This notice is intended to alert the workforce investment system of a national partnership among the Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Treasury and Labor (DOL) to expand awareness of mortgage relief for UI claimants and unemployed workers, and to lay out the actions required to implement the partnership.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (The Recovery Act) was signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009. The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) will issue formal guidance to all states within 30 days of enactment for implementation of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and Wagner-Peyser funding under the Recovery Act. This notice describes the initial plans ETA has developed for implementing these programs under the Recovery Act. Formal guidance is forthcoming.

To announce the release and availability of ETA’s First Step:  A Youth Practitioner’s Resource Guide to Supportive Services.

To alert State Workforce Agencies and Local Workforce Investment Board (LWIB) Executive Directors about a study being conducted on services to youth with disabilities in the public workforce system, and to encourage voluntary responses to the Survey of Workforce Investment Act Services Provided to Youth with Disabilities (Youth with Disabilities Survey). A combined effort of the Department of Labor’s (Department) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and Office of Disability Employment Policy, the primary purpose of the Youth with Disabilities Survey is to get an analytical overview of services provided by local workforce agencies to this population. The responses to the survey will be analyzed and used to gain a better understanding of how young people with disabilities are being served within the workforce system and to identify mechanisms for enhancing these efforts.

To inform State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of the 2009 MAFO National Farmworker and the Monitor Advocate Training Sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Region IV Dallas Office being held in San Antonio, Texas, March 29-April 1, 2009.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to provide information to the workforce investment system to support the Department of Education’s roll out of the 2009-2010 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The 2009-2010 FAFSA has been revised to include questions asking whether an individual or an individual’s spouse or parent is a dislocated worker, which will be used when determining need for financial aid. This notice will guide the workforce investment system and the state Unemployment Insurance (UI) agency in providing information to One-Stop Career Center customers and supporting financial aid administrators at public, private, and proprietary (for-profit) post-secondary institutions.

To announce the National Conference for UI Tax Administration that will be held in Savannah, Georgia, August 16 – 19, 2009.

To announce the release and availability of Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Occasional Paper:  Implementation Evaluation of the Community-Based Job Training Grant (CBJTG) Program.

To announce the release and availability of the Interim Report: Assisting Newcomers through Employment and Support Services: An Evaluation of the New Americans Centers Demonstration Project in Arkansas and Iowa prepared by The Urban Institute.

To inform the workforce investment system of the cancellation of this Employment and Training Administration (ETA) sponsored conference in 2009.