North American Indian Center of Boston Sample Clauses

North American Indian Center of Boston. The North American Indian Center of Boston Inc. (NAICOB) will contribute to the local service delivery strategies in the Boston workforce development area NAICOB will provide information regarding services and will contribute participant outreach and recruitment to eligible consumers. NAICOB WIOA staff will develop individual employment and educational plans and services to assist consumers in establishing goals towards competitive integrated employment and training plans and support services. As a priority population NAICOB requests the designation of the WIOA Employment and Training Strategic Plan for adults starting July 1, 2018. This grant will allow NAICOB to maintain their services to the Massachusetts Indian and Native American population in the following Massachusetts counties: Berkshire, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Worcester Counties. The North American Indian Center of Boston Inc. (NAICOB) has successfully operated JTPA and WIA Employment and Training Programs since July 1, 1993. The mission statement of NAICOB is to promote greater self-determination, socio-economic self-sufficiency, spiritual enhancement, intercultural understanding and other forms of empowerment for the North American Indian Intertribal community and to assist North American Indians in obtaining an improved quality of life by providing health connections, job training, education, housing, and other related programs and social services. The Plan of the North American Indian Center (NAICOB) WIOA Department of Boston will incorporate the principles of the Department of Labor’s comprehensive “Career Pathways” approach. WIOA’s plan is to enable Native individuals to become economically self-sufficient and move into the middle class through education and employment, which will enable participants to provide a better life for their families and strengthen Native communities.  Participant Outreach and Recruitment  Assessment and Enrollment  Education and Training (classroom and non-classroom related);  Job Placement and Employment; and  Individual Case Management and Follow-Up Support Services to Enhance Participant Hiring and Retention. The NAICOB WIOA Employment and Training Department provides services, which will enable our low- income, dislocated participants to become competitive in an extremely focused job market of aptitudes and abilities, a challenge for the urban Indian community located in Boston and surrounding counties of Mas...