United Way to assume oversight of Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network

Business Courier
The network recently was awarded a two-year, $600000 Social Innovation Fund grant through the National Fund for Workforce Solutions and its national ...

NC technology firm wins $25000 grant

The Virginian-Pilot
The grant comes from North Carolina's Northeastern Workforce Development Board. The goal, the agency said, is to provide training to increase workers' ...

No Federal Funds in Sight for Summer Jobs

Youth Today
The regional Workforce Investment Board in Connecticut, Capital Workforce Partners, is advocating at the state level for the $5 million in summer jobs ...

Norman a success story for Workforce Investment Act

Published Thursday, January 13, 2011 4:54 PM
Summerville Journal Scene ®

Dwayne Norman entered the Workforce Investment Act program at the Trident One Stop Career System in January 2009, after being dislocated from Leggett and Platt, Inc. As a young man, Norman enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1976 where he sustained injuries to both shoulders, limiting his ability to perform tasks that require heavy lifting or holding his arms over his head for long periods of time.

American Recovery & Reinvestment Act Enables Tulsa to Keep, Add Jobs

Greater Tulsa Reporter Newspapers
Of that amount, $1.9 million has been spent on a highly successful summer youth internship program, as well as providing help for adults to find employment, ...

WorkNow Summer Employment Program Creates Jobs In Kentucky | Gov ...

By admin
Across the Commonwealth, 1442 Kentuckians landed a permanent job as the result of a federally subsidized summer employment program in 2010. WorkNow Kentucky provided 9314 low-income youth and adults with children ...

Finding Her Path Through KC’s WIA Youth Program

Malta, Illinois -- Asheli Mann may be in her early twenties, but her life has been one marked with interesting experiences—many of which have not been positive. Still, she moves forward and has found a path with a little help from the Workforce Investment Act Youth Program at Kishwaukee College.

Agency boosts soft job skills like being on time and hard skills

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
By Joyce Gannon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Business-Gannon Stefani Pashman, chief executive officer, Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board at their offices ...

Technology changes job outlooks

Coshocton Tribune
Since the 1970s, career-tech education has been training high school students and adults in primarily service-related occupations including health care, ...

Program helps disabled high school students in gaining work experience

Enid News & Eagle
The high school senior's work at Bass is part of a program called Project Search, an on-the-job training program designed for students with disabilities. ...