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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents with the City of Hawthorne on behalf of the South Bay Workforce Investment Board, for the Workforce Investment Network to operate a subsidized employment program for families in the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program funded by up to $880,000 in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds through June 30, 2010, and to execute any needed subsequent amendments. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The County's Department of Public Social Services operates a transitional subsidized employment program (TSE Program) for families receiving public assistance through the statewide California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CaIWORKs) program. CalWORKs provides cash aid, employment services, and other benefits to needy families. The TSE Program has been deployed to provide up to one year of work experience and training to CalWORKs adult residents with limited or no work history, the goal of which is to place them in unsubsidized jobs after training completion.
The Department of Public Social Services has contracted with the South Bay Workforce Investment Board (WIB) to serve as TSE Program coordinator and facilitator in Los Angeles County with the support of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Funds. To that end, the South Bay WIB has created the infrastructure for One-Stop Centers such as the Career Transition Center, Torrance Career Center and Harbor WorkSource Center to access a centralized temporary payroll and work site development mechanism to place local resident trainees.
Workforce Investment Network staff will work with existing families in the CalWORKs program with priority given to Los Angeles County referrals of local residents whose sixty-month time limit on public assistance is nearing an end. Staff will provide those trainees with an assessment and review of skills development to-date, create an updated training and development plan, develop work ...
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