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For more information call: (202) 219-6871.
The U.S. Department of Labor, continuing the Clinton
Administration's commitment to provide convenient and useful career services to
America's workers, employers and job seekers, is awarding more than $25 million
to seven states to develop one- stop career center systems, Secretary of Labor
Robert B. Reich announced today.
"One stop career centers, with their array of services from
training to links with educational and social service systems, are becoming the
most effective tool to help workers and job seekers to make career decisions,"
Reich said. "Those decisions will be based on the best training, reemployment
and assistance services available in their area."
Reich said that these one-stop career centers systems
provide workers with a full array of services and information they need about
programs, benefits and opportunities available to them to find new jobs.
Under the one-stop implementation grants announced today,
New Jersey will receive $4,775,000; Illinois $6,685,000; North Carolina
$3,820,000; Missouri $2,089,000; Kentucky $3,343,000; Arizona, $3,343,000; and
Louisiana, $1,592,000. Connecticut, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Texas, and
Wisconsin have already been granted implementation funds. Funds for
implementation grants to Indiana($4,297,500), Minnesota($3,820,000) and
Ohio($6,685,000), announced earlier this year, will be released later this
month.
Today's announcement brings to 16 the number of states that
have been selected to receive one-stop implementation grants designed to create
full-service, high-quality career center systems.
Each of the 16 states has developed separate statewide work
plans for one-stop career centers specifically designed to address the needs of
that state and built on previously established networks. For example, in
Illinois, nearly 100 local and state representatives from various employment
and training organizations and the private sector were organized into the one-
stop career task force which developed a comprehensive plan to guide the
development of the Illinois One-Stop Network.
Also, last year 19 states were awarded planning and
development grants; of these, four are among the implementation grants
announced today.
Reich said the remaining states and territories will be
offered planning and development grants and they include: Alabama, Arkansas,
Delaware, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Tennessee, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Wyoming. Approximately $4 million has been
set aside for this purpose.
Brief descriptions of the work plans for the seven states
receiving implementation grants are attached.
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