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09/~4/99 TU~ 10:49 ~A~ 1704939~401 DSS 1~003 TO: FROM: DATE: SUB.CT: Jim Cook, Social Services Dirq~tor~r 9-34-99 - ( Grant Application for Employment ~d Training Program I am writing to request that the Board of Commissioners approve, at its 9-20-99 meeting, the Department's application for a 100% federal-funded grant to provide contracted employment and training services to certain unemployed Food Stamp Prom~n recipients. We submitted an application 9-13-99, in advance of the 9-15-99 deadline given by the State, stipulating that the application was subject to the approval of the Board of Commissioners. The grant program is intended to demonstrate effective methods of moving Food Stamp Program recipients classified as "ABAWDS" (for able bodied adults without dependants) into the labor force. We have at any point in time about 100 of these recipients. Each month, due to time limits for recipients and other factors, about 30 of these adults cycle on and offthe Food Stamp Program, so that as many as 360 persons may be seen in a year's time. These persons are unemployed or marginally employed: They have a variety of barriers to employment ranging from inadequate education, to limitations in life skills, to transportation problems. The program we have proposed would follow model used in the successful JOBS for Dads Program we operated for several years. Purchased social work and employment services together with provision of training, tools, work clothes, and other appropriate resources as needed would be utilized in the program. We have requested a total of $89,000 under this program. This is a population we believe it would be good to work with in this way. Please advise me of any additional information that may be needed. Thank you. Bepmx~ment of Social Services