Since the Department announced yesterday that 25 states would receive $26.5 million to create or enhance the Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment (REA) Initiative to help reemploy Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants, I decided to resurrect some of the learnings (trust me, there's more if you come calling for it!) from the Recovery Forums and the Baltimore Reemployment Summit. Why forge ahead John Wayne style, when you have a reemployment community to help?

Here are some links:

North Dakota's REA Program

Nevada's Initiative

Nevada's Handout 1

Nevada's Handout 2

New York's Strategy

Maine's Strategy

Good luck with your REAs and feel free to reach out or extend a hand to your fellow REA grantees!