Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board Inc

Workforce innovation and opportunity act (wioa) adult and dislocated workers programs seek to improve employment, retention, and earnings of wioa participants and increase their educational and occupational skill attainment, thereby improving the quality of the workforce, reducing welfare dependency, and enhancing national productivity and competitiveness. Youth activities seek to increase the attainment of basic skills, work readiness, or occupational skills, and secondary diplomas or other credentials. A person is eligible to receive services under youth activities if they are between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one at the time of enrollment and demonstrate at least one of the following barriers to employment: deficient in basic literacy skills, a school dropout, homeless, a runaway, a foster child, pregnant or parenting, offender, or an individual who requires additional assistance to complete an educational program or to secure and hold employment. Southwest wisconsin workforce development board served 780 participants during the year.

Pathway home - pathway home provides eligible incarcerated individuals in state correctional facilities or local or county jails with workforce services prior to release and continues services after release by transitioning the participants into reentry programs in the communities in which they will return. This grant is job-driven and builds connections to local employers that will enable transitioning offenders to secure employment by ensuring participants are prepared to meet the needs of their local labor markets with the skills valued by employers. Southwest wisconsin workforce development board served 465 participants during the year.