>>> DISABILITIES
U.S. Department of Labor Announces About $20M to Fund State-Run Programs
Aimed At Improving Employment Outcomes For People With Disabilities
T
he U.S. Department of Labor today an- nounced the availability of approximate- ly $20 million to fund programs that will improve education, training and employ- ment opportunities for adults and youth with disabilities. A solicitation for grant ap- plications is published in today’s edition of the Federal Register. The Disability Employment Initiative is a joint project of the Labor Department’s Employment and Training Administration and its Office of Disability Employment Policy. Programs to be funded will serve individuals who are unemployed, under- employed and/or receiving Social Security disability benefits. The goals of the project are to improve coordination and collabora- tion across multiple service delivery sys- tems, build effective partnerships that le- verage public and private resources to better serve people with disabilities and,
ultimately, improve employment outcomes of people with disabilities. “Workers with disabilities suffer from one of the lowest employment rates of any group in the American population, even in times of prosperity,” said Secretary of La- bor Hilda L. Solis. “It is vital that state and local agencies work together with private sector partners to improve these statistics. Through this second round of funding, we are expanding the Disability Employment Initiative to include programs in additional states.”
Grantees under the Disability Employ- ment Initiative are state workforce agen- cies. Nine — in Alaska, Arkansas, Dela- ware, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, New Jersey, New York and Virginia — received grants through a first round of funding awarded in September 2010 for a period of three years. This solicitation for applications represents
a second round of funding; agencies in the remaining 41 states are eligible to apply. Recipient state workforce agencies will collaborate
with workforce investment
boards and local agencies. Awards will range from $1.5 to $6 million each to be spent over a three-year period. Cooperative agreements will be used to expand service delivery through the public workforce sys- tem to job seekers with disabilities. The programs will build upon the Labor De- partment’s Disability Program Navigator initiative and other model service delivery strategies. Training and employment services sup- ported by these grants are intended to help reduce the unacceptably low employment rates experienced by people with disabili- ties. The complete solicitation for applica- tions is available at
http://www.doleta.gov/ grants.
The Black EOE Journal
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