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Committee accepts state workforce grants totaling several hundred thousand to multimillion dollars to expand training and apprenticeships
Summary
The Lake County Health and Community Services Committee voted to accept multiple Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity workforce grants, including a WIOA formula award of $8,516,791, to fund personnel, training, youth contracts and rapid response services.
The Lake County Health and Community Services Committee on July 29 voted to accept multiple state workforce grants, including a Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) formula award of $8,516,791 and supplemental grants, to support county job-center operations, training and rapid response services. The committee approved the items by voice vote during its meeting.
The resolutions authorize emergency appropriations for the Lake County Workforce Development Department to cover personnel, operations, direct participant supports and pilot programs. Director Jennifer Serino told the committee the formula award represents a more than 24% increase from the prior year and that “60% of those funds go directly to participants.”
The awards described by staff include: the WIOA program year 2025 formula grant of…
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