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Award Purpose:

Quest DWG projects advance the department's promise to create high-quality jobs and a skilled workforce and reflect the administration's commitment to providing opportunities for all workers to overcome the employment, economic, and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The grants enable individuals adversely affected by the pandemic and the social and economic inequities that the pandemic exacerbated to enter, return to, or advance in high-quality jobs in growth industries such as infrastructure, environment and climate, the care economy, and other critical sectors. Quest DWGs also address business and industry needs for a resilient and skilled workforce.

Activities Performed:

Employment and training activities include career services such as assessment, career planning, and navigation, supportive services, and work-based learning and other training opportunities relevant to participants' career pathway. Strategic partnership activities will include implementing new and expanding established local and regional sector partnerships to inform strategies for aligning business needs with training and education, providing eligible workers with opportunities to train for or translate their existing skills into high-quality jobs, and addressing participants' supportive service needs. Community and potential participant outreach activities will focus on local strategies to engage priority communities, trusted ambassadors, and participants based on established best practices and may include informational sessions with community-based organizations and potential participants, materials translation, coordinating community meetings with community ambassadors, periodicals, social media campaigns, flyers, consulting client advisory councils, and consulting with the statewide WorkSource brand and marketing group to consider standardized communication strategies to reach Wagner-Peyser and other state program participants. Business engagement activities will be led by local business services providers who will design employment opportunities that effectively attract potential candidates via competitive wages, desirable fringe benefits, remodeling corporate culture, opportunities for professional growth, taking pride in staff retention rates, and succession planning to create promotion opportunities.

Deliverables:

- 885 planned participants enrolled.

Intended Beneficiary:

Individuals from historically marginalized and underserved populations.

Subrecipient Activities:

Local workforce development boards will complete appropriate workforce development activities related to the project.

Washington State Department Of Employment Security

17.277 - WIOA National Dislocated Worker Grants / WIA National Emergency Grants

Employment and Training Administration (ETA) [DOL]

Office of Workforce Investment [DOL - ETA]

Washington United States

State-Wide

Quality Jobs, Equity, Strategy, and Training (QUEST) Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grants (DWGs) (ETA-TEGL-02-22-DWG)

Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been extended from 09/30/24 to 09/30/25.