To announce the Employment and Training Administration's (ETA) plans to recognize state workforce agencies that perform best in administering their UI programs

To announce details of two RJM training sessions for state staff.

General Administration Letters (GALs) have been eliminated as an advisory series. However, active GALs remain in the system. Attached are listings showing the status of these GALs as of October 1, 2005.

The attached checklist updates the status of Training and Employment Guidance Letters (TEGLs) since the last checklist transmitted by Training and Employment Notices 7-01 and 7-01, Change 1.

Copies of TEGLs are available on the Advisory web site at: http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/.

To announce the release of the Special Tabulation of Census 2000 Data on Limited English Proficient Adults, and a Glossary of Translated Workforce Terms. These are planning and resource tools for states and local workforce areas to use in providing services to Limited English Proficient (LEP) groups in those areas.

To provide information and resources to states and local areas to encourage the outreach and recruitment of homeless and runaway youth, including youth displaced by recent hurricanes, into employment and training programs funded under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Youth program.

To announce three training sessions on program reporting and performance management. These events are intended to clarify the Department’s policy on common measures; review the final reporting changes necessary for each program in order to accommodate the common measures; provide a forum to discuss policy questions and raise issues with federal staff; support integration by targeting multiple programs and providing inclusive training; and provide information, clarification, materials and tools to states for their use in training local staff.

To inform states and local areas about the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (CFCIP) and how WIA youth programs can access its Education and Training Vouchers to assist foster care youth and those aging out of foster care complete post-secondary education and training.

To inform the state workforce agencies (SWAs) of special filing "relief periods" for Work Opportunity/Welfare-to-Work Tax Credits (WOTC/WtWTC) certification requests in Presidentially Declared Disaster Areas.