put people to work.
Pioneer Technology Center was informed earlier by the Oklahoma Securities Commission that funding would be available from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to provide funding for training through Northern Oklahoma Workforce Investment Board . Ponca City Development Authority was also involved.
Stutchman, Enid, has already been in touch with the White House, by phone and e-mail. She recalls attending a conference in Washington D.C. in March, where former President Bill Clinton was a speaker. Clinton said, "The stimulus is not a solution, but a bridge over troubled waters, which we desperately need."
The NOWIB, which covers a nine county area, received $800,000 in funds in June. The officers had written letters to all the career centers in the area offering to buy classes to help provide better jobs in Oklahoma.
Stutchman said, "Pioneer Technology sent a wonderful proposal to us. In July we received all proposals and we purchased classes for PTC. We got to use our money in a positive way."
PTC Training
About the money to be spent in Ponca City at PTC, Stutchman said, "I was excited that we got to use the money in a town that had been hurt by the economy and by the loss of jobs at ConocoPhillips and Tyson, so it seemed like exactly what President Obama wanted us to do with the Recovery Dollars."
Currently Pioneer Tech is receiving $65,000 to buy classes. At the next meeting of the NOWIB Broad, Stutchman said $150,000 more for classes may be awarded and PTC may have a chance for more classes.
Immediate past chairman of NOWIB, Brad Parker, president of Parker Pest Control, said, "Anytime we have dealt with government there has always been a lot of red tape. In business you make a decision and implement it right now. When you are dealing with the government it takes months and months to get the smallest thing done. With the stimulus the government got on the ball and PTC got on the ball and provided a proposal and it was done right away."
Touching the White House
Stutchman found an address on the Internet for Obama and sent a message that said, "We have used the stimulus money in a positive manner and I think it would be great for you to come to Oklahoma and let us visit with you about what we've done and you could show America the direct effect it has had in Oklahoma."
Then she began getting some form e-mails back. On one of those was a phone number. She called it and a lady answered, "White House." Rather taken back Stutchman asked, "The White House of the United States of America?" The White House operator said "Yes."
Stutchman began to tell the story and the operator said, "That is exactly what we want to hear," and gave her a number to call for Public Affairs. When she called this number a voice mail asked for her to leave a short synopsis of why she had called that it might be several days or months before they got back to her.
Mission Not Impossible?
"I didn't want to stop there. I thought I had a glimmer of hope." She began compiling a high class notebook to send the White House. One of the things she included was The Ponca City News story about the president's mother living in Ponca City. Next step will be sending the notebook to Oprah Winfrey.
Stutchman, of Enid, a Professional Service s Coordinator for Carter Health Care and Hospice, has educational experience in marketing and writing.
She is determined to follow this mission through saying, "We, the NOWIB, are on a roll and we are using the funds right. We are a role model and we are changing lives." She plans to continue the mission saying, "I'm gong to continue until they say 'stop you are a nut.'"

Monday, August 17, 2009

A summer of change

Baltimore Sun
By Olivia Bobrowsky To celebrate the end of a summer youth program, at-risk Baltimore teens came together Friday to show off their accomplishments. ...

Teens explore 'green-collar' jobs at Finger Lakes Community College

MPNnow.com
“This is one of the culminating events of the summer youth program,” said Kathy Guy, director of FLCC's Bridge Program, which provides short-term assistance ...

Federal dollars turning into youth jobs

Press-Enterprise
Funding from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Oasis Youth Opportunity Center in Perris is one of the agencies that received funding ...

Federal stimulus funds summer jobs for young workers

Annapolis Capital
Hope was one of 70 young people recruited for a county summer employment program supported by stimulus dollars. "Youth Works" is the first county program of ...

Free computers are an incentive in job club

Lincoln Journal Star
They meet at the Nebraska Workforce Development Center and Bennett Martin Library in downtown Lincoln. The project is run through Experience Works (a ...

Walmart Foundation's Green Jobs Training Initiative Awards $550000 ...

The FINANCIAL
... of the Conservation Corps of Long Beach; Bryan Rogers, Executive Director of Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Board; and Conservation Corps members. ...

Grant to fund wind-energy class

Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Secretary Roberta Gassman awarded a $100000 grant to the North Central Wisconsin Workforce Development Board ...

Job seekers turn out for Pee Dee employment forum

South Carolina Now
By Jamie Rogers FLORENCE — Job seekers in the Pee Dee received some extra help in their employment search Saturday during a job forum held by the SC ...

Program teaches youth value of hard work

Lebanon Daily News
Known as the Summer Youth Employment and Training Program, it involved classroom time as well as on-site jobs. In the classroom, the students learned things ...

Young adults spend summer cleaning up East Oakland

Oakland Tribune
He said the work they do through the program gives hope to community youth. It shows that they can get jobs and be productive during the summer. ...

Kitsap Youths Benefit From Summer Jobs, Courtesy of Stimulus Money

Kitsap Sun
Then Torrison discovered the Summer Youth Employment Program. She's spent the last few months learning video editing — and got paid for it. ...

Stimulus dollars help Valley youth in job training

Arizona Republic
Booth now lives with a roommate and says she enjoys her work screen printing T-shirts. "It's by far the most artistic, creative job I've ever had," said ...

School's in for turbine trainees

Seattle Post Intelligencer
The majority of the students have their $11000 tuition completely paid for by job-training grants, said Arch Miller, founder of the institute, ...

North central Ohio counties cooperate for job-training grants

Mansfield News Journal
By TERRICHA BRADLEY • News Journal • August 15, 2009 MANSFIELD -- Counties in north central Ohio are seeking economic development and work force training ...

college program provides training to 87 residents who lost jobs

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
College officials partnered with the Westmoreland/Fayette Workforce Investment Board and Pennsylvania CareerLink to offer short-term skills training for ...

Youth employment program offers lasting experience through ...

Lynchburg News and Advance
Danny Inge, executive director of the Region 2000 Workforce Investment Board, said, “All the Workforce Investment Boards … see the value of utilizing this. ...

WCCC Grads Get Fresh Start, Ready To Re-Enter Workforce

ThePittsburghChannel.com
... been laid off may be eligible for retraining this fall thanks to a program called "Back to Work," which is sponsored by the Workforce Investment Board. ...

Training grant for future Energy Composites employees announced

Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
The grant, awarded to the North Central Wisconsin Workforce Development Board, is part of Gov. Jim Doyle's Emerging Industries Skills Partnership and will ...

Stimulated to work Federal funds put youth on the job maintaining ...

Ashland Times Gazette
Eleven youths, mostly from the Ashland area, are working at Mohican as a summer job. They work through the Workforce Investment Act in a special Transitions ...

Teaching is the new hot job as recession forces career changes

Dallas Morning News
"Then I started spending all day coaching kids in youth sports and thought I could do this as a career. I could give back." Teachers are struggling to find ...

Friday, August 14, 2009

Joint venture to provide jobs for youths with disabilities

Hannibal.net
This summer, Learning Opportunities/Quality Works, Inc.(LOQWI) is collaborating with Gamm, Inc., the Northeast Missouri Workforce Investment Board (WIB), ...

Wake Tech Unveils JobsNOW Training

MyNC.com
The Capital Area Workforce Development Board has set up a hotline to help potential students determine if they are eligible for financial assistance. ...

WSU project a finalist for national award

Bizjournals.com
... a Wichita State University project, is a finalist for a University Economic Development Association's Excellence in Workforce Development award. ...

Stimulus grants to bring investment, jobs to Wayne County

Journal Newspapers
“Michigan has provided manufacturers with research and development grants, as well as made heavy investments in workforce development. ...

The learning never ends

The News-Press
That money pot allows the Southwest Florida Workforce Development Board to extend its help to more employed workers than ever before. ...

Federal Stimulus Dollars Create Meaningful Jobs for Troubled Youth

KPVI-TV
Youth across the state paired up with different agencies this summer. Michael Eldridge worked with Idaho Fish and Game Officers, spraying noxious weeds, ...

Youth project training to impress

Yuma Sun
BY ANNE SLAGILL, SUN STAFF WRITER Editor's note: The Yuma Private Industry Council has developed several summer youth projects, paid for by stimulus funds ...

Job-training program shows stimulus at work

Hinchey Times Herald-Record
The county's Employment and Training Administration hired more than 300 participants last summer and was able to increase that number by more than 200 this ...

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Workforce summer youth program a success

Parkersburg News
... through the federal Recovery and Reinvestment Act, was sponsored by workforce West Virginia and the workforce Investment Board of the Mid-Ohio Valley. ...

Virtual call center to bring about 100 jobs

Wyoming Business Report
By Staff CHEYENNE – State business and workforce development leaders have announced that Alpine Access Inc., a provider of virtual contact center solutions, ...

New Career Series Targeting Young Professionals

Inside INdiana Business (press release)
Indianapolis Private Industry Council is the source for workforce development in Central Indiana. IPIC convenes community leaders to address important ...

AIA Estimates 270K Jobs Could Come From American Clean Energy ...

By otto
With the encouragement of Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV), the AIA conducted a study to determine how many jobs in the design and construction industry could be created if the American Clean Energy Security Act (H.R. 2454; also known as the ... to use for a number of activities, including training, supporting, and providing financing to eligible community development organizations and qualified youth service and conservation corps in improving energy efficiency ...

Connecting the disconnected

Albert Lea Tribune
Theresa Spiering, youth counselor with Workforce Development Inc., which has overseen the program locally, said the funds received this year more than ...

Teen gives rodeo extra pair of hands

Fergus Falls Daily Journal
Jacob Swenso was hired to work at RHRA this summer through Rural Minnesota CEP's Summer Youth Program, which uses federal stimulus dollars to fund jobs for ...

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

City Provides “Green” Job Training

Atlanta Intown
The Atlanta Workforce Development Agency was responsible for training the 20 youths to install the energy-saving devices. ...

Youths give park a much-needed face-lift

South Coast Today
The Greater New Bedford Youth Council, a division of the Workforce Investment Board, employs teens in a variety of projects that are supposed to prepare ...

Construction progresses at Iowa Central

Fort Dodge Messenger
Iowa Central has partnered with Iowa Workforce Development to offer career training and tuition assistance to unemployed Iowans in Iowa Central's ...

ETA News Release: U.S. Department of Labor awards $10 million to...

Macomb/St. Clair Workforce Development Board Inc. Michigan. Demand occupations in multiple industries. $979400. South Central Workforce Investment Board. Pennsylvania. Health care, Information Technology and Advanced Manufacturing ...

Interns get a good start

Florida Today
Using $847000 in federal stimulus money, the Emerge! program, sponsored by the Brevard Workforce Development Board, will offer about 250 summer internships ...

REACT- Job Training And Assistance Center Opens

WFMY News 2
REACT is funded by federal stimulus money and operated by the Northwest Piedmont Workforce Development Board. What makes the program special is that several ...

Denver gains 4800 health, education jobs through recession

Bizjournals.com
Nationwide, employment in the two sectors has risen by nearly a quarter-million jobs in the nation's 100 biggest labor markets since mid-2008, according to ...

Summer workers reap success

Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
Overall, workforce Essentials' summer youth employment program placed 862 qualified young people aged 14 – 24 years old into part-time or full-time jobs in ...

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Laid-off workers seize fresh start

Detroit Free Press
... Michigan launched its No Worker Left Behind initiative, one thing's for certain: Laid-off workers can't get enough of the popular job-training program. ...

Chamber, eco. development benefit from Next Generation Jobs Team

Boonville Daily News
Thanks to funding made possible through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the Missouri Division of Workforce Development (MODWD), ...

Job seekers bet on green, Jersey hopes to lead way

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
... training at the Hispanic Family Center in Camden. The father of one learned how to test home insulation. After graduating July 1, he landed a job with ...

Job Corps groundbreaking

Ottumwa Courier
The center, set for completion in November 2010 with classes beginning the next year, will provide job training for more than 500 students and bring in over ...

Finding a Calling in this Economy

It's Workforce Solutions' summer youth program that has allowed teens and young adults like Jeremy to get work experience. Through the program, Jeremy got picked-up by Garden World which has developed into an even greater opportunity. ...

Summer jobs, a splendid stimulus

Asheville Citizen-Times
The Obama administration's infusion of $1.2 billion in stimulus funds for youth summer jobs promises to give hundreds of thousands of young people ...

Mural project an education, job for Kent-Meridian students

Rowe is part of the King County Work Training Program, which has partnered with Kent Parks and Recreation to give 14 incoming high-school seniors an opportunity to receive job training and to work with a professional artist on two new ...

Harford Group Will Provide Green Job Training through EPA

U.S. EPA.gov
"Not only will this funding help jump start local economies – we'll be providing needed job training and putting people to work creating a cleaner and ...

LB's Green Jobs Center attracts funding from EPA

The Board is especially pleased that this is the third Green Job grant the Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network has been associated with in recent months,” said Shaun Lumachi, Workforce Investment Board Chair. ...

Federal grant will help train job seekers

WatertownDailyTimes.com
The program could plug prospective employees into existing programs through the Workforce Investment Board, Jefferson Community College and the ...

Governor Doyle Announces $3.4 Million Grant to Assist Over 1200

By Racine News Team
Services are being coordinated by the Department of Workforce Development and provided through the Bay Area Workforce Development Board. The effort also will involve the AFL-CIO Labor Education and Training Center in providing services. ...

$3.4 million grant to assist 1200 laid-off workers

Bizjournals.com
Services are being coordinated by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development and provided through the Bay Area Workforce Development Board

DavidsonWorks to accept award at conference

Lexington Dispatch
TriadWorks is the regional consortium of six workforce development boards: DavidsonWorks, Greensboro/High Point/Guilford County Workforce Development Board, ...

Live Oak Council approves Depot project

Gridley Herald
"This would generate jobs in the community, create training opportunities for local Live Oak youth to go to work. Kids could work their way up to Assistant ...

Stimulus funds flowing into Sonoma County and the Valley

By Sonoma Valley Sun
Thirty-two at-risk youth aged 14 to 24 in the Valley, and a total of 330 county-wide, have been empowered, and have had summer jobs thanks to the Workforce Investment Grant. Social Advocates for Youth partnered with the Sonoma County ...

Aurora police camp introduces teens to jobs in law enforcement

Chicago Tribune
The Law Enforcement Youth Academy started in June 2004, and was developed by Pamela Bradley, administrator of the Community Prosecution Unit for the Kane ...

Summer youth job program builds skills, community

Barnstable Patriot
Implemented through the Job Training and Employment Corporation (JTEC) with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the local Summer Youth ...

Training in trades to help local youths

Milford Daily News
"You getting into a permanent job is one of the ways to get this economy going again," McGovern said. The training initiative has a short-term benefit in ...

City of Miami will provide green job training through EPA

Environmental Expert
The Miami Brownfields Job Training Program will employ residents and facilitate the cleanup of brownfields by providing free “green job” training for 120 ...

Friday, August 7, 2009

Local auto firms expect jobs

Greenville News
Dave Just, Spartanburg County Community College's vice president of corporate and community education, said college and Workforce Investment Board officials ...

Workforce Development begins Energy Academy

Austin Herald
By Herald staff (Contact) | Austin Daily Herald ALBERT LEA — Workforce Development, Inc. in Albert Lea began their second Renewable Energy Academy on Monday ...

Grant aids state efforts to help jobless

Springfield Business Journal
The DED's Division of Workforce Development will work with the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to implement the grant and provide enhanced ...

White paper: The Green Coast Innovation Zone

Pacific Coast Business Times
Workforce Development and Financing: to focus economic and workforce development efforts, in conjunction with educational and business partners, ...

50 jobs in 50 states: California man wrapping up employment quest

HollandSentinel.com
Daniel Seddiqui, working this week as a scout for the Brockton Rox, is on a yearlong journey to work 50 jobs in 50 states, spending a week in each position. ...

Work force centers help youths obtain summer internships

The Coloradoan
"It's much more than a job; it's more of a program where these youth can work through the hurdles of becoming a successful employee," he said. ...

Stimulus dollars help employ youth

Fergus Falls Daily Journal
In the Underwood and Battle Lake communities, 25 young people are working summer jobs through the program. Designed to provide youth with experience needed ...

Stimulus helps young people get work in hard times

The Olympian
If past history is any indicator, some of those seasonal jobs will be extended by the employers after the program ends. The youth summer employment program ...

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Small actions bring individual fulfillment

Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin
Maryellen Brett, the executive director of the South Coastal Workforce Investment Board (WIB), recalled the pay-it-forward coffee story she saw on the ...

Green Job Corps Provides Youth With Eco-Friendly Work [Grunion ...

TMCnet
Parsons said the Green Corps grant was submitted by the network on May 22 and the money was awarded to the Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Board on ...

Nonprofit Receives $1 Million Boost For Older Workers

Inside INdiana Business (press release)
... (TAP) Inc. has received a $1 million grant from the US Department of Labor to expand work force development services for workers age 55 and older. ...

Low-income Atlantans go green

Atlanta Journal Constitution
The effort was spearheaded by the Atlanta Workforce Development Agency as a multi-city agency campaign to work with recent Atlanta Public Schools graduates ...

'Stimulus' Jobs Offer Skills, Paycheck to Disadvantaged Youth

Voice of America
But for youth who face challenges to finding work even in a strong economy, Mastroeni says, the confidence and skills they gain in these subsidized jobs ...

Larimer County Workforce Center summer youth employment programs ...

The Coloradoan
This was the first year that the workforce center's Summer Internships and Larimer County Youth Conservation Corps were able to infuse funding from the ...

Youth jobs program extended to March

Rockford Register Star
Caprisa Moore (from left), Charity Pinson and Terrissa Christopher, all of Rockford, listen during a class for the Summer Youth Jobs Program on Thursday, ...

Federal Stimulus Money Funds Local Summer Youth Employment Programs

Ithaca Journal
This summer employment program focuses specifically on youth ages 14-24 years old who are economically disadvantaged or face barriers to academic ...

Community colleges launch new job training programs

News14.com
CHARLOTTE – Community colleges across the state announced that they will use federal stimulus money to create job training programs for thousands of people ...

OAI Inc., Innovative Workforce Development, to Provide Green Job ...

U.S. EPA.gov (press release)
Acting Regional Administrator William Rice said, “The Brownfields Job Training Program is an avenue for residents from disadvantaged communities to receive ...

Tacoma gets $500K in stimulus funds to teach 'brownfields' cleanup

Bizjournals.com
Training will consist of eight 98-hour or 212-hour programs. “This brownfields job training program will put people to work in jobs that help clean up the ...

St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corporation Will Provide ...

U.S. EPA.gov (press release)
Since 1998, EPA has awarded more than $25 million in brownfields job training funds. More than 5000 people have completed EPA-funded training programs, ...

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Video of Spokane area Youth Summer Program

City Colleges of Chicago Receives Almost $1 Million to Provide ...

Chicago Press Release Services (press release)
About 450 people age 19-24 are taking advantage of summer jobs, ranging from positions at Washburne Culinary Institute's Sikia Restaurant, to administrative ...

Local teens, businesses, benefit from summer work program

International Falls Daily Journal
Participants in the Northeast Minnesota Office of Job Training's Summer Youth employment program should look back on their summer jobs with different ...

Federal stimulus package opens up doors for low-income youth with...

Santa Cruz Sentinel
The Summer Program will also be repeated. In addition to creating jobs, the five-week SYEP has created community work for youth who are making major ...

Promoting Innovations to 21st Century Careers

By mscorp
But even if we succeed in developing a deep pool of highly skilled IT workers in the U.S., there will still be substantial workforce development needs to keep the U.S. economy evolving and growing long-term. For instance, there has been ...

Jobs are available in Dawson County

Lexington Clipper Herald
At Workforce Development, Walton, along with coworkers Katy Schulte and Barb Montoya, have a variety of resources available to land jobs for their clients. ...

Emerging Industries Receive Growth Investments

WISC
State Workforce Development Secretary Roberta Gassman said a $100000 state training grant will help prepare workers for future jobs in biotech, ...

Stimulus helps students step into work force

Roanoke Times
Without the stimulus boost, it would have hired only about 84, said Linda Matthews, vice president for work-force development. Instead, the extra federal ...

CPCC launches job-training program

Bizjournals.com
... must meet certain criteria and complete the “Eight Steps to WIA Funding” being offered through the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Workforce Development Board. ...

Walmart Foundation's Green Jobs Training Initiative Awards $550000

WebWire
The MAWIB is the local workforce development board for the Milwaukee area and serves as the lead agency for the coordination, planning and administration of ...

Ohio has 132 new jobs from stimulus

Farm and Dairy - The Auction ...
Corps members will remove invasive species on state forests, learn how to fight wildfires and receive extensive training and certification. Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland said the stimulus dollars used to fund the job program is a wise ...

Leaders hope green jobs will help heal employment void

By Jonathan Tamari and Matthew Spolar / The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA — When Ronald Tucker, a sheet-metal worker who had bounced among at least ...

$1.2 billion for summer jobs

By Tami Luhby, CNNMoney.com
With teen summer employment expected to hit its lowest level since 1948, the federal government is pumping $1.2 billion in stimulus money into job training programs for youth.

Recovery in Action: Creating Jobs and Assisting States

By Obama Chronicles
The programs, being conducted at El Paso Community College, the University of Texas at El Paso and La Fe, are part of Workforce Solutions Upper Rio Grande's summer youth program, an annual effort. But more than $1.1 million in stimulus ...

Workforce Solutions offers special help to visually impaired

By Paul Ivice With the installation of some new software on its computer, Workforce Solutions of the Treasure Coast has lowered some obstacles for visually ...

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Free Training for More Than 500 Jobs Openings Forecasted for Local ...

News Channel 7 - SC,USA
“Through a partnership with the Workforce Investment Board, SCC will provide the continuing education training for these positions that will train workers ...

Labor Department Awards $10 Million to Retrain Older Workers

U.S. News & World Report
The Baltimore County Office of Workforce Development, one of the grantees, plans to use its $967005 award to move lower skilled older workers into the ...

Area students to get funding and support to build robots

Southeast Missourian - Cape Girardeau,MO,USA
The WIRED Initiative of the Workforce Investment Board of Southeast Missouri and Southeast Missouri State University are teaming up to help area high ...

Oregon Bioscience Association receives $200000 grant

Bizjournals.com
Worksystems Inc. funding, which comes from the Oregon Department of Community Colleges and Work Force Development, underwrites classes in Multnomah and ...

MDC Announces Funding for Midland College Wind Energy Workforce ...

KOSA
The MDC and Midland College are also working together with Workforce Solutions Permian Basin to determine if there are available resources through the ...

DCCC to hold JobsNOW information sessions

Lexington Dispatch
DCCC and DavidsonWorks, the Davidson County Workforce Development Board, have identified and developed continuing education career pathways for which ...

Green Collar Jobs Sprout this Summer in NM

Public News Service
SANTA FE, NM - Green collar jobs are sprouting up this summer in the Land of Enchantment. A crew of young adults spent the past few months getting some low- ...

Youth Conservation Corps benefits teens, natural areas

Ashland Daily Tidings
Administered by the Portland Bureau of Parks and Recreation, the Youth Conservation Corps is one of a number of summer youth jobs programs under way in the ...

Job Training Center to track teens' bonuses

Red Bluff Daily News
The Job Training Center is combining a special celebration event with an awareness opportunity and inviting Tehama County businesses to join in. ...

Monday, August 3, 2009

State debuts guide for the out-of-work

Indianapolis Star
Beginning today at all WorkOne centers statewide, the Department of Workforce Development will have available a 19-page color booklet titled "Resource Guide ...

Stimulus money gives youths jobs, opportunity

Contra Costa Times
Cayson said BioCare hopes to hire some of the interns full-time after the summer. Sealy wants to get one of those full-time jobs. "I like, you know, ...

Florida gets $165M to help job-seekers

MiamiHerald.com
Byrne figures job-seekers need all the help they can get. He visited Workforce One's Hollywood employment office regularly before he started training. ...

Job program aimed at youth

Omaha World-Herald
They hope to see the Summer Youth Program — part of the federal stimulus legislation — become a permanent fixture, like the summer jobs programs the ...

Employers honored for job placement efforts

Burlington Times News
... excellence in partnering with the Regional Partnership Workforce Development Board, which coordinates with Regional Consolidated Services of Asheboro. ...

At-risk youth and community reap rewards from garden

The Detroit News
Still others, like Amyre Gardner, 20, became involved because it meant an opportunity to make some money at a time when summer jobs -- or jobs any time, ...

Local youth jobs program gets spotlight

Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
by Freddy Hunt / Kalamazoo Gazette KALAMAZOO -- Michigan Works! showcased its summer youth employment program to nearly 30 government officials from ...

Danbury jobs training program in line for federal funding

Connecticut Post
By Dirk Perrefort DANBURY -- A $100000 federal grant that could help more people in the community get the job training they need has cleared its first ...

$1M awarded for job training

The Detroit News
Agency serving job hunters in Wayne and Monroe counties -- has seen the number of people using its job training course nearly double in the last year. ...

School, bioscience firms to be WIRED together

Northern Colorado Business Report
By Kristen Tatti Thanks to a workforce development grant, the region's bioscience firms could expect a steady flow of technical workers in the ...

Training for high potential jobs planned

Wilkes Journal Patriot
Dull said the professions targeted with the courses resulted from a cooperative effort between WCC, High Country Workforce Development Board, NC Employment ...

Teens Celebrate Completion of Summer Jobs Before Start of School Year

KBMT ABC 12
Workforce Solutions and The PowerZone teamed up with local businesses, non-profits and schools for to create summer jobs as part of the GOOD Summer Youth ...

Youth Employment Program hires teens across the Wiregrass

WTVY
The Alabama Career Center System placed youth from 16 to 24 years-old in non-hazardous jobs for the summer. Wages for the summer youth employment program ...

Free job training program coming back to Gulfport

WLOX
... students who will come to the center daily for training, for a total of 136 students," said Alexander Alston, Director of the Gulfport Job Corps. ...

EPA Awards Recovery Act Funds to Provide Green Job ....

U.S. EPA.gov (press release)
CHICAGO – Eighty Chicagoans will receive critical job training funded by an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson ...

Friday, July 31, 2009

Local schools invited to build robots with Southeast MO State ...

KFVS
Southeast Missouri State University and the WIRED Initiative of the Workforce Investment Board and the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology ...

US Department of Labor awards $10 million to train older workers ...

PR Newswire (press release)
... Maine Health care and $1000000 Workforce Inc. Energy/Green Construction Baltimore Maryland Health care $967005 Country Office of Workforce Development ...

Grants to help pay for two-year college programs

Chicago Tribune
The Department of Workforce Development says grants will be awarded on a first come, first served basis. Applicants can be low income or unemployed through ...

Grants Available For Local Businesses | Hickory, NC Community Blog

By admin
The Western Piedmont Workforce Development Board is offering local businesses in the Unifour region of Catawba Alexander, Burke and Caldwell counties up to $20000. The organization established the Local Incumbent Workforce Grant, ...

Grant gives youth 'green' job opportunity

Beloit Daily News
... said Ron Coppernoll, community outreach liaison for the Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board, another partner on the project. ...

Group awarded $1M to train older workers

Bizjournals.com
The US Department of Labor on Thursday announced that it has awarded the Fox Valley Workforce Development Board $1 million to fund training designed to ...

Summer Youth Employment Program Going Well

Ruralnorthwest.com
The Idaho Department of Labor Workforce Training Center is very pleased with the mid-season results of the Summer Youth Employment Program supported by the ...

Program gives kids a leg up

The Desert Sun
Nine hundred youth applied to be a part of the summer program in May, Barajas said. Those selected went through work readiness workshops and orientations, ...

Summer jobs stimulated by feds

Marshall County Tribune
By Clint Confehr, Senior Staff Writer Forty-three offices and shops in Marshall County have employed more than 90 people in the summer youth jobs program ...

Program finds summer jobs for 225 students

Tuscaloosa News (subscription)
The Summer Youth Employment Program was funded through federal stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. ...

J'ville teen honored for her work ethic after joining state's ...

Jacksonville Daily Progress
Today, Pierson, along with 25 other East Texas youth, will be honored at the Summer Youth Employment Program award luncheon hosted by the Workforce ...

More funding for training low income workers

Coon Rapids Herald
This was a competitive grant process, according to Sandy Froiland, assistant job training center director. State funding for the Steps to Success program ...

Job training opportunities available for Ohio's older workers

The Beacon
Through the SCSEP, Experience Works assists older people with self-assessments, technical and skills training, the job search process, and finding an ...

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Workforce investment during recession

WLFI.com
That group is being targeted by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. Commissioner Teresa Voors said a future grant will create a program through ...

State to hire 66 workers with recovery funds

Bizjournals.com
The additional staff will provide re-employment services at employment and training centers across the state. In particular, they will work with individuals ...

Goodwill Graduates First Summer Youth Program Funded By ARRA ...

Greenville News
(Greenville SC) Fourteen Greenville youth graduated from the first Food Service Summer Youth Employment Program hosted by Goodwill Industries of ...

Stimulus funds for job seekers

Lynnwood Enterprise
... apprenticeships, on-the-job training and group trainings. If you need funding for training, call coordinator Sheila Dersham at 425-422-4174. ...

Community Workforce Solutions Awarded Workforce Development Grant

PRLog.Org (press release)
Through job training and placement services, persons with disabilities and other barriers to employment are placed in productive positions and encouraged to ...

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Doyle announces $4 million for dislocated Wisconsin workers

WKOW-TV.com
The extra services will be made available through 10 regional Workforce Development Boards. "This funding will help employees increase their skills and ...

County seeks 'Enterprise Zone' to assist with economic recovery

Daily Freeman Journal
However, if anyone has not received the information, or misplaced it, they are encouraged to contact Iowa Workforce Development for more information. ...

Local groups team up to improve workers' skills

Greenville News
Its members are already involved with work force development, and Greenville Works would coordinate efforts and provide leadership. ...

Students spend summer learning engineering with a twist

Frederick News Post (subscription)
He sat next to a representative from Johns Hopkins at a state Workforce Development meeting and struck up a conversation about STEM. ...

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Get Economic Recovery Information at the ...

By James Parks
Meanwhile, the institute is arranging a series of phone listening sessions in September with Jane Oates, assistant labor secretary for employment and training, with labor representatives on workforce investment boards. ...

One Stop channels fed money into jobs

Appeal-Democrat
Local mural artist and youth project task-master Louie Lethridge put in his last 2 cents of the day. "If you're not getting the color you want, ...

Clothing and job preparation program intended to get youth hired

Columbia Missourian
Through the help of The Intersection, an after-school and summer program for at-risk youth, she has taken early steps down that path by getting her first ...

Young workers beat economy

The Olympian
And my friends are looking for jobs, too,” she said. But Stephens, who will be a senior at Yelm Extension School, signed up for the summer youth employment ...

Youth discover jobs program

The Tennessean
The Youth CAN program, a division of Mid-Cumberland Human Resources Agency, is a summer program designed to provide meaningful and productive employment ...

To Create Jobs, Tennessee Looks to New Deal Model

New York Times
Other states are still drawing up plans for spending the welfare money, which is typically used for items like cash grants for families and job training. ...

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Programs prepare workers in six months

Richmond County Daily Journal
“Our department has worked closely with the Richmond County ESC JobLink Career Center and the Pee Dee Region Workforce Development Board to select courses ...

Library opens employment services Business First of Louisville

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The Louisville Free Public Library has opened The Job Shop, a free employment and career-services center, at the main branch, 301 York St. The Job Shop ...

Stimulus creates 12000 teen jobs

The Tennessean
JULIET — As she searched for what would be her first summer job, Jasmine Frazier hit dead end after dead end. Clothing stores and boutiques near her ...

Bill includes $250000 for BH job training

St. Joseph Herald Palladium (subscription)
Fred Upton announced Friday he was successful in securing $250000 for job training in Benton Harbor. Upton, R-St. Joseph, secured the funding in the Labor, ...

HoustonWorks USA part I

Examiner.com - USA
Job Training and Placement, Scholarships, Consulting, Technical Initiatives focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Summer Job ...

Monday, July 27, 2009

Summer program readies students for workplace

Chapman High School rising junior Andrew Jackson was a little worried about finding a job this summer, let alone one that could be scheduled around the summer course he needed to make up on practical law.

Stimulus money helps put Lee, Collier students to work ...

Naples Daily News
The Southwest Florida Workforce Development Board, which received $2.3 million to distribute among the five counties it oversees, partnered with the school ...

Federal stimulus money helps Wisconsin DNR fight invasive species

FOX 21 Online - Duluth,MN,USA
The Secretary of the Department of Workforce Development, Roberta Gassman, said it's something the DNR has relied upon volunteers to do up until now. ...

Jobs keep COYOTEs busy

Kingman Daily Miner - Kingman,AZ,USA
By Tiffany Miller, Kayla Renninger KINGMAN - COalition YOuth TEam participants are learning a variety of job duties while working in the community. ...

Summer internships for youth are becoming jobs

The Desert Sun - Palm Springs,CA,USA
An Indio Win Center summer work program funded by economic stimulus money is helping local teens get hired for jobs. There are 220 youth, mostly from Indio, ...

$118K to aid youth in jobs

Berkshire Eagle - Pittsfield,MA,USA
The Berkshire County Regional Employment Board's Youth Council has chosen six program operators to receive $118267 for youth programs this summer. ...

Many choices face those seeking college training

Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
If you need vocational training, consider a job training agency, such as Work Force One in Broward County or Workforce Alliance in Palm Beach County. ...

Increased Job training grants help Tennessee workers

Examiner.com - USA
Governor Bredesen recently said "Job training to upgrade the skills of Tennessee's workers is one of the best things we can do for our economy. ...

Western Pennsylvania job-seekers keep faith

Tribune Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... increasingly busy church-related and faith-based initiatives in the Pittsburgh region that offer job search, job training and career development ...
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Program puts young adults to work in Indiana state parks

New Albany Tribune - IN,USA
The program's $24 million price tag is covered by federal stimulus money and managed by the Indiana DNR and the state's Development of Workforce Development ...

New job club to aid unemployed older than 50

Lincoln Journal Star - Lincoln,Nebraska,USA
The program is sponsored by Nebraska Workforce Development, Experience Works and the Lincoln Area Agency on Aging Operation ABLE Program. ...

Stimulus dollars at work in Beaver Dam

Beaver Dam Daily Citizen - Beaver Dam,WI,USA
"Right now Beaver Dam is buying the paint and the Workforce Development Board provides the labor at no cost to the city," Stoiser said. ...

Stimulus money provides local youth with work experience

Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription)
Hill started working 30 hours a week at the dog training, grooming and day care center in late June through Workforce Solutions' Summer Youth Employment ...

North Dakota, a Place to Go for Employment

New York Times
By PHYLLIS KORKKI The state job service agency in North Dakota is bursting with openings — a total of more than 9000 in the public and private sectors. ...

Students teaming up with Habitat for Humanity

Sault Star - Sault Ste-Marie,Ontario,Canada
The opportunity of employment for youth was made possible by the Summer Jobs for Youth program which is part of the Youth Opportunities Strategy at Sault ...

Stimulus dollars put youths on task

Berkshire Eagle - Pittsfield,MA,USA
In addition to those listed above, other organizations have received a share of the stimulus funds to provide jobs for youth: The Corporation for Public ...

Time Is Up For Thousands Of Mid-State Workers

NewsChannel5.com
Stegall was one of nearly 13000 young Tennesseans who participated in the state's summer youth jobs program funded by Federal stimulus dollars. ...

Stimulus sparks hope for young men in summer job program

Canton Repository
Lilly Davenport, a youth job training specialist who works with Boone, said the barbershop training was a result of feedback from those taking part in the ...

It's hard work getting a summer job

OCRegister
Youth employment and training programs in Orange County are getting an $8.8 million boost from the federal stimulus act. That helps, but a summer job these ...

Full Employment Council about halfway to youth jobs goal

Kansas City Star
The objective of the Summer Youth Program is to employ 1000 young people by the end of the summer season, Sept. 30. The program is funded with $3 million in ...

House approves $150000 for Floyd Co. job training program

WSLS.com
9th District Congressman Rick Boucher says the House approved the money for job training. The Jacksonville Center currently has a training program on basic ...

Region 2 WORKFORCE Offers Work-Learning Program for Cabell County ...

Huntington Herald Dispatch - Huntington,WV,USA
HUNTINGTON -- The Region 2 WORKFORCE Investment Board recently announced that it has received funding for its Summer Youth Program. ...

Ground Broken For One-Stop Workforce Center

Gazette Virginian - South Boston,VA,USA
Daniel LeBlanc, senior advisor to the governor for Work Force Development, noted the cooperation between various agencies and government officials at every ...

Governor Rendell Touting Summer Jobs Program

WFMZ-TV Online
... and Reinvestment Act, Governor Ed Rendell says more than 9000 kids in Pennsylvania are being put to work through the Summer Youth Employment Program. ...

Learning life skills one post hole at a time

OregonLive.com
Administered by the Portland Bureau of Parks & Recreation, the Youth Conservation Corps is one of a number of summer youth jobs programs under way in the ...

Shreveport's stimulus-funded summer work program wraps

Shreveport Times
Creating jobs was part of President Obama's plan in proposing the stimulus package. And summer jobs were among the $6 million in budget cuts Shreveport ...

Summer sun and skills

Cape Cod Times
Stephens, 15, who tends the plants at the Cape Abilities Farm in Dennis, is one of 230 youths around the Cape taking part in the Summer Youth Employment ...

NY $1M to fund job training in region

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The state is providing $1 million to fund job training and education programs for low-income workers in the Albany, NY, area. The funding was announced ...

CareerLink Offers Job Training, Unemployment Benefits Safe

WGAL - Lancaster,PA,USA
Stimulus money is helping people get job training without losing their unemployment benefits. The recession has caused people to realize they need more or ...

Job relief funds coming to Manatee

Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
He expects workforce boards to act quickly on launching job training and job placement programs. “I think many of the boards have been gearing up to take ...

$1 million in funding for Albany green job training programs

WXXA - Albany,NY,USA
State officials are announcing $1 million in funding for Capital Region job training programs that prepare people for jobs in the new green economy. ...

Job program success earns state grant

Schenectady Gazette - Schenectady,NY,USA
Each trainee learns just the basic skills, with on-the-job training, and can't advance without learning further skills. But the basics are impressing ...

Education, job training stimulus funds on the way

The Republic.com (subscription) - Columbus,IN,USA
By Brian Blair About $60 million in stimulus money soon will be available to help Hoosiers upgrade their education and job training, according to Alison ...

One Stop Workforce Centers shapes lives

Cheraw Chronicle - Cheraw,SC,USA
According to www.peedeewib.org, the Pee Dee Workforce Investment Board (WIB) is a volunteer group of citizens from business, labor, education and community ...

26 Workforce Leaders Selected for Professional Development Program

CSRwire.com (press release) - USA
CSRwire.com — Washington, DC, July 23, 2009 - Twenty-six professionals from the workforce development field have been selected to participate in a year-long ...

Jobs available in Muskogee

Muskogee Daily Phoenix - Muskogee,OK,USA
Sharon Nichols, business services coordinator for Eastern Workforce Development Board, said there are jobs open in Muskogee. “There are plenty of jobs ...

Piedmont Triad Partnership to Collaborate with Regional JobLink ...

dBusinessNews Kansas City (press release) - Kansas City,MO,USA
... local outreach at eleven JobLink offices throughout the Piedmont Triad,” says Althea Hairston, Director, Northwest Piedmont Workforce Development Board. ...

Secretary Salazar Hosts DC Youth Working for Interior under ...

7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The young people are working under stimulus funds as part of the DC Summer Youth Employment Program or the Youth Conservation Corps. ...

Youth employed through stimulus funds

The Enterprise Ledger - Enterprise,AL,USA
... Summer Youth Employment Program, Erica Vaughan and Anika Osmers are among 81 area youth working in summer jobs obtained through federal stimulus money. ...

Stimulus to fund 9200 summer jobs in Pa.

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Pennsylvania's Summer Youth Employment Program will provide jobs for 9200 with federal stimulus funds this summer, beating a goal of 8600, Gov. ...

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Stimulus money aids job services

The Tribune-Democrat - Johnstown,PA,USA
More than $3.7 million in federal stimulus money is coming to the Southern Alleghenies Workforce Investment Board to enhance job development services in ...

Youth workforce program: Teens work at Norfork School during summer

Baxter Bulletin - Mountain Home,AR,USA
As part of the Arkansas Summer Youth Workforce program, Ethan Barnes, Megan Cain, Dalton Davis and Anthony King, all 17, Wade Staton and Chase Loosey, 16, ...

Job program at UNCP creates opportunities

Richmond County Daily Journal - Rockingham,NC,USA
PEMBROKE — In a tight job market, summer jobs for teens are scarce. An eight-week Summer Youth Employment Program at UNC Pembroke is helping to fill the gap ...

Teen Summer Job Opportunity

Fox12Idaho - Nampa-Boise,Idaho,USA
The department is using stimulus money to fund what they're calling the Summer Youth Employment Program. It helps kids and young adults between the ages of ...

Employment program puts young citizens to work

Daily Times Leader - West Point,MS,USA
The workers are putting in 40 hours per week as part of the Summer Youth Employment Program, made possible by the federal stimulus package. ...

Students learning about mix of careers in exploratory program

Cape Coral Daily Breeze - Cape Coral,FL,USA
The Lee County School District teamed up with the Southwest Florida Workforce Development Board to host the four-week exploratory program at the county's ...

Money available for job training in health care field

WWL - New Orleans,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS - Grant money is now available to train people who want careers in the health care industry. While US Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis was in ...

William Paterson University offering free job training

newjerseynewsroom.com - Montclair,NJ,USA
Free job training for people who are unemployed or those seeking job and career advancement is now available at William Paterson University through a ...

Summer program gives 205 first-time workers 6-week jobs

PennLive.com - Harrisburg,PA,USA
Arbor's students, who are between ages 16 and 24, work four days a week and receive job training on the fifth day for a total of 30 hours a week. ...

Sacramento district hires teenagers for tech work

San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
The Sacramento Employment and Training Agency sponsored the internships. Officials say the interns are gaining work experience and the district is getting ...

Special-ed students to get job training

Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
The program is an extension of a less-intense job training program that's been in place for about 15 years, she added. That program worked the same way, ...

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Stimulus funds flow into Valley

Fresno Bee
For example, the Fresno County Workforce Investment Board got $18 million in stimulus money, said Pam Lassetter, assistant director. ...

Stimulus Funds Expected to Provide Training for Dislocated Workers

PublicCEO.com - Sacramento,CA,USA
Dorothy Chen, director for Alameda County Workforce Investment Board, said that between July 2008 - June 2009, Alameda County lost 11000 jobs and that ...

Job Training: Often Misunderstood But Too Important to Dismiss

Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
At their best, workforce development programs offer incumbent workers and jobseekers a bridge to connect their current skills and experiences with stable ...

Stimulus money goes to workforce development

Altoona Mirror - Altoona,PA,USA
... enhance and expand its existing support of workforce development services throughout Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fulton, Huntingdon and Somerset counties. ...

'Kids take over the Kitchen' at Wor-Wic Community College

Bethany Beach Wave - Bethany Beach,DE,USA
But Alison didn't have far to go, just across town to Wor-Wic Community College and its first-class Workforce Development Center. ...

UNT program partners with area Workforce Solutions Boards to ...

North Texas e-News - TX,USA
UNT has now formed partnerships with area Workforce Solutions Boards to make the program free for many applicants. The UNT Career Success Programs are a ...

Summer work program a success for Northome youth

International Falls Daily Journal - International Falls,MN,USA
The office's Summer Youth employment program helps 14-24 year-olds secure summer jobs and realize what skills they have to offer in the workplace. ...

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Navajo Nation legislation seeks to create green jobs

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
It will be introduced during the 21st Navajo Nation Council during the summer session July 20-24. Organizers with the Coalition say it could be a model for ...

100 youth explore careers through chamber program

Martinsville Bulletin - Martinsville,VA,USA
Jevon Smith, 18, who graduated from Magna Vista High School this year, said he applied for the program to get a summer job and earn money to save toward a ...

Summer jobs program teaches skills

The Union of Grass Valley - Grass Valley,CA,USA
Kirkman is one of 54 men and women aged 16-24 who are working this summer in a youth employment program for those who are low-income, receiving some sort of ...

Hawthorne agency to run stimulus-funded jobs program

Daily Breeze
By Sandy Mazza Staff Writer The South Bay Workforce Investment Board was awarded a $160 million contract to administer a program to create 10000 subsidized ...

Monday, July 20, 2009

Stimulus pays for summer jobs for 2000 OC youth

OCRegister - Santa Ana,CA,USA
"We haven't run a summer program in 10 years," said Ruben Aceves, director of the city of Anaheim's Workforce Investment Board. The Anaheim board is one of ...

Elizabethport Presbyterian Center announces Go Green Youth ...

Suburban News - Cranford,NJ,USA
... the Elizabethport Presbyterian Center is now registering eligible youths, ages 12-24, living in Elizabeth for the Go Green Youth Employment Program. ...

Program offers more than employment

Lansing State Journal - Lansing,MI,USA
Through the Summer Youth Program, CAMW is able to do more than just find people jobs and help with their education. "We've bought them clothes for working, ...

Programs to keep young people busy make an impact

Online Athens - Athens,GA,USA
"We were given a mandate (by the US Department of Labor) to run a strong summer youth program" in the 12 counties the agency serves, she said. ...

No better time than now to train for a new career

Post-Bulletin - Rochester,MN,USA
One side benefit of a slower economy, however, is that of increased job training and work force development opportunities. The increase in the unemployment ...

Magazine making job connections

Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA
Officials at workone, the employment and training arm of Indiana Workforce Development, are marking the first anniversary of workone Career Connect, ...

Recovery money helps local teen gain skills

Superior Telegram - Superior,MN,USA
Elmore is a Summer Youth Employment participant working with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. (Submitted photo) Solon Springs is a ...

The Family Alliance Youth Summer Employment program finds work for 110

Lynchburg News and Advance - Lynchburg,VA,USA
For her summer job, Boon is taking photos of several hundred of these negatives. She got the job through The Family Alliance Youth Summer Employment program ...

So Bo Workforce Center Announced

Gazette Virginian - South Boston,VA,USA
A new $1.2 million “state-of-the-art” Workforce Development Center to be housed in the Houghton Industrial Park this week received $50000 in federal funding ...

Jobs program offers second chance for young people

Gaston Gazette - Gastonia,NC,USA
Director of Life Skills Becky McLain said the Gaston County Workforce Development Board wanted to distribute funds it received as part of the federal ...

Stimulus money used to help Chicago homeless

ABC7Chicago.com - IL, USA
The federal stimulus grant has helped La Casa Norte to secure jobs for youth. "We have $262000 to pay for and provide summer youth jobs for 130 low-income ...

New chamber chairman outlines his goals

Martinsville Bulletin - Martinsville,VA,USA
“We feel that a big step in helping the upcoming work force is being tackled by the Summer Youth Employment Program … and we plan to assist the Workforce ...

Stimulus Money Gives Boost to Youth Employment

KIONrightnow.com - Monterey,CA,USA
It's the summer youth employment program and they just received more stimulus money. The program goes on for eight weeks and provides work readiness skills ...

TDOT lands stimulus training grant

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
It was part of $6.7 million in job training grants awarded to 14 state programs, and the Tennessee award will double the normal amount of federal funds ...

Innovative job training for entire community

YourHub.com - Denver,CO,USA
Through an innovative partnership with Arapahoe/Douglas Works and Arapahoe Community College, DCSD is providing classes and certification training for ...

Assistance available for those hit hard by economy

Carthage Press - Carthage,MO,USA
The Workforce Investment Board of Southwest Missouri, in partnership with the Missouri Career Center, launched an awareness program promoting new and ...

Federal stimulus money to re-train Southwest Floridians for new ...

WINKNEWS.com - Fort Myers,FL,USA
The Southwest Florida Workforce Development Board has $8 Million to help re-train people who currently don't have a job. It has a list of more than 100 ...

Stimulus package provides work for area youth

Mille Lacs County Times - Milaca,MN,USA
By Dawn Slade Area youth are learning about the working world as they participate in the Central Minnesota Jobs & Training Youth Program. ...

Work program to find jobs for teens

The Daily Sound - Santa Barbara,CA,USA
He sees the work corps as an evolution of prior youth jobs programs that the Workforce Investment Board and other local groups have created in the past. ...

Young DC Workers Get Hands-On Summer Experience

Georgetown University News, Calendars & Events - Washington,DC,USA
Kathleen Barker expected to spend her summer answering phones and filing paperwork as part of Washington's Summer Youth Employment Program. ...

LB youth to be trained for eco-friendly jobs

Daily 49er - Long Beach,CA,USA
About 1200 people from ages 14 to 24 will be involved with this summer's youth programs and put back to work. These programs will take place in Long Beach, ...

Senate panel reviews job training options for underemployed

Medill Reports - Washington,DC,USA
Martha Kanter, undersecretary of Education, and Jane Oates, assistant secretary of Labor, told the subcommittee their agencies were trying to reduce the ...

Green Job Training To Retool In Five States

City Town Info Education Channel - Southborough,MA,USA
By CityTownInfo.com Staff Five states—Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, and Oregon—will be getting a federal jumpstart for green job training. ...

More money, job training could be in future for community colleges

WLOX - Biloxi,MS,USA
Even more job training programs could soon be offered under President Barack Obama's American Graduation Initiative. The plan would invest $12 billion in ...

Thursday, July 16, 2009

WH gets funds for summer school

Whitman & Hanson Express - Hanson,MA,USA
The stimulus funds came into the district from a partnership with the Brockton Area Workforce Investment Board. When President Clinton was in office he ...

Source: County of Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara Edhat - Santa Barbara,CA,USA
County Supervisors and Workforce Investment Board announce Youth Corps as the new program for the out-of-school youth. Santa Barbara County Supervisors ...

Agencies' Rapid Response softens economic woes

Joplin Independent - Joplin,MO,USA
These were reasons Jasen Jones executive director of the Workforce Investment Board, pictured at left, gave for Joplin's unemployment numbers remaining ...

Stimulus cash putting teens to work

Taunton Daily Gazette - MA, USA
... been allocated to the centers via the Workforce Investment Act, said James Calkins, executive director of the Bristol Workforce Investment Board (WIB). ...

A&P students graduate first phase with big dreams

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
He's excited that the program's tuition-and-materials tab - more than $6000 - is being picked up by the San Bernardino County Workforce Investment Board, ...

Youth Corps program in Santa Barbara County to help at-risk youth

KSBY - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
Wednesday, the Santa Barbara County supervisors and Workforce Investment Board announced a $1.1 million dollar contract for a new Youth Corps program. ...

Culver Announces Job Training Partnership With Microsoft

KCRG - Cedar Rapids,IA,USA
By Daren Sukhram DES MOINES – Governor Chet Culver Wednesday joined Microsoft Director of Government Affairs Tony Wilson and Iowa Workforce Development ...

Local workforce area receives $8.1M in help

Auburn Reporter - Auburn,WA,USA
The state's Employment Security Department has awarded $8.1 million to the Workforce Development Council of Seattle/King County to help workers upgrade ...

Local Youth Take Part In Employment Program

Teague Chronicle - Teague,TX,USA
A part of the stimulus money was designated for a Summer Youth Employment Program. This is a youth experience program with on the job training that begins ...

Program Teaches Life Skills

Wetzel Chronicle - New Martinsville,WV,USA
They are gaining job skills with pay, and as one youth pointed out, "I appreciate I have a job this summer since they are hard to find." The Summer Youth ...

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

OC uses stimulus money

Odessa American - Odessa,TX,USA
It's all covered by Permian Basin Workforce Solutions, who gave OC grants from federal stimulus funds to develop three separate courses for students to take ...

Federal stimulus money brings jobs to 5000 Kentucky teens and ...

WHAS 11.com (subscription) - Louisville,KY,USA
(WHAS11) - More than 5000 Kentucky teens and young adults are getting summer work, all thanks to stimulus money. Kentucky's summer youth employment program ...

Stimulus dollars put teens, young adults to work for summer

MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA
The program helps low-income youth find jobs. Participants will earn from $8 to $10 an hour. Teenagers with jobs will help stimulate the economy quicker ...

Teens spend summer on the job

Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA
Hope House President of the Board of Directors, Sandy McLean of Holland Patent flips sausage patties while Oneida County Summer Youth Employment Program ...

Over 1,000 jobs offered in Palm Beach County through Workforce Alliance

While many teens are having a hard time finding a summer job, there are hundreds of young adults in Palm Beach County that will be working and earning money.

Young Adults Score Summer Jobs

A quick glance around Meldon Hall at Palm Beach Community College and it appears a game show taping is in the works. But after the cheering and "lifelines," it becomes clear these contestants are actually winners.

The group of 200 scored summer jobs through Workforce Alliance of Palm Beach County.

Obama plans $12B boost to community colleges

USA Today - USA
A report released Monday by the president's Council of Economic Advisers identified a number of areas related to job training that could be strengthened, ...

Wal-Mart Foundation Helps Fund Green Job Training for Women

Reuters - USA
... the Wal-Mart Foundation is partnering with the Business and Professional Women's Foundation to provide green job training for women. ...

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Finding work tough for IE teens

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Stimulus Program Gives Students Jobs

Danville, VA - Two-hundred-and-fifty young people are hitting the workforce on the Southside, thanks to some help from the federal stimulus bill.

Money from stimulus program gives some a shot at first job

About 400 young workers reported for duty last week at government offices and businesses throughout Palm Beach County to begin six weeks of on-the-job training paid for with federal stimulus money.

Job Program Helps Young Jobseekers Who Can't Get Hired

WBAY - Green Bay,WI,USA
By Kristin Byrne Thanks to stimulus money, the Bay Area Workforce Development Board is bringing back an employment program to Northeast Wisconsin which was ...

Stimulating work: Stimulus funds help disadvantaged area youths ...

LubbockOnline.com - Lubbock,TX,USA
By Walt Nett | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL A federally funded youth employment program in the South Plains this summer ran out of people before it ran out of jobs to ...

10000 summer jobs 'open doors' for kids

Philadelphia Metro - Philadelphia,PA,USA
This month, many of those jobs kicked off for Hub youngsters. Boston's summer jobs program has traditionally been a combined effort by the Boston Youth Fund ...

Stimulus-Funded Youth Jobs Program at Halfway Point

93.1 WIBC Indianapolis - Indianapolis,IN,USA
She says some workers have already interviewed for fulltime jobs. IPIC has kept $400000 in federal money in reserve to run a smaller program next summer.

Tracking the Recession: Stimulus helps revive summer youth jobs ...

Stateline.org - Washington,DC,USA
But thanks to a $1.2 billion federal stimulus fund, states are revitalizing summer youth programs that have languished over the past decade because of ...

White House Sees 'Robust' Job Growth, Calls for More Training

Bloomberg - USA
In a cautionary note, the CEA said, the US education and job-training system has “important limitations” that must be improved if workers are to take ...

Monday, July 13, 2009

Stimulus money creates summer jobs for over 1000 Contra Costa youths

Martinez News-Gazette - Martinez,CA,USA
Several Martinez businesses are currently taking advantage of the Workforce Development Board of Contra Costa County's (WDBCCC) summer youth employment ...

Stimulus funds now top $15 million for Marion area

Marion Star - Marion,OH,USA
A summer youth work experience program, which enrolled 71 young people ages 16 through 24, would not exist this summer without $228000 in federal stimulus ...

Natural gas industry may spur job growth in the state of Pennsylvania

Farm and Dairy - Salem,Ohio,USA
... Labor and Industry provided through the Central Pennsylvania Workforce Development Corp. and the Northern Tier Regional Planning and Development Commission.

Federal stimulus money pays for summer jobs in Howard

Baltimore Sun - United States
Howard got $54636 in federal funds for the program, which enabled Francine Trout, director of the Howard County Office of Workforce Development in Columbia, ...

Work program will get federal funds to help job-seekers

Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
The Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network will receive a $130000 On-the-Job Training Supportive Services grant, funds that were included in the ...