This grant provides for reentry services to begin while participants are still incarcerated and to continue post-release. These services are designed to eliminate the time gap between release from prison and enrollment into a workforce development reentry program leading to skills-based employment.
The ROSS Service Coordinator Program helps public housing and Indian housing residents toward economic, physical, and mental stability by providing funding to hire a Service Coordinator who assesses the needs of residents and links them to local training and supportive services.
The Indian and Native American Program (INAP) Employment and Training Grants supports employment and training activities for Indians and Native Americans throughout the United States by awarding grant funding to eligible entities at the local level for the provision of employment services focused on youth or adults.
The Workforce Pathways for Youth grant supports soft-skill development, career exploration, job readiness and certification, summer jobs, year-round job opportunities and apprenticeships in out-of-school time organizations nationwide.
Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities (WORC): A Grant Initiative for the Appalachian and Delta Regions is a grant focused on economic development strategies in rural communities that are recovering slowly from being hard hit by economic transition.
The Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes grant funds improvement to reentry education and employment. The grant supports the enhancement of corrections systems’ ability to implement and expand education and employment programs that serve individuals during incarceration and throughout their period of reentry into the community.
The Growth Opportunities grant funds opportunities increasing employment opportunities for justice-involved youth and young adults living in neighborhoods with high crime. The grant funds programs helping youth and young adults to increase their conflict resolution skills and develop strategies to prevent and avoid violence; introduce and prepare youth for the world of work; help youth identify career interests, attain relevant skills and gain work experience; and provide income to youth, to start them on the path of earning living wages and obtaining high quality jobs and careers.
The grant funds organizations to provide a pre-apprenticeship program model that encompasses education, occupational skills training, leadership development, and high-quality post-program placement opportunities to opportunity youth. YouthBuild is a community-based alternative education program for youth between the ages of 16 and 24 who left high school prior to graduation and who also have other risk factors, including being an adjudicated youth, a youth aging out of foster care, a youth with disabilities, a migrant farmworker youth, a youth experiencing housing instability, and other disadvantaged youth populations.
