What Training Services Are Available? Title II-A -- authorizes training and services for the economically disadvantaged and others who face significant employment barriers. Training is afforded through grants to states for local training and employment programs. States are responsible for further allocating funds to their SDAs and for overseeing the planning and operation of local programs. Program services include an assessment of an unemployed individual's needs and abilities and a strategy of services such as classroom training, on-the-job training, job-search assistance, work experience, counseling, basic skills training and support services. Title II-B -- offers economically disadvantaged young people jobs and training during the summer. This includes work-experience programs and support services such as transportation. Academic enrichment also is a major part of the program and may include basic and remedial education. Title II-C -- provides year-round training and employment programs for youth, both in and out of school. Program services may include all authorized adult services, limited internships in the private sector, school-to-work transition services and alternative high school services. Title III -- the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act authorizes employment and training help for dislocated workers. Workers who lose their jobs in mass layoffs or plant closings, and others who have been laid off and are unlikely to return to their jobs can take advantage of the following services: early intervention programs, occupational skill training, job search assistance, support services and relocation assistance. Locally, services are designed and managed by substate grantees which typically correspond to the SDAs established to manage Title II programs. In August 1988, Congress passed the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), which requires advance notice of plant closing or mass layoffs. It allows affected workers, their unions, local governments and state dislocated worker units to begin the process of training these workers to productive jobs in a timely manner. Title IV -- authorizes federal programs for native Americans, migrant and seasonal farm workers and veterans. It also authorizes Job Corps, the National Commission for Employment Policy, nationally-administered programs of technical assistance, labor-market information, research and evaluation and pilot and demonstration programs. Title VI -- amends the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933, which authorizes federal-state employment service programs. NEXT Economic Development | Info & Statistics | Events & Attractions Our County & Communities | News | Contacts | Home Free JavaScripts provided by The JavaScript Source © 1998-02 Scioto County Government. All rights reserved.