The efforts of former Rural Entrepreneur Assistance Program (REAP) Women's Business Center Director Glennis McClure, REAP staff, and partners have ensured that the Center's REAP Women's Business Center is continuing on.

The U.S. Small Business Administration awarded REAP the highest tier of funding to continue providing training and counseling to entrepreneurs in rural Nebraska. Funding is based on performance, and each Women's Business Center across the country is compared to...

The Federal Youth Coordination Act (FYCA) was introduced in the 109th Congress to implement recommendations from the 2003 White House Task Force for Disadvantaged Youth, which found that federal youth programs are administered across 12 departments and agencies with little communication or coordination among them.

By Joni Thomas, Nebraska Department Of Health And Human Services

Ticket to Work is about choices.

Just ask any one of the 43,000 Nebraskans with disabilities who have received a "ticket" in the mail during the past year. Doors have been opened, barriers have been removed and opportunities have been made available for people to seek counsel on employment.

Some have used their ticket to find a job.

People With Disabilities And Employers Both Benefiting From Program

OMAHA (Neb.) - Nebraska Health and Human Services System (NEDHHSS) officials say that Nebraska employers and people with disabilities both have responded well to a federal program called Ticket to Work. According to Joni Thomas, Medicaid Infrastructure/Real Choice Grant Coordinator for NEDHHSS, a media communications campaign is helping people with disabilities find new employment opportunities with...