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Career T.E.A.M. AWARDED JOBS CORPS CONTRACT IN WESTERN NEW YORK
Buffalo, New York, June 27, 2001- Career T.E.A.M., a national leader in the welfare to work industry announced today that it had been granted its first Jobs Corps contract. Focusing on outreach and recruitment with sites in Buffalo, Syracuse and Rochester, the company will oversee a maximum 5-year contract worth up to $1.75M.
Job Corps is a national residential training and employment program administered by the Department of Labor (DOL) to address the multiple barriers to employment faced by disadvantaged youth throughout the United States. Job Corps was originally established by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and is currently provided for under Title I-C of the Workforce Investment Act. Private companies operate each of the more than 118 Job Corps campuses nationwide.
Responding to an RFP which sought submissions as part of the Jobs Corps small business set aside program, Career T.E.A.M. partnered with industry respected Resource Consultants, Inc. (RCI) to co-author the highly competitive winning bid. Based in Vienna, Virginia with over 2,000 employees and over $100M in revenues, RCI is a recognized leader in the professional services industry and operates multiple Jobs Corps projects.
According to Career T.E.A.M., CEO, Christopher Kuselias, "this strategic partnership with RCI capitalizes on our respective strengths and positions our organization for additional Jobs Corps projects in the future; including a new site planned in our home state, Connecticut (Hartford). It is my belief that our proven track record in managing large government contracts to include recruitment, motivation and placement of challenged populations was the deciding factor in receiving this prestigious grant."
About Career T.E.A.M.
Founded in 1995, Career T.E.A.M. is a nationally recognized leader of self-sufficiency training. Through its integrated service delivery model, Career T.E.A.M. has successfully trained and employed over 4,000 former welfare recipients while achieving a job placement and retention rate of over 70%. This stellar performance record has resulted in numerous honors and commendations including recognition as one of the nation’s Top 10 welfare to work intermediaries by the National Welfare to Work Partnership and a recipient of the 1999 US Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Enterprise Award. Career T.E.A.M. has been profiled in several national media sources including CNN, INC Magazine, The Employment and Training Reporter and The National Alliance of Business Work America. As a service provider, one stop operator and corporate training entity, Career T.E.A.M. continues to produce superior results.
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