Provides employment services and reemployment services in accordance with the Wagner Peyser Act. Funding to support one-stop career centers. Job seekers benefit from job search and placement services, assessment of skill levels, job search workshops and referral to employers. Employers benefit through assistance with special recruitment needs, analysis of hard-to-fill jobs and assistance with job restructuring. Amount of Award: $5,146,036.00 State Administering Agency: Office of Employment and TrainingFederally Awarding Agency: Department of LaborFinancial assistance to provide, expand and improve independent living services to the older blind population. Amount of Award: $508,466.00 State Administering Agency: Office for the BlindFederally Awarding Agency: Department of EducationProvides workforce investment activities that increase the employment, retention, and earnings of low income adult participants, and increase occupational skill attainment by the participants. This program is designed to increase employment, as measured by entry into unsubsidized employment, retention in unsubsidized employment after entry into employment. Services are available to workers and employers through Kentucky’s network of One-Stop Career Centers. Amount of Award: $8,192,097.00 State Administering Agency: Office of Employment and TrainingFederally Awarding Agency: Department of LaborHelp low income youth, between the ages of 14 and 21, acquire the educational and occupational skills, training, and support needed to achieve academic and employment success and successfully transition to careers and productive adulthood. Year-round employment and training services including the summer youth program. Services are provided by a network of 10 local workforce areas serving all 120 counties. Amount of Award: $17,709,821.00 State Administering Agency: Office of Employment and TrainingFederally Awarding Agency: Department of Labor |
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