This notice announces and solicits nominees for a UI Benefit Financing Seminar to be held October 27-30, 2009, in Alexandria, Va.

To announce upcoming webinars that will be held the week of July 20, 2009, to provide information on implementing the guidance set forth in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-09-21, Implementing Guidance for the Reports on Use of Funds Pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

(1) To advise states of two important clarifications about Pell Grant eligibility requirements, (2) to encourage states to use procedures that inform Unemployment Insurance (UI) beneficiaries before enrollment whether training is considered by the state as UI Approved Training, and (3) to remind states that determinations made on UI Approved Training requests may be reported as “countable” non-monetary determinations for workload purposes.

To announce the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Interstate Benefits and Federal Programs Training Conference scheduled to be held September 8-10, 2009, in St. Petersburg, Florida and to encourage state workforce agency staff participation.

To announce and solicit nominations for two sessions of the Federal-State Unemployment Compensation (UC) Legislative Seminar

Notice to inform the Workforce Community regarding the availability of Financial Management Training Tutorials on the Workforce3One Web site.

As summer months approaches there is typically a decline in national Onboard Strength for Job Corps centers. Conversely, many YouthBuild programs are oversubscribed and have extensive waiting lists. The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to: a) provide information to YouthBuild programs of the education and training services offered by Job Corps; b) to describe benefits provide best practices of current partnerships and c) provide information to available tools designed to implement a partnership.

To announce the release and availability of the report titled Evaluation of the YouthBuild Youth Offender Grants.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of the report titled: The Benefits and Challenges of Registered Apprenticeship: The Sponsors’ Perspective

To inform the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) YouthBuild grant applicants and ETA’s YouthBuild grant program community that the Department will combine funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) and the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 YouthBuild appropriation to make awards to successful applicants from the current YouthBuild competition which closed January 15, 2009.