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Workforce Development Solicitations for Proposals
Workforce Investment Act Funds
Advancing Workers With Barriers to Employment– Award List and Project Summaries
On December 22, 2005, grants were awarded to six organizations under the Advancing Workers
With Barriers to Employment category. Project descriptions, award amounts, and contact
information are listed below.
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Awardees |
Award Amount |
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Able-Disabled Advocacy, Inc. |
$399,996 |
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Humboldt County |
$500,000 |
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Opportunities Industrialization Center West, Inc. |
$500,000 |
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Para Los Niños |
$500,000 |
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Rubicon Programs Inc. |
$500,000 |
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Spanish Speaking Unity Council |
$500,000 |
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TOTAL |
$2,899,996 |
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Able-Disabled Advocacy, Inc
2850 Sixth Avenue, Suite 311
San Diego, CA 92103 |
Elaine Cooluris
(619) 231-5990 |
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Award Amount: $399,996 |
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Summary: Able-Disabled Advocacy, operating in San Diego County since 1976, will offer all Mandated WIA Youth Elements and more, to 80 out-of-school youth with a wide variety of disabilities and other barriers to employment. The majority will represent minority and drop-out youth. Seventy-two (90 percent) will achieve positive outcomes; 64 (80 percent) will be placed; and 8 (10 percent) will achieve employability enhancements. Those in TEAMworks will have the opportunity for customized training, basic skills upgrading, work-based learning, career advancement, mentoring, and long-term support. All services and training are designed and delivered to meet individual needs and include assistive technology, ASL bilingual assistance, accommodations, and self-paced courses. Occupations include Microsoft Certified Engineer, Customer Service, Accounting, Human Resources, Business Management, E-Business, Certified Nursing Assistant, Certified Home Health Aide, Caregiver, Medical Assistant, Pharmacy Technician, Airline Reservation Agent, Catering, etc. |
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Humboldt County
520 E Street
Eureka, CA 95501 |
Jacqueline Debets
(707) 445-7747 |
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Award Amount: $500,000 |
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Summary: The Newcomers Employment and Advancement Project (NEAP) will prepare limited English-speaking job seekers and workers for employment, advancement, and integration into the North Coast economy and community. Working directly with local industry leaders and employers, the Humboldt County WIB has identified a large demand for both work-readiness and workplace literacy skills in our changing labor market. The NEAP will build upon a successful pilot Newcomers Center, integrating work-readiness training into all ESL classes, expanding the Newcomers Centers into the one-stop system, and delivering increased workplace literacy skills training on-site with employers, increasing the competitive skills of 258 workers. Demand occupations include Healthcare, Child Care, Horticulture, Seafood Processing, Dairy, Niche Manufacturing, Forest Products. |
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Opportunities Industrialization Center West, Incorporated
1200 O’Brien Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025 |
Amanda Byrd
(650) 330-6413 |
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Award Amount: $500,000 |
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Summary: Opportunities Industrialization Center West, Inc. will help 100 people break barriers that prevent them from becoming successful and self-supporting. Participants will transform lives by developing positive goals, attitudes, skills, earning power, and lifestyles. Our multifaceted design builds small triumphs into big victories. Although focus is primarily on people with low academic skills, limited English, and criminal records, individualized plans will address each client's complex barriers. Project combines counseling, motivational training, English language/academic development, life skills, job success preparation, and hands-on vocational training in healthcare, construction, culinary arts, and office administration. Its purpose is to prepare participants for successful careers and lives. |
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Para Los Niños
500 Lucas Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90021 |
Hector Ramirez
(213) 250-4800 |
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Award Amount: $500,000 |
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Summary: Para Los Niños (PLN) and its partners will provide seamless, integrated, and comprehensive workforce and post-secondary education preparation and training for 90 out-of-school at-risk youth with barriers to employment. Services will include including paid and unpaid work experience, basic skills training, job skills training, and certification for demand occupations, computer literacy, mentoring, career counseling, job placement, case management, and other activities. The PLN's WIA 15 percent program will be an expansion of its existing WIA youth service programs, and will include partnership with community-based organizations, government offices, and the LWIA. Demand occupations include technology, tourism, business services, manufacturing/trade, and motion picture/TV production. |
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Rubicon Programs Incorporated
2500 Bissell Avenue
Richmond, CA 94804 |
Jane Fischberg
(510) 287-3987 |
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Award Amount: $500,000 |
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Summary: Rubicon’s N’STEP will help people with multiple barriers to employment, such as homelessness, chemical dependency, basic skill deficiencies, limited work history, and criminal justice background, to attain self sufficiency. Rubicon has targeted two high-growth sectors – life science and allied health - offering entry-level jobs leading to career growth. By working in collaboration with community colleges offering short-term, industry-specific educational components, and with local employers, offering work experience, this initiative addresses basic skills deficiencies and industry-specific barriers. Customized work experience, case management, supportive housing, and behavioral health care address the special needs of the individuals to be served. Occupations include medical assistant training, hospital scheduler, admitting clerk, medical interpreter, bakery production, commercial property management, manufacturing associate, clerical support, and laboratory maintenance support. |
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Spanish Speaking Unity Council
3411 East 12th Street, Suite 200
Oakland, CA 94601 |
Marsha Murrington
(510) 535-6913 |
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Award Amount: $500,000 |
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Summary: The project will address workforce challenges faced by healthcare and construction employers, and create employment opportunities for low-income limited English-proficient residents of the Fruitvale/Lower San Antonio neighborhood of Oakland. The project will place at least 53 individuals in employment in construction or allied health care professions. It will also develop and implement a model intensive work-readiness English as a second language (ESL) curriculum and Vocational English as a second language (VESL) instruction in construction and medical/dental assisting. The ESL and VESL will be taught through the community colleges and integrated into their ongoing classes. Trainees will receive comprehensive case management, intensive ESL, VESL instruction, tutoring, worksite experience, internships, and on-the-job training. |
For assistance, call (916) 654-7799. TTY users, please call the California Relay Service at 711.
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