Will award six to 10 grants

Also, DOL’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) – in coordination with ODEP – has announced the availability of approximately $22 million for cooperative agreements to state Workforce Investment Act (WIA) administering entities. This funding is being used to implement the Disability Employment Initiative (DEI), under which the Department intends to make six to 10 grant awards that are designed to:

1. Improve educational, training, and employment opportunities and outcomes of youth and adults with disabilities who are unemployed, underemployed and/or receiving Social Security disability benefits; and

2. Help these individuals find a path into the middle class through exemplary and model service delivery by the public workforce system.

The application deadline for this funding opportunity is Sept. 8, 2010. For more information, click here.