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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 Pacific Gateway to operate a transitional subsidized employment program for approximately $80,000 for families in the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program; to execute any needed subsequent amendments; and to increase appropriations by $80,000 in the Community Development Grants Fund (SR 150) in the Human Resources Department (HR). (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 (CalWORKs) 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 CalWORKs single allocation 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 de...
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