DW392202260A18

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 enhanced career services and occupational training based on proven integrated education and training models and workforce education programming that connects businesses and workers to adult education, high-quality training, and certification in high-demand occupations and industries. Strategic partnership activities will include collaborating with the Indiana Chamber Institute for Workforce Excellence, the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, and employer partners in high demand, recovering, and emerging sectors such as electric vehicle technologies, renewable energy, and semiconductor production, to inform a successful project design. Community and potential participant outreach activities will target individuals with an education level of less than high school equivalency, a population disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. Indiana will utilize advanced data analytics, community outreach, and stakeholder partnerships to define an outreach strategy to connect with and engage the target population in education and training activities and connect them to employers willing to invest in upskilling of talent through high-quality work-based learning models. Business engagement activities will focus on the state's critical economic sectors, particularly electric vehicle technologies, renewable energy, and semiconductor production. They will include events to surface employer needs and ensure alignment of business services and deliver resources and best practices for attracting, hiring, and retaining immigrant, refugee, and other underserved populations.

Deliverables:
- 1,000 planned participants enrolled.

Intended Beneficiary:
Individuals from historically marginalized communities and individuals who lack a high school equivalency certificate.

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

Indiana Department Of Workforce Development

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

Employment and Training Administration (ETA) [DOL]

Office of Workforce Investment [DOL - ETA]

Indiana 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 03/31/25.