SLED Opportunity · TEXAS · WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS GREATER DALLAS
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RFP for WIOA Opportunity Youth Services targeting youth ages 14-24, focusing on out-of-school youth, work experience, and career readiness in the Greater Dallas area.
Within Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Opportunity Youth (OY) services are available to eligible youth ages, 14-24, who face barriers to education, training, and employment. The WIOA Youth program focuses primarily on Out of School Youth (OSY) ages 16-24, requiring expenditures of a minimum of 75% of WIOA youth funds on OSY. This increased investment will be directed toward work experience in high growth sectors and funding tied to performance that demonstrates career readiness.The program includes fourteen program elements that are required to be made available to youth participants. WIOA prioritizes work experience through a 20% minimum expenditure rate for the work experience program element. Please see section WIOA §129, 29 U.S.C. §3164 for more information about the core programmatic requirements. Additional information is available on the WorkforceGPS resources page for Youth.
SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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