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The Regional Employment and Training
Achievement Initiative (RETAIN) began in January 1999 with
a $4.2 million grant from the United States Department of Labor.
IAJVS and six member agencies developed a national welfare-to-work
service delivery model for the hard-to-employ. The primary
goals of the program were to 1) develop effective strategies
to help the hard-to-employ find and keep jobs that will
lead toward self-sufficiency; 2) build the capacity of
six local sites to serve public assistance recipients;
and 3) contribute to the national knowledge base of methods
and tools for serving populations with multiple barriers
for widespread national dissemination.
The six IAJVS affiliate agencies that participated in
this initiative are:
Read more about the challenges and
successes of the IAJVS comprehensive national welfare-to-work
program RETAIN — the Regional Employment and Training
Achievement Initiative — in the recently published:
Building Blocks: A Best Practices Report on a National Welfare-to-Work
Program. To receive a free copy of the best practices report,
please Contact Us and
include your name and mailing address.
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