DW392082260A1

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 in the Alabama Skills-Based Recovery Initiative (ASBRI) include work readiness instruction, career planning, on-the-job training, apprenticeships, supportive services, and job placement. Program completers will be hired in positions such as assemblers, billing clerks, computer support specialists, construction laborers, industrial equipment operators, machine repairers, medical secretaries, operating engineers, and phlebotomists that offer wages of at least $15 per hour. Disaster relief employment activities include hiring disaster relief workers for the state's hardest-hit industries and providing the workers with training and supportive services to prepare them for high-quality employment. Strategic partnership activities will include developing partnerships to help sustain the workforce infrastructure that provides high-quality training that leads to employment and alleviates local worker shortages created by the pandemic. Use the Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways (ACCCP) models to provide transparent career path mapping to participants to help them progress through the different training and employment activities. Community and potential participant outreach activities will include actively engaging community-based organizations, including denominational churches, women's groups, immigration services, veterans' affairs agencies and advocates, rehabilitation services, historically black colleges and universities, non-profits serving ethnic populations, special needs organizations, business owners, and the chambers of commerce. Business engagement activities will align with Alabama's postsecondary education attainment plan, Success Plus, and Alabama's regional and statewide lists of in-demand occupations promulgated by ACCCP to ensure that participant outcomes include competencies needed by demand sectors.

Deliverables:
375 planned participants enrolled.

Intended Beneficiary:
Marginalized populations, including African Americans, Latinos, single women, working people under 25, people with disabilities, people from remote rural communities, and former service industry workers (food, entertainment, accommodation).

Subrecipient Activities:
Local workforce development boards will enroll and train participants.

Alabama Department Of Commerce

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

Employment and Training Administration (ETA) [DOL]

Office of Workforce Investment [DOL - ETA]

Alabama 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.