Connecting 400 students to school website from home

[Mary Furnas]

Check out the funding from Workforce Investment Act.  In most communities 
it is Workforce Development - Department of Labor.  Remember the old Job 
Training Partnership Programs (JTPA) that went through a sunset a few 
years ago?  It was replaced by WIA.  Workforce Development has funding for 
youth programs and services.  If the youth are in foster care, or 
emancipated (youth ages 18-23 in most states) they may be eligible for 
Chafee Education and Training Voucher dollars.  Each State is sharing in 
40 million in these ETV dollars.  Each state also receives Chafee Foster 
Care Independence funds which may be used to assist youth with education 
and training also and serves a population of foster care youth ages 14 and 
over in most states (14-21).  I think personally that we need to do a 
better job of "braiding" funding sources - using all the funding streams 
available to us to serve youth, based on the youth's eligibility for each 
of these sources.  Although we can not "pool or commingle" funds we can 
BRAID them to strength our programs.  Good Luck.

Mary Furnas
Development Services Manager
AIM Institute
mfurnas at nebraska.org
Office:   402-345-5025 ext. 154
Cell:      402-770-8967

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