This amendment is adding additional funding and a service training program called "Career Connections." The Career Connections Program will provide job readiness skills needed for clients to be able to learn about the current job market, develop resume writing skills, current interviewing techniques and interpersonal behavior useful for employment.
The Finding Opportunities Careers for Ultimate Self-sufficiency (FOCUS), Essential Skills for Success (Essential Skills), and Career Connections Programs (the Program) offer WTW participants the opportunity to participate in vocational training and/or job skills workshops at the Liberty Adult Education school. The Program is intended to provide clients with additional assessment, support, and training/educational services. Program outcomes seek to help clients further define and advance their educational and professional paths, ultimately leading to job placement or continued educational attainment.
The Program is intended to offer WTW participants an opportunity to increase their awareness of how their views and experiences shape their perception about work, money, and the circumstances of their lives. Understanding their role enables participants to decrease the barriers and increase the motivation to set goals and accomplish them.
The original interagency agreement with Liberty Adult Education was approved by the Board of Supervisors on April 24, 2018 (C.41), in the amount of $64,000, for the period July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019. An amendment to the interagency agreement was approved by the Board of Supervisors on October 23, 2018 (C.32) to add an additional service training program called "Essential Skills for Success."
Without approval of amended agreement, program participants will receive less services geared toward job placement and/or continued education attainment, resulting in continued reliance on public benefits.