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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 customized dislocated worker services such as assessments of employment and supportive service needs, and in-depth evaluations to identify employment barriers and appropriate employment goals before connecting participants to classroom and work-based training modalities such as work experiences, on-the-job training, and registered apprenticeships, and ongoing one-on-one career advising and wrap-around supportive services. Strategic partnership activities will build upon the service delivery model and the partnership network established through the state's opioid dislocated worker grant, which helped build the cross-sector relationships needed to develop robust referral pipelines that enable the identification, enrollment, and support for eligible participants (including incarcerated and justice-involved individuals) entering into sustainable careers in green energy, healthcare, infrastructure, and other targeted industry sectors. Community and potential participant outreach activities will focus on reaching priority populations through efforts by the local workforce development boards, service providers, and other community-based organizations, that will partner to create social media outreach campaigns, resource navigation workshops, referral pipelines, and ensure equity of services reaching the target population. Business engagement activities will focus on better outreach to the business community in Maine, including through the development or expansion of registered apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeship activities.

Deliverables

778 planned participants enrolled.

Intended Beneficiary

Long-term unemployed individuals, including people recovering from substance use disorder and justice-involved individuals, low-wage workers, women, and racial and ethnic minorities.

Subrecipient Activities

Local workforce development boards will enroll and train participants.

Maine Department Of Labor

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

Employment and Training Administration (ETA) [DOL]

Office of Workforce Investment [DOL - ETA]

Maine 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.