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The goal of the Welfare-to-Work Committee is to design and oversee a strategy that attains the goals of the Work First New Jersey program while ensuring that Welfare recipients are transitioned into permanent, unsubsidized employment within the five (5) year time limit. Other functions include:
· Develop strategies for moving recipients into unsubsidized employment; · Develop a plan to utilize the One-Stop System to prevent welfare dependency; · Develop a plan to utilize Youth Investment Council and other education initiatives to provide services to teen parents and to prevent teen pregnancy; · Develop a plan/evaluation process for the employment, training and educational programs of Burlington County so that they may be modified to effectively respond to the Workforce Readiness needs of the welfare population; · Develop a plan to coordinate the Burlington County Workforce Readiness Systems with Drug and Alcohol Treatment programs to effectively mainstream the population into employment; · Recommend how Work First New Jersey and Welfare-to-Work funding can most effectively be utilized to supplement local Workforce Readiness resources; · Develop relationships with the business community to effectively serve the welfare customers of Burlington County.
Chairman: Stephen R. Adler, Independent Consulting |
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Workforce Investment Board (WIB) 795 Woodlane Road P.O. Box 6000 Westampton, NJ 08060 (609) 265-5603 |
