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 ...