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MDCD Announces Awarding of WIA-NEG Funding to Michigan Works! Agencies for TAA & NAFTA-TAA Programs

Contact: Jeannie Vogel (517) 241-0592
Agency: Career, Education & Workforce Programs

September 3, 2003

The Michigan Department of Career Development (MDCD) today announced the award of $1,159,726 in Workforce Investment Act–National Emergency Grant (WIA-NEG) funding for Trade Adjustment Assistance and North American Free Trade Agreement–Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA & NAFTA-TAA) programs to 12 Michigan Works! agencies. The funding will be used to provide training, job search assistance, and relocation assistance to workers whose jobs were determined by the U.S. Department of Labor to have been lost due to foreign competition.

The MDCD’s Workforce Transition Section administers the Trade Act programs for the U.S. Department of Labor.

The specific WIA-NEG awards to each of the 12 Michigan Works! agencies are as follows:

Michigan Works! Agency		Amount
Area Community Service Employment and Training Council		$ 260,546
Michigan Works! Berrien-Cass-Van Buren		$ 26,035
Calhoun Intermediate School District		$ 62,232
Capital Area Michigan Works!		$ 88,651
Career Alliance, Inc.		$ 125,742
Livingston County Michigan Works!		$ 28,052
Macomb-St. Clair Workforce Development Board, Inc.		$ 29,199
Northeast Michigan Consortium		$ 84,121
Ottawa County Michigan Works!/Community Action Agency		$ 126,924
Michigan Works! Region 7B Employment and Training Consortium		$ 101,959
Southeast Michigan Community Alliance (SEMCA) Michigan Works!		$ 187,765
Michigan Works! West Central		$ 38,500

Total		$1,159,726

The Michigan Department of Career Development is the state government agency charged with providing the skilled workforce Michigan needs to enhance and maintain its economy. To this end, the state’s career and training development agency is working with employers, K-12 schools, community colleges, and local Workforce Development Boards to develop a comprehensive career development system. For more information about the Michigan Department of Career Development, visit the department’s web site at www.michigan.gov/mdcd or call 1-866-MY-GOALS.