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Overview of Maryland RISE

Overview of Maryland RISE. Vision: Meet people where they are and help them to get where they want to go. Invest in people and change lives Objectives: Provide a continuum of employment services and training opportunities. Enhance and expand key partnerships.

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Overview of Maryland RISE

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  1. Overview of Maryland RISE

  2. Vision: • Meet people where they are and help them to get where they want to go. • Invest in people and change lives Objectives: • Provide a continuum of employment services and training opportunities. • Enhance and expand key partnerships. • Leverage and coordinate funding streams. Customers: • TANF heads of household • Foster care and TANF youth • Non-custodial parents (i.e. fatherhood)

  3. DHR Maryland RISE Feeds into the Governor’s Skills2Compete - Maryland Agenda Months 1-6 Months 7-12 Months 13-18 Career Employment TANF Heads of Household ASSESSMENT Workforce Trng Tracks Workforce Trng Tracks DHR Customers Non-Custodial Parents Workforce Training Tracks Foster Youth TANF Youth** Pre-employment Skills Enhancement Skills 2 Compete training and certification Sector Related Work Experience infrastructure/green/energy, healthcare, manufacturing, aerospace; construction, education, retail, financial/insurance, hospitality/tourism, information technology, transportation/warehousing Pre - Employment Paid Internship/Apprenticeship Unsubsidized Sector Employment • Food Stamps • Medicaid • Childcare • Transportation Assistance* • Full Transition • Food Stamps (5 mos) • Medicaid (12 mos) • Childcare (6 mos – based on income) • Transportation Assistance* DHR Benefits • DHR Jobs Skills Enhancement Funds • DHR TANF Funds (Former Foster Care Youth) • DLLR Incumbent Worker Funds • DHR sector-specific WEX opportunities • DHR WEX/Paid Internships Funding Sources *Transportation assistance varies by local department ** Transitioning foster care youth and youth of TANF households

  4. HB MD RISE Employment Services and Training • Assessment • Remediation • Skills training in targeted sectors identified by the • Governor’s Workforce Investment Board • Paid Internships • Unsubsidized Employment

  5. HB Online Work Readiness Assessment • Assesses employment barriers, work skills and work readiness • Informs decisions regarding placement into work activities • Available online at no cost • Endorsed by the federal government • Piloted in a few local departments in Maryland • For more information regarding OWRA and to download the tool, please visit http://peerta.acf.hhs.gov/tanftc/index.cfm

  6. HB Skills Training and Paid Internships - Leveraging Opportunities • Examples of partnerships for targeted populations: • Open Society Institute Baltimore - DHR Adult Workforce Development Partnership (ex-offenders) – OSI - Baltimore • Baltimore Ex-Offender Re-entry Employment Program • (ex-offenders) – Abell Foundation

  7. HB Skills Training and Paid Internships • Examples of sector-specific partnerships: • Healthcare • Maryland Center for Arts and Technology (Baltimore City) • Pharmacy • CVS/pharmacy (Baltimore and Prince George’s Counties and Baltimore City)

  8. HB Skills Training and Paid Internships • Sector-Specific Partnerships in “Green” Jobs: • HB 268 – Green Jobs Legislation • http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/chapters_noln/Ch_385_hb0268E.pdf • Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant • Private sector energy efficiency activities

  9. Paid internships: Offer an hourly wage of at least $10, benefits and a career ladder. Offer paid interns same wage as employees in a comparable position. Provide opportunity for paid interns to transition to unsubsidized employment after satisfactory completion of the paid internship. Are available to customers within the MD RISE target groups Entail expenditures to the employer for payment of unemployment insurance. Paid Internship Funds 9

  10. How can I explore paid internship opportunities?: Contact your local department or DHR Central to provide a profile reflecting the proposed duties and the eligibility requirements Interview and select candidates based on referrals from the local department Enter into a hiring agreement with the local department Paid Internship Funds 10

  11. Expected Outcomes For dollars invested, customers will receive: • Full array of services • Skills training in sectors where there are viable employment opportunities • Paid internships/apprenticeships • Linkages to permanent competitive wage jobs - Increased wage growth

  12. For more information, please contact: Scott Adams 410 767 3964 sadams6@dhr.state.md.us or visit http://www.dhr.state.md.us/s2c/MDRises.php

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