Social Services
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services: Prevention, Retention & Contingency Program
Organization Name: Ohio Department of Job & Family Services/OhioMeansJobs
Organization website: https://jfs.ohio.gov/ and http://jfs.ohio.gov/owd/CCMEP/index.stm
Organization phone number: 740-833-2300
Contact Name: Carolyn Stout, OhioMeansJobs Delaware County Program Supervisor
Phone: 740-833-2313
Email: carolyn.stout@jfs.ohio.gov
Name of program: Prevention, Retention & Contingency Program
Description of program: The Prevention, Retention, Contingency (PRC) program is a special category of assistance offered by the Delaware County Department of Job and Family Services. It is designed to help people overcome immediate barriers to achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency and personal responsibility, thereby preventing the need for ongoing public assistance. PRC is meant to assist a family through a presenting crisis and not to maintain a family when long term financial expenses exceed the ability of the family to meet those obligations. The main objectives of provide PRC assistance are to prevent loss of paid employment or eliminate a
barrier in securing employment; to provide temporary assistance when the retention of a job is in jeopardy due to an unexpected crisis; and to meet a presenting contingency.
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services: Rapid Response and Layoff Aversion Program
Organization Name: Ohio Department of Job & Family Services/OhioMeansJobs
Organization website: https://jfs.ohio.gov/owd/WorkforceProf/OJT.stm and http://jfs.ohio.gov/owd/WorkforceProf/RapidResponse-home.stm
Organization phone number: 740-833-2300
Contact Name: Carolyn Stout, OhioMeansJobs Delaware County Program Supervisor
Phone: 740-833-2313
Email: carolyn.stout@jfs.ohio.gov
Name of program: Rapid Response and Layoff Aversion Program
Description of program: Rapid Response (RR) is funded by the U.S. Department of Labor under the Dislocated Worker Program of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). RR is dedicated to averting layoffs and reemployment after layoffs. We serve two customers: employers and their workforce. We achieve our goals by offering layoff aversion and early intervention services to employers who are facing downsizing or layoff, as well as reemployment solutions to employers and their workforce who have been impacted by permanent layoff or closure. Some of our services may include customized workshops, training, up-skilling, retooling, certifications or skill matching.
Proactive and Reactive Rapid Response
Mass Layoff and Closure assistance is reactive in nature and can help minimize disruptions associated with job loss and get workers back to work as quickly as possible.
Layoff Aversion assistance is proactive in nature and can help employers by training or up-skilling their current workforce which may avert a layoff or closure.
Employers
We can help you avoid future layoffs, access training programs for your employees, find skilled potential employees, and learn more about employment rights and regulations. Events such as mass layoffs and closures are usually communicated through the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. WARN provides protection to workers, their families and communities by requiring employers provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of covered plant closings and mass layoffs.
Should I file a WARN? (flowchart)
Process steps of a layoff
Current WARN information can be found at our WARN home page.
SharedWork Ohio is a voluntary layoff aversion program. Click the below links for additional information.
Frequently Asked Questions (Fact Sheet)
Participating Employee Information Sheet
Guide for Participating Employers and Employees
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
Organization Name: Ohio Department of Job & Family Services/OhioMeansJobs
Organization website: https://jfs.ohio.gov/owd/WorkforceProf/OJT.stm and https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/wioa/about
Organization phone number: 740-833-2300
Contact Name: Carolyn Stout, OhioMeansJobs Delaware County Program Supervisor
Phone: 740-833-2313
Email: carolyn.stout@jfs.ohio.gov
Name of program: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
Description of program:
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) was signed into law on July 22, 2014. WIOA is designed to help job seekers access employment, education, training, and support services to succeed in the labor market and to match employers with the skilled workers they need to compete in the global economy. Congress passed the Act by a wide bipartisan majority; it is the first legislative reform of the public workforce system in 15 years.
WIOA supersedes the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and amends the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, the Wagner-Peyser Act, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
WIOA Programs
WIOA brings together, in strategic coordination, the core programs of Federal investment in skill development:
- Employment and training services for adults, dislocated workers, and youth and Wagner-Peyser employment services administered by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) through formula grants to states; and
- Adult education and family literacy programs as well as State Vocational Rehabilitation Services programs that assist eligible individuals with disabilities in obtaining employment; both core programs are administered by the U.S. Department of Education (ED).
WIOA also authorizes programs for specific vulnerable populations, including the Job Corps, YouthBuild, Indian and Native Americans, and Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker programs as well as evaluation and multistate projects administered by DOL. In addition, WIOA authorizes other programs administered by ED and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
United Way of Delaware County: Strengthening Families
Organization Name: United Way of Delaware County
Organization website: https://www.liveuniteddelawarecounty.org
Organization phone number: 614-436-8929
Contact Name: Kelsey Fox, Strengthening Families Director
Phone: 740-201-3206
Email: kfox@uwaydelaware.org
Name of program: Strengthening Families
Description of your program: Strengthening Families of Delaware County offer a variety of services to increase behavioral, social and emotional development opportunities for children birth through five years old and provides afterschool activities and programming for middle school students. Read more in the Strategic Action Plan
Programming includes:
- Family & Community Programming
- Speech & Hearing Center
- Delaware County Juvenile Court Assessment Center
- Family and Children First Council:
- Services for youth 0-21 years old
- Referrals to needed community resources
- Family-centered services and funds for qualified families
- Family and Civic Engagement
- Family Resource Center
- Utility assistance
- PACER Food Pantry
- Delaware County diaper Bank
- Grace Clinic Delaware
- A mini clinic to evaluate, diagnose and treat non-emergency needs
- Grandparent Cafes
- Assistance for grandparents raising grandchildren
- Syntero Counseling
- Early Childhood Education
- Middle School Student Programming
- Afterschool Teen Room Drop-in
- Cooking Matters
- STEMpossible Club
- Yoga
- Anime Club
- Book Club
- Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Syntero Counseling
- Supplies for Scholars