Alphabet Soup
This four-letter acronym stands for the main federal law that funds our workforce development programs.
What is WIOA? (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act)
The Lower Savannah Workforce Development Area serves this specific total number of South Carolina counties.
What is 6? (Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, and Orangeburg).
While the Aiken and Orangeburg centers are open Monday through Friday, this specific SC Works center in our region is closed to the public on Fridays.
What is the Barnwell Center? (Open Monday through Thursday).
A veteran walks into the Aiken, Barnwell, or Orangeburg center. By federal law, this is the strict policy our front-line staff must follow to serve them first.
What is Priority of Service?
Located right in Bamberg County, this free federal residential and partner training program provides young adults aged 16 through 24 with housing, academic education, and hands-on technical trade skills.
What is the Bamberg Job Corps Center?
This program helps workers who lost their jobs specifically due to foreign trade and competition.
What is TAA? (Trade Adjustment Assistance)
These are the three cities where our area's brick-and-mortar SC Works centers are physically open to the public.
What are Aiken, Barnwell, and Orangeburg?
To ensure every visitor gets counted and routed correctly, this is the specific software or digital sign-in system customers use immediately upon walking into a Lower Savannah center.
What is VOS Greeter?
For job seekers experiencing vision loss, this core partner agency provides specialized assistive technology and co-locates staff at our physical centers.
What is the South Carolina Commission for the Blind? (SCCB)
This specific employer-focused program lets SC Works partner directly with local businesses to hire a job seeker immediately and reimburse the company for up to 75% or more of their training wages.
What is On-the-Job Training? (or OJT)
This mandatory program helps Unemployment Insurance claimants get back to work faster through targeted reemployment services.
What is RESEA? (Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment)
This specific individual serves as the current Workforce Development Administrator for the Lower Savannah Council of Governments team.
Who is André Anderson?
Under regular South Carolina state rules, this is the maximum number of weeks an active job seeker can typically draw regular state unemployment insurance benefits.
What is 20 weeks?
A WIOA client living in rural Bamberg County gets a job in Aiken but has no money for gas for the first two weeks. This specific category of WIOA financial assistance can cover their travel costs.
What are Supportive Services?
This specific designated area inside every physical SC Works center provides job seekers with free public access to computers, high-speed internet, printers, and copiers to work on resumes and job applications.
What is the Resource Room?
This term refers to the local boards that set the strategy and budget for workforce services in each region.
What is a LWDB? (Local Workforce Development Board)
Because our area has many rural spots, this specific 10-workstation mobile asset travels to places like Denmark and the Bamberg Civic Center to bring resources right to the community.
What is the SC Works Mobile Unit?
If you were dealing with a disturbance and needed a team member to phone law enforcement.
What is Mr Red?
A Spanish-speaking client needs an integrated training program. SC Works staff will partner with this specific education entity to provide English as a Second Language (ESL) classes alongside their technical training.
What is Adult Education?
When a local participant has a criminal background or an uneven work history, SC DEW use this specific free federal tax incentive program to convince local employers to take a chance on hiring them.
What is the Work Opportunity Tax Credit? (or WOTC)
This specific system is what South Carolina uses to track participant data and case management across programs.
What is SCWOS? (South Carolina Workforce Online System)
Out of the six counties served in our local workforce area, this specific county boasts the highest population and density by a wide margin.
What is Aiken County?
If a local employer in Aiken or Orangeburg needs to upskill their current staff to keep the business competitive and prevent layoffs, they would apply for this specific type of regional WIOA funding.
What is Incumbent Worker Training? (IWT)
An active SNAP recipient tells you they want a career change but struggle heavily with a physical or mental health barrier. You would coordinate their services with this specific rehabilitation partner.
What is the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department? (SCVRD / Voc Rehab)
Under federal law, this specific physical location serves as the official "umbrella" where all of these diverse partner agencies must legally share space and resources under one roof.
What is an SC Works Comprehensive Center? (or American Job Center)