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ADECA

June 25, 2014
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Bentley awards funding for job assistance for former IP workers
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Gov. Robert Bentley has awarded $823,755 to assist up to 1,100 former employees of International Paper Co.’s Courtland mill in north Alabama to obtain new jobs.

Alabama applied for a special National Emergency Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to enable the state to boost assistance at Alabama Career Center offices in Sheffield and Decatur to help the former mill employees secure new jobs. 

International Paper closed the Lawrence County paper mill in early 2014 affecting plant workers living in seven Alabama counties and one Tennessee county.

 “Anyone who has been laid off from a job, particularly a job they have held for a decade or more, knows the hardship faced by their families and their communities,” Bentley said. “We remain committed to provide whatever resources possible to assist former International Paper employees to obtain new jobs and resume normal lives.”

The centers will provide former employees with job search and resume assistance, assessment and career counseling, relocation guidance, training referrals, workshop services and access to computers and the Internet.

Local career centers have been authorized to use funds from another federal program to secure training for the dislocated workers to venture into other high-demand occupations and fields including automobile manufacturing, avionics, computer sciences and health care.  

The Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs is managing the grant. ADECA administers numerous programs supporting law enforcement and traffic safety, economic development, energy conservation, workforce development, water resource management and recreation.

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Contact Jim Plott or Larry Childers


For more information, visit:  http://www.adeca.alabama.gov/