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    501 North Cass Lake Road, Waterford, MI 48328
    Phone: 248.682.3417   Fax: 248.682.0512
    Hours: Monday thru Friday 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.

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    Workforce Investment Act Adult and Dislocated Workers Training and Job Placement

    Adult and Dislocated Worker Activities:

    All customers receive employment services through the Michigan Works system. Employment Services are available to anyone 18 years of age or older.


    Non-Registered Services

    Core Services:
    • Outreach/Intake: Provided to all job seekers and employers.
    • Orientation/Informational: These services are basically
      informational in nature and include a wide array of self-directed activity.
    • Initial Assessment/Supportive Services Information: These services are basically
      informational in nature and include a wide array of self-directed activity.
    • Job Development: Self-service and informational activities.
    • Screened Referrals: Self-service and informational activities.
    • Talent Bank Referrals:
    • Job search, job referrals and job placement.
    • Labor Market Information: Job leads and information on skills or jobs.
    • Labor Market Information: Information on demand occupations, wage and skill requirements.
    • Provision of Performance Information: Information and cost of training
    • Provision of Information: Filing of Unemployment Claims.
    • Assistance in establishing Eligibility: Welfare to Work and financial aid for training.
    • Eligibility Determination: WIA registration.
    • Resource Room Usage: Internet assistance and accounts.
    • "How to": Group sessions.

    Registered Services Core Services:

    • Follow-up services, including counseling regarding the workplace for WIA enrollees placed
      in unsubsidized employment for not less than 12 months.
    • Job Development, Job Clubs and Screened Referral when staff-assisted customized service.

    Adult and dislocated workers eligible to receive "Intensive Services" must meet specified criteria.

    Intensive Services (Must have at least one)
    • Diagnostic, in depth interviews, and other in-depth and comprehensive assessments to
      determine employment barriers and goals.
    • ISS/CP
    • Group Counseling
    • Individual Counseling and career planning
    • Case management for individuals seeking training services.
    • Short term prevocational: learning, communication, interviewing, punctuality, personal maintenance,
      and professional conduct skills to prepare individuals for unsubsidized employment or training.
    • Work experience (Reg. 663.200)
    • Basic skills.
    Training Services
    • Occupational.
    • On the Job Training
    • Workplace and instruction.
    • Upgrading and retraining.
    • Job readiness training
    • Adult Education and literacy in combination with other training.
    Adult and dislocated workers eligible to receive Training shall meet the criteria specified for access to "Intensive Services" as well as other criteria.

    Workforce Investment Act
    Eligibility Requirements

    Eligibility Requirements: Wia Adult 18 years+, WIA Dislocated Worker Core Services
    1. General population 18 years old +
      Intensive Services
    2. Has received at least one core service and is unemployed, and unable to obtain employment
      through core services, and determined to be in need of more intensive services in order to obtain
      employment, or
    3. Has received at least one core service and is employed but determined as in need of intensive
      services in order to obtain or retain employment that allows for self-sufficiency (LLS or % of lay-off
      wage if dislocated), and
    4. Meet Priority: low-income, welfare recipient and/or not self-sufficient.
    5. Not Self-sufficient:
      • Adult: Individual's income does not meet or exceed maximum HUD guidelines.
      • Dislocated Worker: Individual's income does not meet or exceed maximum HUD guidelines,
        or is employed at less than their dislocation wage, whichever comes last.
    Training Services
    1. Meet Intensive Service req. 1, 2 and 3, if required and
    2. Received at least one core service, and
    3. Determined to have skills and qualifications to complete training program directly linked to employment
      in demand in area or out of area, and
    4. Unable to obtain other training funds include. Pell or needs additional WIA dollars to pay for training, and
    5. Displaced Worker, OR
    6. Displaced Homemaker, and
    7. Meet Priority: low-income, welfare recipient and/or not self-sufficient, and
    8. Preference/priority will be given to Oakland County Residents
    9. Not Self-sufficient:
      • Adult: Individual's income does not meet or exceed maximum HUD guidelines.
      • Dislocated Worker: Individual's income does not meet or exceed maximum HUD guidelines,
        or is employed at less than their dislocation wage, whichever comes last.

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  • The Waterford Career Center
    A Division of the Waterford School District
    Equal Opportunity Employer/Program
    Funded by the State of Michigan, the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and
    Economic Growth, the Oakland County Workforce Development Board and
    L. Brooks Patterson, Oakland County Executive.
    Aids and Auxiliary Services Available Upon Request to Persons with Disabilities
    Telephone Number for the Deaf and Deafened: TTY: 1-800-649-3777

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