Life skills, work skills, learn and earn

The Workforce Investment Agency has begun preparations for the upcoming 2014 Summer Youth Employment and Training Program.

Applications will be made available beginning April 28, 2014, and can be downloaded at http://www.wia.gov.mp. Application copies will also be delivered to Hopwood Junior High School, Marianas High School, Saipan Southern High School, Kagman Junior High School, Kagman High School, and Tinian and Rota Labor Offices. WIA personnel will be traveling to Rota and Tinian to receive the summer applications.

Summer employment qualifications are not based on the application submission date but on priority index ranking based on age, income, federal statutory, and state recognized applicant barriers and program rules and regulations. The higher the PIR, the more qualified the individual will be under WIA’s youth funding program.

WIA is providing sufficient time for parents and applicants to gather all the required documents, read, follow instructions, and answer the application clearly and legibly, as well as affix all required signatures on the applications. This year’s summer program is expected to qualify CNMI-wide about 300 youth participants working for a period of four weeks from July 7, 2014, to Aug. 1, 2014 (first phase) and Aug. 4 to Aug. 29, 2014, (second phase, Saipan only) should placement slots prove insufficient during the first phase. Due to limited funding and in the interest of accommodating others that are wait-listed, WIA reserves the right to replace trainees for any reason as soon as their slots become available and will not allow interchanging of phase schedules for trainees that can’t hold their initial placement schedule. If additional funding is realized then more qualifying youths will be given the opportunity to participate in the program and will be published accordingly.

Names and schedules will be published the week of June 23, 2014, in the local papers and WIA’s website, www.wia.gov.mp. Work readiness workshops are scheduled the week of July 1, 2014. All summer qualifiers are required to attend the workshops.

Application deadline for Tinian and Rota will be the week of May 19, 2014 (dates will be indicated on the SYETP applications) and May 30, 2014 (Saipan). Incomplete applications will not be accepted nor certified. (PR)