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    Housing Works is an innovative, bi-state collaboration between 3 Workforce Investment Boards and 4 Public Housing Agencies working together to help 480 public housing residents gain the life and employment skills necessary to attain self-sufficiency. The 3-year project ended in 2016 and was funded by a $5.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. Worksystems served as the project lead. var divElement = document.getElementById('viz1566412718597'); var vizElement = divElement.getElementsByTagName('object')[0]; if ( divElement.offsetWidth > 800 ) { vizElement.style.width='650px';...// Read more
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    The Future Ready Oregon initiative , passed by the Oregon Legislature in 2022, is a game-changing, once-in-a-generation investment in Oregon's workforce development system. It provides more than $200 million to help Oregonians access and receive the training, education, and support they need to transition into living-wage careers. And perhaps even more importantly, Future Ready Oregon (FRO) includes strategic and targeted investments designed to advance opportunities for people from historically underserved communities -- people of color, LGBTQIA+ Oregonians, and rural Oregonians. Worksystems...// Read more
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    Every Thursday at 2:00 pm, Worksystems will host a webinar to present information on the new Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program. This page contains resources that will be reviewed during the webinar. Staff will be on hand to answer your questions! Sign up for a webinar HERE . The Oregon Employment Department (OED) has begun taking applications for PUA (Pandemic Unemployment Assistance), an Unemployment Insurance program with expanded eligibility for those who are self employed, are not paid via a regular W-2, and/or who are otherwise not eligible for normal unemployment insurance...// Read more