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• Part-time Jobs: 360 • Full-time Jobs: 915 • Expenditures: $452,262 (Approximately $145 per participant)

Danville Community College - The SCALE UP Program is designed to provide short term, in- demand, industry credentials, interpersonal skills training, and employment search support to ameliorate regional unemployment and underemployment. • Participants: 224 • Participated in Job Skills Training: 224 • Entered Employment: 149 • Starting Hourly Wage: $12.21 • Jobs with Benefits: 52 • Part-time Jobs: 54 • Full-time Jobs: 95 • Jobs in a Career Pathway: 56 • Expenditures: $371,007

Learn to Earn, Inc. - Through its Career Transition Skills Program, Learn to Earn utilizes a partnership network of businesses, education and training providers, and workforce services to decrease the number of low-income individuals who are experiencing problems in finding employment due to multiple barriers. • Participants: 157 • Entered Employment: 121 • Starting Hourly Wage: $14.66 • Jobs with Benefits: 56 • Part-time Jobs: 61 • Full-time Jobs: 60 • Jobs in a Career Pathway: 100 • Expenditures: $329,146

Melwood Horticultural Training Center, Inc. – This program expands services to TANF recipients with significant barriers to employment residing in Arlington County and the City of Alexandria. The program targets participants with long-term unemployment, poor job retention, and those with 6 months or less remaining before their employment benefits will end and works with these individuals to attain placement in livable wage employment. • Participants: 136 • Entered Employment: 77