History
Prior to moving into the workNet DuPage Career Center in 2007, the DuPage County Workforce Development Division, IDES, COD, and PAEP all were located here.
What is the IETC (Illinois Employment & Training Center)?
The full name of the legislation signed into law by President Obama in 2014
What is the Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act?
ITA
What is an Individual Training Account?
This is the primary grant you are eligible for if you are eligible for or receiving unemployment insurance benefits.
What is 1D?
This labor matching system run by IDES is used by both job seekers and businesses.
What is Illinois JobLink?
These three rooms were replaced by new cubicles and offices by Sue Clark in late 2016.
What are the File Room, Training Room (or Classroom), and Computer Lab?
These are the two types of customers that WIOA focuses on serving.
Who are Job Seekers and Businesses?
IWDS
What is the Illinois Workforce Development System?
This is the funding cap for Trade Act eligible clients.
What is unlimited?
In order to begin working with Parents Alliance Employment Project, a client must be first be connected to this partner agency.
What is Department of Rehabilitation Services (DRS)?
Before our local funding cap for vouchers was $10,000, it was this amount.
What is $7,000?
(Double points if you know what is was prior to $7,000)
These are the three primary grants associated with Title I funding.
What are Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth?
TAA
What is Trade Adjustment Assistance?
This individual would be someone who is returning to the workforce from an extended absence due to raising children and running a household, and who is no longer supported by the income of a family member.
Who is a Displaced Homemaker?
This program allows students to work toward high school equivalency (or boost basic skills in general) while also studying toward an occupational certificate.
What is the ICAPS program?
(Double points if you know what the acronym stands for)
The number of main federal workforce development programs since 1962
What is five?
(Double points if you can name all five)
The total number of Local Workforce Areas in the State of Illinois
What is 22?
WARN
What is Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification?
This is the term used when a client receives funding but is later determined to have been ineligible (and which no Director ever wants to hear.)
What is a disallowed cost?
This economic development engine focuses on attracting new businesses to DuPage and retaining those that are already here.
What is Choose DuPage?
The "O" in Susan O. Clark stands for this.
What is Olhava?
What is the official public law number of the Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act?
What is 113-128?
IWP
What is the Illinois Workforce Partnership?
This dollar amount is the 1A eligibility threshold for a household of 1.
What is $12,140?
This type of funding, administered by College of DuPage among other places, is geared toward the improvement of secondary and post-secondary career and technical education programs.
What is Perkins?