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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 will include services to bridge employment gaps such as job search assistance, workforce preparation, career development services, entrepreneurship training, as well as training such as work-based learning, on-the-job training, and registered apprenticeship programs designed in partnership with employers, and supportive services including needs-related payments to ensure positive outcomes. Disaster relief employment activities will include creating three temporary job navigator positions that will address the needs of job seekers to access mental health services to find employment and training for those who, because of COVID-19, cannot return to their previous occupations or in-person work. Strategic partnership activities will bring together industry and community leaders to collaboratively develop solutions to demand sector needs, scale career pathways, and provide coordinated services to program participants. Community and potential participant outreach activities will leverage co-located American Job Center partners representing veterans, county social service, education, and other partners representing labor unions and community-based organizations programs to reach high-need, underserved communities experiencing large concentrations of unemployed individuals. Business engagement activities will include identifying skill needs and developing strategies to meet those while addressing barriers to employment and job retention by mediating disagreements among stakeholders, collecting data, reporting, program evaluation, and sharing best/promising practices to inform the training curriculum.

Deliverables

- 1297 planned participants enrolled.

Intended Beneficiary

Individuals from historically marginalized communities that include the underserved, justice-involved, women, veterans, housing insecure, Native Americans, immigrants, low-wage workers, people of color, and people with disabilities.

Subrecipient Activities

Local workforce development boards will enroll and train participants.

California Department Of Employment Development

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

Employment and Training Administration (ETA) [DOL]

Office of Workforce Investment [DOL - ETA]

California 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.