{"id":6588,"date":"2012-04-16T11:29:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=6588"},"modified":"2012-04-16T11:29:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:29:49","slug":"federal-grants-available-to-help-idaho-teens-learn-job-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/04\/16\/federal-grants-available-to-help-idaho-teens-learn-job-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Grants Available To Help Idaho Teens Learn Job Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Idaho Workforce Development Council is looking for businesses willing to provide basic job skills for low-income, at-risk high school students.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-content alignleft\"><h4 class=\"related-header\">Related<\/h4><div class=\"links\"><h5>Posts<\/h5><ul><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/05\/economy-leaves-few-options-for-idaho-teens-who-want-need-work\/\">Economy Leaves Few Options For Idaho Teens Who Want, Need\u00a0Work<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/08\/jobs-for-idaho-teens-deteriorated-in-last-decade\/\">Jobs For Idaho Teens Deteriorated In Last Decade<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"topics\"><h5>Topics<\/h5><p class=\"topic\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/AppScn3-60x60.jpg\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/unemployment-app\/\">Work in Progress: Idaho\u2019s Unemployment App<\/a><\/p><p class=\"topic\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/09\/9-29-Unemployment-Benefits-Post-60x60.jpg\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/unemployment\/\">Tracking Idaho\u2019s Unemployment Rate<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The council has $1.1 million available for one-year grants.\u00a0 The money is from the federal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doleta.gov\/usworkforce\/wia\/act.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Workforce Investment Act<\/a>, and it must be matched by participating schools &#8212; either through cash or in-kind contributions like staff or facility use.<\/p>\n<p>Kay Vaughn is a senior planner at the Idaho Department of Labor.\u00a0 She says this program is aimed at helping kids stay in school who are most at risk of falling through the cracks. \u201cWe don\u2019t want them to fall out,\u201d Vaughn says.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s all a matter of giving them a vision and some hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vaughn says businesses or organizations who want to get involved will help teach students practical skills like how to write a resume and how to interview for a job.\u00a0 There will also be a possibility of job shadowing.<\/p>\n<p>The department has offered this same program for the last couple of years.\u00a0 Vaughn says during the 2009-2010 school year about 300 Idaho high school students participated.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more information about the program <a href=\"http:\/\/labor.idaho.gov\/pdf\/2012_youth_RFP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idaho Workforce Development Council is looking for businesses willing to provide basic job skills for low-income, at-risk high school students. The council has $1.1 million available for one-year grants.\u00a0 The money is from the federal Workforce Investment Act, and it must be matched by participating schools &#8212; either through cash or in-kind contributions like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[37,74],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6637,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588\/revisions\/6637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}