RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, on behalf of the Workforce Development Board of Contra Costa, to execute a non-financial Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Rehabilitation as a host agency to the Title V Workforce Experience Program to provide training and and work experience services to Title V qualified older adults in Contra Costa County, including mutual indemnification against any claim arising out of the performance of this agreement for the period of January 1, 2010 through March 31, 2011.

FISCAL IMPACT:

No fiscal impact. Non-Financial Memorandum of Understanding.

BACKGROUND:

The Title V Work Experience Program gives participants an opportunity to learn job skills. Host agencies that agree to participate in the Title V Work Experience Program provide training and guidance to the program participants in the areas of soft skills, including work etiquette and workplace culture, and hard skills, including job/employment skills training and practice in the use of recently acquired skills. The Department of Rehabilitation, as a host agency to the program, will provide skills training to older adults in Contra Costa County.