This caps the age for summer qualifiers funded under ARRA at 24 years of age.
Qualifying age is from 14 to 24 under ARRA 2009 and 14-21 under WIA’s ordinary formula grant.
In preparation and prior to the qualified participants job placements in the private and public sectors, WIA requires all summer qualifiers to attend various work readiness workshops in customer service, telephone etiquette, work ethics, personal grooming and basic financial literacy.
These workshops are designed to prepare the youth participant of employer expectations prior to their entrance into the real working business environment in addition to preparing them for their future in becoming skilled and competitive workers in the local and global employment markets.
Employers are encouraged and appreciated for their effort in enhancing the summer participants work readiness skills during their employment period within their companies.
The workshops will be conducted on June 23-26 at the American Memorial Park’s Visitors Center from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 to 5 p.m.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration workshops and the opportunity for the participants and employers to meet one another are also the activities included during the week of June 23-26.
Rota and Tinian are scheduled for June 29 and June 30.
Summer applications will be made available by March 13 at Marianas, Kagman and Southern High Schools and at Hopwood and Chacha for junior high.
Applications for Rota and Tinian will be made available at the Office of Personnel Management in these municipalities.
WIA is already accepting applications from Saipan.
The Saipan case managers will be on Rota on March 20 and April 10 to receive summer applications and to conduct assessments.
Tinian is scheduled for March 27 and April 23.
In the interest of the participants safety, OSHA compliance, and in accordance with the U.S. Department of Labor’s “YouthRules! Initiative” which promotes positive and safe work experiences for young workers, WIA, as the administering agency for the USDOL ETA Youth funds, reserves the right not to fill some requested slots if the slots are considered non-conducive to the “YouthRules! Initiative.”
Based on the funding level for this year’s summer program and placement slots, WIA’s goal is to have 813 qualified summer participants including those from Rota and Tinian.
WIA wishes to express its utmost appreciation to all the participating employers for their willingness and support in becoming WIA’s partner again for this year’s summer program.
Applicants are encouraged to ensure completeness of the application and submission of all required documentations.
Incomplete applications will not be certified by WIA.
Official deadline for all summer applications submission to WIA is April 30, 4:30 p.m.
Applicants will be qualified based on priority index ranking, barriers and income not by the application receipt date or first come first serve basis.
The participants will officially report to work in two different schedules for a period of four weeks on July 6-31 for the first qualifiers and Aug. 3-28 for the second qualifiers.
For inquiries, contact WIA at 664-1708/1757, fax 664-1710 or e-mail gov.wia@pticom.com.
