Grants in NY_WORKFORCE

Office of Addiction Services and Supports

Vocational rehabilitation is a process that prepares people for employment by helping them choose a vocational role and function that is consistent with their abilities, achievements, interests, and functioning capacity. The specific goals of a vocational rehabilitation program vary with the needs of the target population. The process includes the following services: vocational testing, assessment, counseling, pre-vocational activities, training, educational services, life skills/employability referrals, job referrals and placement, and post-placement counseling and follow-up. Programs provide these vocational rehabilitation services directly or by referring the client to an appropriate resource.

Office of Addiction Services and Supports

The goal of this project is to create a workforce pipeline of multi-disciplinary professionals who have interdisciplinary training and SUD education and work experience in one or all the following: prevention, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction settings.

Office of Addiction Services and Supports

Vocational rehabilitation is a process that prepares people for employment by helping them choose a vocational role and function that is consistent with their abilities, achievements, interests, and functioning capacity. The specific goals of a vocational rehabilitation program vary with the needs of the target population. The process includes the following services: vocational testing, assessment, counseling, pre-vocational activities, training, educational services, life skills/employability referrals, job referrals and placement, and post-placement counseling and follow-up. Programs provide these vocational rehabilitation services directly or by referring the client to an appropriate resource.

Office for People With Developmental Disabilities

Supported employment provides appropriate staff and/or material supports for a person obtaining or being maintained in a compensated employment setting in accordance with individual capabilities, choices, and employment goals. Provided in a variety of settings, particularly work sites in which those without disabilities are employed.

Empire State Development

The Pay for Performance Operating Grant Program supports the operational resource needs of workforce training providers offering specialized job training in targeted, high-demand industries. Applicants can apply for funding to be used for a variety of programmatic expenses related to a new program or expansion of an existing program, such as curricula development, instruction and instructional materials, technology, marketing, and/or trainee supports, etc.

Office for People With Developmental Disabilities

Prevocational services prepare an individual for employment, but are not job-task oriented. The purpose of the service is habilitative rather than teaching a specific job task skill. Services are provided to individuals not expected to join the general work force within one year (excluding supported employment programs and pathway to employment.)

Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA)

Funded through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant for services and expenses of a Youth Employment Program (YEP). The program was established to support a reduction in gun involved violence as part of the New York State Gun Involved Violence Elimination (GIVE) Initiative and will operate in localities in receipt of GIVE funding, as provided by the Division of Criminal Justice Services. The YEP provides for year-round employment and allowable activities and services include: work subsidies for youth; education and training; and supportive services such as transportation.

Empire State Development

The Workforce Development Capital Grant Program supports the capital needs of workforce training providers that seek to enhance or expand their offerings. The Program is open to training programs offering industry-recognized credentials and certificates in high-demand-fields by helping trainers make capital investments crucial to industry-driven workforce training.

Office for People With Developmental Disabilities

This training is directly delivered to people with I/DD to increase specific skills needed for employment. There is a gap in Medicaid Waiver services, prevocational services can only teach work-related, non-task specific skills. CSVT was developed to address this gap to teach people task specific skills related to specific industries to meet today's workforce and business labor needs.

NYS Office of Children and Family Services

Child care provider professional development.

Office of Addiction Services and Supports

The goal of funding the field placement/supervised internship component of the APSP is to provide students who are enrolled in either one of the CASAC credential programs, the CRPA certificate program, or both types of programs with practical, experiential learning to understand and experience the scope of practice in the profession they are entering.

NYS Office of Children and Family Services

To provide job training and placement for NYS's Blind citizens.