Grants Awarded by the U.S. Department of
Labor Office of Disability Employment Policy October 2003
Ending Chronic Homelessness through Employment and
Housing Cooperative Agreements ($ 3,121,686):
ODEP and its partners within DOL, the Veterans and Training
Service (VETS) and the Employment and Training Administration (ETA), in
cooperation with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), have
designed cooperative agreements to increase and improve employment
opportunities for chronically homeless individuals with disabilities through a
local partnership with HUD housing providers. The goal of the DOL cooperative
agreements is to enable persons who are chronically homeless to achieve
employment and self-sufficiency, thereby preventing unnecessary institutional
placements. The DOL awards to the communities listed below are supplemented by
parallel HUD permanent housing grants. This program will afford ODEP the
opportunity to evaluate whether partnerships of employment and permanent
housing services result in a higher employment rate for people with
disabilities. These demonstration grants will begin or expand the delivery and
implementation of customized employment strategies for homeless
individuals with disabilities so that they may live, work, and fully
participate in their communities.
Grant Recipient & Amount
Worksystems, Inc. Portland, Oregon
$625,000
Boston Private Industry Council Boston,
Massachusetts $622,912
Private Industry Council of San Francisco,
Inc. San Francisco, California $624,823
Indianapolis Private Industry Council, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana $623,951
City of Los Angeles Workforce Investment
Board Los Angeles, California $625,000
Working for Freedom, Opportunity and Real Choice Through
Community Employment (WorkFORCE) Action Grant Initiative
($1,717,036):
These grants continue ODEPs development and documentation of
programs that address the capability of individuals transitioning from
segregated environments, such as nursing homes and institutions, to
successfully participate in community employment through utilization of
customized strategies. These three new grants will continue this effort, begun
by ODEP in FY02, to begin or expand the delivery and implementation of
customized community employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities
so that they may live, work, and fully participate in their communities.
Grant Recipient & Amount
WayStation, Inc. Frederick, Maryland
$620,646
The Arc of Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee
$625,000
Columbia River Mental Health Services
Vancouver, Washington $471,390
High School/High Tech (HS/HT) State Development and
Implementation Grants ($ 1,586,396.00):
These grants assist states, working in partnership with the State
Workforce Investment Board, in implementing a statewide HS/HT program, in
integrating the HS/HT program into youth services funded under the Workforce
Investment Act, and in ensuring sustainability of the HS/HT program through
state-level management and coordination. HS/HT is a career development program
designed to provide high school aged youth with disabilities with an
opportunity to explore careers or gain further education that may lead to
technology-related careers. These programs provide both in-school and
out-of-school youth with disabilities with year-round work-based learning
activities, including corporate site visits, mentoring, job shadowing, guest
speakers, after school activities and summer internships.
Grant Recipient & Amount
HS/HT State Implementation Grants
Michigan Department of Career Development
Lansing, Michigan $225,000
Ohio Governors Council on People with
Disabilities Columbus, Ohio $225,000
Delaware Department of Labor, Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation Wilmington, Delaware $225,000
Colorado Business Leadership Network Colorado
Springs, Colorado $224,990
The Able Trust Tallahassee, Florida
$225,000
HS/HT Development Grants:
Bethany Public Schools Bethany, Oklahoma
$225,000
Maryland State Department of Education
Division of Rehabilitation Services Baltimore, Maryland $224,997
Innovative State Alignment Grants for Improving Transition
Outcomes for Youth with Disabilities through the Use of Intermediaries
($3,856,557.00):
This grant initiative assists states to conduct resource mapping
to assess their youth service delivery infrastructure in light of
evidence-based transition operating principles. The grants are also intended to
help states in: 1) developing, implementing, and evaluating a cross-agency
multi-year state plan to improve transition outcomes for youth with
disabilities through blending and/or braiding of federal, state, and community
resources and the use of local intermediary organizations; and 2) conducting
local pilot demonstrations to determine how, through community partnerships,
intermediary organizations can best be used to ensure that youth with
disabilities obtain transition services consistent with evidence-based
operating principles.
Grant Recipient & Amount
Innovative State Alignment Grants
New Hampshire Workforce Opportunity Council
Concord, New Hampshire $500,000
State of Iowa, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Services Des Moines, Iowa $499,243
Vermont Department of Employment and Training
on Behalf of the Human Resources Investment Council Montpelier,
Vermont $499,131
Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development,
Division Partnerships Anchorage, Alaska $500,000
Minnesota Governors Workforce Development Council
St. Paul, Minnesota $500,000
Massachusetts State Workforce Investment
Board Boston, Massachusetts $500,00
California Workforce Investment Board
Sacramento, California $500,000
Department of Local Affairs/Colorado Workforce Development
Denver, Colorado $358,183
Intermediary Grants for Mentoring Youth with
Disabilities ($880,710.00):
The purpose of these grants, representing a collaborative effort
between ODEP, DOL's Center for Faith- Based and Community Initiatives, and the
Rehabilitation Services Administration of the Department of Education, is to
build the capacity and knowledge of faith-based and community organizations to
provide mentoring services to young people with disabilities through the
funding of intermediary organizations. A substantial portion of the award will
be sub-awarded by the intermediary to eligible local faith-based and community
organizations to conduct mentoring activities including, but not limited to,
adult and peer mentoring, e-mentoring, tutoring, job-shadowing, service
learning, leadership development, and youth development. Grant funds may be
used for activities that establish, implement, or support a mentoring program
for youth with disabilities.
Grant Recipient & Amount
Partners for Youth with Disabilities, Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts $150,000
Oregon Health & Science Universitys Center for
Self-Determination (CSD) Portland, Oregon $150,000
South Coast Business Employment Corporation
Coos Bay, Oregon $149,967
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
Chicago, Illinois $150,000
Pangea Foundation San Diego, California
$149,677
Maine Mentoring Partnership, Inc. Augusta,
Maine $131,066
Customized Employment Grant Initiative ($
3,427,459):
The Customized Employment Grant Initiative, begun by ODEP in
FY01, provides funding support to selected Local Workforce Investment
Boards, to demonstrate how the workforce development system can better serve
persons who are significantly disabled. The Local Board will be the lead entity
in a consortium/partnership of public and private entities, to build the
capacity in local One-Stop Centers to provide customized employment services to
those persons with disabilities who may not now be regularly targeted for
services by the One-Stop Center system. Grants funded under this program will
also provide a vehicle for Local Boards to systemically review their policies
and practices in terms of service to persons with disabilities, and to
incorporate new and innovative practices, as appropriate.
Grant Recipient & Amount
Chicago Workforce Board Chicago, Illinois
$750,000
Montgomery County Workforce Investment Board
Rockville, Maryland $591,046
Workforce Investment Board of Herkimer, Madison and Oneida
Counties Utica, New York $618,619
Genesee/Shiawassee Workforce Development
Board Flint, Michigan $750,000
Montana Job Training Partnership, Inc.
Helena, Montana $717,794
Home Modification Grants ($700,000.00):
For people with disabilities and older Americans, an often-cited
barrier to participation in work and community life is the lack of affordable
home modifications, such as ramps, widened doorways, lowered countertops and
cabinetry accessible to those who use wheelchairs. Through the Presidents
Faith-Based and Community Initiative (FBCI), these grants facilitate a
leadership role for local faith-based and community organizations to assist
individuals with disabilities to remain in their homes, or to move into
accessible homes. To coordinate this effort, ODEP is partnering with the
Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and HUD to promote the
development of home modifications as a means to encourage the employment of
individuals with disabilities. This unique partnership will allow the Federal
government to promote both the spirit and the responsibilities of both the New
Freedom Initiative and the Olmstead Executive Order, while concurrently
recognizing the valuable community roles played by Americas faith-based
and community organizations. Moreover, these grants will assist individuals
with disabilities to remain in their homes or move into accessible housing and
thereby directly facilitate and provide these employment supports to further
their opportunities to seek and retain employment and training in their
communities.
Grant Recipient And Amount
Volunteer Interfaith Caregivers Sierra Vista,
Arizona $50,000 CHOICE, Inc. Arlington,
Virginia $96,765
ASSIST! To Independence Tuba City,
Arizona $100,000 Statewide Independent Living of Illinois
Springfield, Illinois $100,000
Disability Resource Center N. Charleston,
South Carolina $100,000
Council for Disability Rights Chicago,
Illinois $100,000
ASSIST, Inc. Salt Lake City, Utah
$100,000
Heartland Community Church Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma $53,235 |