Offender Employment : Department of Labor

ARCHS' Community Action Re-Entry Employment System (CARES) Community Partnership

Scott — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:45:00 GMT

The ARCHS' Community Action Re-Entry Employment System (CARES) Community Partnership focuses on job training and lifeskills services for ex-offenders returning to the St. Louis region. Partners of this program include U.S Dept. of Labor, St. Louis Community College, and the Eastern District of Missouri U.S. Probation office. For more information about the ARCH's CARES program, go here and then read the article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Offender Workforce Development Announcements: Conferences, Grants

Scott — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:43:00 GMT

NCDA Global Conference: July 9-11, 2008
The National Career Development Association is excited to announce the 2008 NCDA Global Conference. The conference will be held at the wonderful Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington D.C., July 9-11, 2008. You won't want to miss this great opportunity to attend this conference! NCDA is expecting 1,000+ attendees at the premiere conference for career development professionals across all areas of career development and in all settings. For more information, click here.

White House To Host Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Conferences

The White House is hosting a series of 2008 conferences designed to connect effective social service organizations with resources that can strengthen and expand the services they offer. The conferences will provide an understanding of the President's Faith-Based and Community Initiative and information about the Federal grants process, funding opportunities, and the responsibilities that come with Federal funding.

The conferences are scheduled as follows:

May 29-30, in New Orleans, LA
June 26-27, in Washington, DC
August 5, in Sacramento, CA
August 29, in Dallas, TX.

Go to http://www.dtiassociates.com/fbci/index.cfm for more informatino.

U.S. Department of Labor awards nearly $3 million to advance President's Prisoner Re-entry Initiative

The U.S. Department of Labor has announced grants totaling almost $3 million to advance the President's Prisoner Re-entry Initiative. Through a partnership operated with the U.S. Department of Justice, grants of $130,434 each will go to 23 criminal justice agencies across the country. They, in turn, will fund faith-based and community organizations to deliver employment services to prisoners returning to civilian life. For more information, click here.

The Performance Benchmarking Project

The Performance Benchmarking Project is seeking prisoner reentry/employment organizations to participate in the next round of data collection. P/PV is developing a tool that allows similar organizations to anonymously compare their job placement and retention outcomes. A long-term goal of the project is to identify meaningful outcome benchmarks for the workforce development field, so that practitioners, funders and policymakers can be better informed about what constitutes "good" performance when working with diverse populations and service delivery strategies.

To be eligible, organizations must directly provide workforce development services to individuals 18 or older and be able to submit aggregate data on job placement and retention results, services and participant characteristics for a recent one-year cohort of enrollees. For a summary of the requested data, please click here.

Presidents 2008 Community Based Job Training Grant Awardees

Click here for the list of awardees.

Information about the upcoming Defendant/Offender Workforce Development (DOWD) Conference

Scott — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:55:00 GMT

The 2008 Defendant/Offender Workforce Development (DOWD) Conference will take place April 13 - 16 in Cleveland, OH. The National Career Development Association (NCDA) will partner with the US Probation Office - Northern District of Ohio, the National Institute of Corrections, Federal Bureau of Prisons, US Probation Office of Eastern District of Missouri, Offices of Probation and Pre-Trial Services; and the Administrative Office of the US Courts, to host the conference.

Click here for the 2008 DOWD Conference program.

Please visit NCDA's DOWD Conference Webpage for hotel and registration information.

CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE

Sunday, April 13, 2008:
3:00 - 6:00 pm Registration Open & Exhibitor Set Up
4:00 - 6:00 pm OWDS Master Trainers/Instructors Meeting
5:00 - 6:00 pm First timers Session
7:00 - 8:30 pm OWDS Reunion Reception

Monday, April 14, 2008:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration Open & Exhibits Open
9:00 - 11:30 am NIC Sponsored Pre-Conference Workshops (no cost)
12:00 - 2:00 pm Opening Luncheon/Keynote
2:30 - 4:00 pm Presentations Series A
4:20 - 5:50 pm Presentations Series B
6:30 - 8:00 pm Opening Reception

Tuesday, April 15, 2008:
7:30 - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
7:30 - 5:00 pm Registration Open & Exhibits Open
8:30 - 10:00 am Second Plenary/Keynote
10:30 - 12:00 pm Presentations Series C
12:30 - 2:00 pm Awards Luncheon
2:30 - 4:00 pm Presentations Series D
2:30 - 4:00 pm Tours of Federal Facility
4:00 - 6:00 pm Exhibits Tear Down
6:00 pm Group Night Out (additional cost required)

Wednesday, April 16, 2008:
8:00 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am - 2:00 pm Registration Open
9:00 - 10:30 am Closing Plenary/Keynote
10:30 am - 12:30 pm Regional Roundtables
1:00 - 5:00 pm Inmate Skills Development System Training for BOP Coordinators

U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao announces third competition for the President’s community-based job training grants

Scott — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:43:00 GMT

WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao today announced the launch of a third competition for President Bush's Community-Based Job Training Grants. Public and tribal community and technical colleges, community college districts, state community college systems and One-Stop Career Centers will compete for awards totaling approximately $125 million.

Read the full announcement here.

Department of Labor grant opportunities

Scott — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:24:00 GMT

New Department of Labor Grant to Aid Ex-Prisoners Preparing Ex-Offenders for the Workplace Through Beneficiary-Choice

Contracting; Solicitation for Grant Applications

Background: The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training

Administration is pleased to announce a competition for grants totaling approximately $5 million for faith-based and community organizations and government agencies to address the specific workforce challenges of ex-offenders and produce positive outcomes with a particular focus on employment and reduced recidivism.

Description: Grant funds awarded under this competition will be used to implement a program of services for ex-offenders (ages 18 to 29) under a beneficiary-choice contracting model. The beneficiary choice contracting model involves providing program participants with an independent choice among multiple service providers for specific services. Participants will receive case management services from the grantee, but will choose among contracted specialized service providers for more in-depth services.

ETA intends to fund grants for five projects, to serve 225 individuals (age 18 to 29) through the adult criminal justice system, per year, at an average annual grant amount of $1,000,000 per site. Applicants may submit proposals within the range of $800,000 to $1,200,000.

Eligibility: Applicants must be either a faith-based or community organization that is exempt from taxation pursuant to 26 U.S.C.

501(c)(3) at the time of application submission, or a government agency

(such as a Workforce Investment Board, One-Stop Career Center, corrections agency, State or local government, housing authority). The applicant will be the lead organization that will represent a partnership system that consists of the public workforce system, the local corrections agency and other social services providers (including faith-based and community organizations). At least one of the contracted specialized service providers offered to participants must offer a program that contains no religious content.

Informational Webinar: There will be an informational webinar held for

this grant competition. Information on the date/time of this webinar and

a recording for applicants who cannot attend will be available on

http://www.dol.gov/cfbci.

Deadline: Applications for this solicitation must be submitted by May 25, 2007.

For the grant application please visit www.grants.gov or http://www.doleta.gov/sga/sga.cfm.

"Grassroots Grant" Announced:

Workforce Investment Act-Small Grassroots Organizations Connecting with the One-Stop Delivery System Solicitation for Grant Applications

Background: The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training

Administration is pleased to announce two competitions for grants totaling $3.6 million for faith-based and community organizations to help members of hard-to-serve populations prepare for and succeed in employment.

Description: The Grassroots Grant should provide services that focus on people who face major hurdles to employment, including welfare recipients, homeless individuals and ex-offenders. Grantees will provide personalized care and supportive services, such as mentoring or life skills coaching, to enable individuals to fully use the services of local One-Stop Career Centers. The Employment and Training Administration expects to award 50 new Grassroots grants at $60,000 each for a total of $3 million.

Eligibility: a) Applicants may be public, private for-profit, and private non-profit organizations including faith-based and community organizations. b) The application must clearly identify the applicant and describe its capacity to administer the services highlighted under this grant. c) Applications for supplementation of distinct on-going projects, regardless of funding source, are eligible for consideration under this Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA); however, applications for renewal of existing projects will not be considered.

Please note that the applicant and fiscal agent must be the same organization.

Deadline: Applications for the Grassroots Grant must be submitted by May 8, 2007.

For the grant application please visit www.grants.gov or

http://www.doleta.gov/sga/sga/DOL-SGA-DFA-PY-06-11.pdf.