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Workforce development through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Provides job training and job-seeking assistance to economically disadvantaged persons, dislocated workers, and youth.

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Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
WIOA Programs
General Youth Employment Programs
Job Information
Job Search/Placement
Occupation Specific Job Training
Provides FIP recipients with work experience that will enhance their work skills and increase their employment potential, while providing a service that will be of benefit to the community. Participants in Promise Jobs are assigned to work sites three days per week (or more), eight hours per day, for a maximum of six months. They will, to the maximum extent possible, learn and perform all assignments associated with a position. Participants do not receive wages for work performed, but instead receive a transportation allowance, child care assistance if necessary, and Workers' Compensation Coverage from Promise Jobs.

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Welfare to Work Programs
Job Search/Placement
Occupation Specific Job Training
Employment services including job matching and referral, job search and job placement assistance, career guidance and assessment, testing clerical skills, employer services, labor market and apprenticeship information, bonding, veterans services, resume design, interviewing skills, and job searching techniques. Career Resource Center and Internet use available.

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) helps job seekers access employment, education, training, and support services to succeed in the labor market and to match employers with the skilled workers they need.

Registered Apprenticeship System provides information for individuals interested in apprenticeship opportunities and for employers searching for proven strategies to develop talent and build a skilled workforce. Provides information on funding opportunities, program information, services for veterans, and links to federal resources and union websites participating in the Registered Apprenticeship System. Applicants must be at least 16 years old and complete one to six years of paid, supervised, work based training and technical instruction to become certified in the profession of their choice.

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Job Search/Placement
Career Counseling
On the Job Training
Prejob Guidance
Veteran Employment Programs
WIOA Programs
Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Training Resource Lists
Apprenticeship Training
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Educational Testing
Employment services including job matching and referral, job search and job placement assistance, career guidance and assessment, testing clerical skills, employer services, labor market and apprenticeship information, bonding, veterans services, resume design, interviewing skills, and job searching techniques. Career Resource Center and Internet use available.

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) helps job seekers access employment, education, training, and support services to succeed in the labor market and to match employers with the skilled workers they need.

Registered Apprenticeship System provides information for individuals interested in apprenticeship opportunities and for employers searching for proven strategies to develop talent and build a skilled workforce. Provides information on funding opportunities, program information, services for veterans, and links to federal resources and union websites participating in the Registered Apprenticeship System. Applicants must be at least 16 years old and complete one to six years of paid, supervised, work based training and technical instruction to become certified in the profession of their choice.

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Job Search/Placement
Career Counseling
On the Job Training
Prejob Guidance
Veteran Employment Programs
WIOA Programs
Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Training Resource Lists
Apprenticeship Training
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Educational Testing
Improves the quality of life of individuals by providing training, education and employment programs.

SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT services are designed to provide personalized assistance to individuals with disabilities. Encouragement in independence by helping job-seekers get the skills necessary to find and maintain employment in the community. Program is focused on finding and utilizing individual strengths. Through job coaching and hands-on training, participants learn to understand their abilities and determine which jobs will allow those abilities to shine and go for their full potential.

BENEFITS PLANNING enables beneficiaries with disabilities to make informed choices about going to work also supporting them as they continue progress toward self-sufficiency. Team members will work with beneficiaries to provide in-depth counseling about benefits and the effect of work on those benefits. Education about benefits is provides in order to help beneficiaries attain independence and confidence. Team members counsel beneficiaries on Work Incentive Summary, Benefits Summary and Analysis, PASS plan, Impairment Related Work Expenses (IRWE) and resolve benefits issues.

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Prevocational Training
Vocational Education
Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational Assessment
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Occupation Specific Job Training
Promise Jobs provides FIP recipients with experience that will enhance their work skills and increase their employment potential, while providing a service that will benefit the community. They will, to the maximum extent possible, learn and perform all assignments associated with a position. Participants do not receive wages for work performed, but instead receive a transportation allowance, child care assistance if necessary, and Workers' Compensation Coverage from Promise Jobs.

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Job Search/Placement
Occupation Specific Job Training
Welfare to Work Programs
Facilitates access to employment and services for Iowa job seekers with disabilities. Navigators enhance service offered by agencies supporting the local disability workforce, by supporting job seekers with information and connection with service programs providing career enhancement.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Retraining
Facilitates access to employment and services for Iowa job seekers with disabilities. Navigators enhance service offered by agencies supporting the local disability workforce, by supporting job seekers with information and connection with service programs providing career enhancement.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Retraining
Employment services including job matching and referral, job search and job placement assistance, career guidance and assessment, testing clerical skills, employer services, labor market and apprenticeship information, bonding, veterans services, resume design, interviewing skills, and job searching techniques. Career Resource Center and Internet use available.

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) helps job seekers access employment, education, training, and support services to succeed in the labor market and to match employers with the skilled workers they need.

Registered Apprenticeship System provides information for individuals interested in apprenticeship opportunities and for employers searching for proven strategies to develop talent and build a skilled workforce. Provides information on funding opportunities, program information, services for veterans, and links to federal resources and union websites participating in the Registered Apprenticeship System. Applicants must be at least 16 years old and complete one to six years of paid, supervised, work based training and technical instruction to become certified in the profession of their choice.

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Job Search/Placement
Career Counseling
On the Job Training
Prejob Guidance
Veteran Employment Programs
WIOA Programs
Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Training Resource Lists
Apprenticeship Training
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Educational Testing
Assists qualified individuals pursuing a career in occupations in the health-care industry such as Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA), Direct Care Professional, Pharmacy Technician, Phlebotomist, EMT/Paramedic, LPN, Medical Assistant, Surgical Technician, RN and Medical Laboratory Technician. Most of the individuals served by the grant will have barriers to education and employment.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Continuing Education
Provides FIP recipients with work experience that will enhance their work skills and increase their employment potential, while providing a service that will be of benefit to the community. Participants in Promise Jobs are assigned to work sites three days per week (or more), eight hours per day, for a maximum of six months. They will, to the maximum extent possible, learn and perform all assignments associated with a position. Participants do not receive wages for work performed, but instead receive a transportation allowance, child care assistance if necessary, and Workers' Compensation Coverage from Promise Jobs.

Categories

Welfare to Work Programs
Job Search/Placement
Occupation Specific Job Training
Employment services including job matching and referral, job search and job placement assistance, career guidance and assessment, testing clerical skills, employer services, labor market and apprenticeship information, bonding, veterans services, resume design, interviewing skills, and job searching techniques. Career Resource Center and Internet use available.

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) helps job seekers access employment, education, training, and support services to succeed in the labor market and to match employers with the skilled workers they need.

Registered Apprenticeship System provides information for individuals interested in apprenticeship opportunities and for employers searching for proven strategies to develop talent and build a skilled workforce. Provides information on funding opportunities, program information, services for veterans, and links to federal resources and union websites participating in the Registered Apprenticeship System. Applicants must be at least 16 years old and complete one to six years of paid, supervised, work based training and technical instruction to become certified in the profession of their choice.

Categories

Job Search/Placement
Career Counseling
On the Job Training
Prejob Guidance
Veteran Employment Programs
WIOA Programs
Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Training Resource Lists
Apprenticeship Training
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Educational Testing
Provides FIP recipients with work experience that will enhance their work skills and increase their employment potential, while providing a service that will be of benefit to the community. Participants in Promise Jobs are assigned to work sites three days per week (or more), eight hours per day, for a maximum of six months. They will, to the maximum extent possible, learn and perform all assignments associated with a position. Participants do not receive wages for work performed, but instead receive a transportation allowance, child care assistance if necessary, and Workers' Compensation Coverage from Promise Jobs.

Categories

Welfare to Work Programs
Job Search/Placement
Occupation Specific Job Training
Employment services including job matching and referral, job search and job placement assistance, career guidance and assessment, testing clerical skills, employer services, labor market and apprenticeship information, bonding, veterans services, resume design, interviewing skills, and job searching techniques. Career Resource Center and Internet use available.

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) helps job seekers access employment, education, training, and support services to succeed in the labor market and to match employers with the skilled workers they need.

Registered Apprenticeship System provides information for individuals interested in apprenticeship opportunities and for employers searching for proven strategies to develop talent and build a skilled workforce. Provides information on funding opportunities, program information, services for veterans, and links to federal resources and union websites participating in the Registered Apprenticeship System. Applicants must be at least 16 years old and complete one to six years of paid, supervised, work based training and technical instruction to become certified in the profession of their choice.

Categories

Job Search/Placement
Career Counseling
On the Job Training
Prejob Guidance
Veteran Employment Programs
WIOA Programs
Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Training Resource Lists
Apprenticeship Training
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Educational Testing
Facilitates access to employment and services for Iowa job seekers with disabilities. Navigators enhance service offered by agencies supporting the local disability workforce, by supporting job seekers with information and connection with service programs providing career enhancement.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Retraining
Provides students with disabilities the extra training and support needed to become independent and successful in community jobs.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Career Counseling
Promise Jobs provides FIP recipients with experience that will enhance their work skills and increase their employment potential, while providing a service that will benefit the community. They will, to the maximum extent possible, learn and perform all assignments associated with a position. Participants do not receive wages for work performed, but instead receive a transportation allowance, child care assistance if necessary, and Workers' Compensation Coverage from Promise Jobs.

Categories

Job Search/Placement
Occupation Specific Job Training
Welfare to Work Programs
Facilitates access to employment and services for Iowa job seekers with disabilities. Navigators enhance service offered by agencies supporting the local disability workforce, by supporting job seekers with information and connection with service programs providing career enhancement.
Provides FIP recipients with work experience that will enhance their work skills and increase their employment potential, while providing a service that will be of benefit to the community. Participants in Promise Jobs are assigned to work sites three days per week (or more), eight hours per day, for a maximum of six months. They will, to the maximum extent possible, learn and perform all assignments associated with a position. Participants do not receive wages for work performed, but instead receive a transportation allowance, child care assistance if necessary, and Workers' Compensation Coverage from Promise Jobs.

Categories

Welfare to Work Programs
Job Search/Placement
Occupation Specific Job Training
Provides eligible, unemployed, and underemployed people with job and life skills training to secure and maintain viable employment. Each Momentum graduate completes a rigorous six-week course, including 100 hours of in-class instruction and volunteer work experience. In addition, graduates are placed into good-paying jobs from the network of local employers. The program includes life skill services, workforce readiness training, and job placement services.
Provides FIP recipients with work experience that will enhance their work skills and increase their employment potential, while providing a service that will be of benefit to the community. Participants in Promise Jobs are assigned to work sites three days per week (or more), eight hours per day, for a maximum of six months. They will, to the maximum extent possible, learn and perform all assignments associated with a position. Participants do not receive wages for work performed, but instead receive a transportation allowance, child care assistance if necessary, and Workers' Compensation Coverage from Promise Jobs.

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Welfare to Work Programs
Job Search/Placement
Occupation Specific Job Training

Provides augmentative and alternative communication options through assistive technology, which enables children and youth with disabilities to participate more fully in all aspects of life. Augmentative and Alternative Communication includes various communication methods that enhance or replace verbal speech or writing for individuals with communication disabilities. Check the team resource folders for additional Assistive Technology & Augmentative and Alternative Communication information for IEP teams to consider and utilize including AT Information and Tools, AAC Information and Tools, or use the form link on the website to request AAC Collaboration.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Occupation Specific Job Training
Improves the quality of life of individuals by providing training, education and employment programs.

SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT assists those who have barriers to employment in obtaining and maintaining employment in the community.

DAY SERVICES is for adults with a diagnosed disability to work on their independent living skills in a stimulating and community integrated environment. Participants have opportunities to plan activities, volunteer, learn to self-advocate and have fun with a group of their peers.

**PAID SKILLS TRAINING listed separately.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Supported Employment
Vocational Education
Vocational Rehabilitation
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Prevocational Training
Vocational Assessment
Provides American Indian employment and training programs. Call for more information.
Promise Jobs provides FIP recipients with experience that will enhance their work skills and increase their employment potential, while providing a service that will benefit the community. They will, to the maximum extent possible, learn and perform all assignments associated with a position. Participants do not receive wages for work performed, but instead receive a transportation allowance, child care assistance if necessary, and Workers' Compensation Coverage from Promise Jobs.

Categories

Job Search/Placement
Occupation Specific Job Training
Welfare to Work Programs