• DWGs are supplemental resources that provide flexibility responding and recovering from qualifying events (disasters and layoff events)

• The projects align with existing state and local priorities, resources, and programs including coordination with local government, emergency management agencies, social service agencies, employers and industry organizations, education, faith-based organization, public health, etc.

• DWGs should not be stand-alone programs, the design should coordinate with existing efforts through Rapid Response/layoff aversion, formula-funded activities, business engagement efforts, and more

• Expectation that projects demonstrate intent to maximize positive outcomes for participants
  

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) identifies two categories under National Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) program.  This includes Disaster Recover (DR) and Employment Recovery (ER). Employment Recovery DWGs include DWGs for Dislocated Service Members. 

The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity was awarded a $3,000,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to provide employment and training services to help reemploy dislocated workers from historically marginalized communities or groups and those dislocated workers unemployed for an extended period as the state recovers from the unprecedented employment and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Services will be delivered through Illinois' Workforce System, providing comprehensive career and training services and technological solutions to expand accessibility to diverse populations of job seekers to connect the unemployed to reemployment. Learn more on the CAREER DWG page.

National Dislocated Worker Grant NOFO

Population to be Served: Employers

Eligible Applicants: Community Based Organizations

Program Length: October 1, 2018 - September 30, 2020

The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity announced the release of the updated Notice of Funding Opportunity under the National Dislocated Worker Grant Program. For more information, click here.