Our Rapid Response team provides customer-focused services to both dislocated workers and employers at no-cost, ensuring immediate access to services for affected workers to expedite reentry into the workforce. Our team also provides early intervention assistance to workers to avert or minimize the economic disruption of a mass job dislocation event.
Employer Benefits
Rapid Response activities provide benefits tailored to your company and industry. Advantages of Rapid Response services include:
- Reemployment Assistance Insurance costs as workers are re-employed more quickly
- Up-skilling employees to fill increasingly complex or skilled positions internally
- Higher productivity, better worker education, cross-training, morale, and lower absenteeism
- Positive community impact and public image
Dislocated Worker Program
The Rapid Response Program is a prelude to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Dislocated Worker Program. The WIOA Dislocated Worker Program provides transitional services designed to assist in the early stages of a layoff. These services are offered in recognition that Dislocated Workers have various levels of need. These services include funding for educational programs, childcare, funding for eligible training providers AND MORE!