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• Entered Employment: 50 • Starting Hourly Wage: $12.54 • Jobs with Benefits: 18 • Part-time Jobs: 16 • Full-time Jobs: 34 • Expenditures: $56,786

Job Assistance Center, Inc. - Working with local departments of social services on the Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck, services will be offered to prepare participants for entry into employment with the prospect of maintaining employment that can lead to a career path. Comprehensive assessments, work readiness and life skills training, occupational training and career advancement, job placement and enhanced job retention services are available to eligible clients. • Participants: 75 • Entered Employment: 44 • Starting Hourly Wage: $13.10 • Jobs with Benefits: 9 • Part-time Jobs: 20 • Full-time Jobs: 24 • Expenditures: $294,361

Literary Council of Northern Virginia (LCNV) - Through its Destination Workforce Program, the LCNV will work with participants in Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria, and Falls Church to obtain English language literacy and job skills to enter or advance in the workplace. Targeted, intensive, and customized workforce readiness instruction is offered to help participants get on a fast track to employment. • Participants: 137 • Entered Employment: 18 • Starting Hourly Wage: $11.00 • Jobs with Benefits: 5 • Part-time Jobs: 9 • Full-time Jobs: 9 • Expenditures: $104,006

Melwood Horticultural Training Center, Inc. - In cooperation with the Virginia Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), local departments of social services and other groups, this project will provide employment services to Prince William County’s eligible