Workforce Investment System Goal

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Workforce Investment System Goal
To increase the employment, retention, and
earnings of participants and increase the
occupational skill attainment by participants
resulting in the improvement of the quality of
the workforce, reduction in welfare dependency,
and enhancement of the productivity and
competitiveness of the Nation.
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Workforce Investment Act Structure

• Title I Workforce Investment Systems
• Title II Adult Education Literacy
• Title III Workforce Investment Related
  Activities
• Title IV Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998
• Title V General Provisions

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WIAs Seven Basic Principles

• Streamline Services
• Empower individuals by using Workforce Investment
  Accounts (ITAs)
• Provide Universal Access for Core Services
• Increase Accountability
• Ensure WIA Boards the private sector a strong
  role
• Facilitate State Local Flexibility
• Improve Youth Programs

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Required One-Stop Partners

• Partners Incorporated Within DWS
• WIA Adult, Dislocated Worker, Youth Activities
• Employment Services (Wagner-Peyser)
• Unemployment Insurance
• Welfare-to-Work
• Trade Adjustment Assistance
• NAFTA-TAA
• Veterans Employment Training Programs
• Migrant Season Farm Work Programs

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Required One-Stop Partners (cont.)

• Other Required Services / Partners
• Vocational Rehabilitation under WIA
• Community Services Block Grant
• HUD-Administered Employment Training Programs
• Adult Education under WIA
• Title V of Older Americans Act
• Other Programs approved by local board elected
  officials
• Job Corp
• Native American Programs

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Other Partners Within Utah One-Stops
(Not-Required)

• Services / Programs
• TANF Funded Services
• Food Stamps
• Food Stamp Employment Training
• Refugee Resettlement
• General Assistance
• Utah Displaced Homemaker Act
• Medicaid Eligibility

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State Workforce Investment Board (SWIB)

• State Council on Workforce Services members were
  grand fathered into SWIB
• Governor Appointed Representatives include
• Eight Region Council Chairs
• State Education Superintendent
• Higher Education Commissioner
• Office of Rehabilitation Executive Director
• Veterans Representative
• Eight Business Representatives (four small four
  large)
• Four Employee Organization Representatives
• Two Customer/Client Advocacy Organization
  Representatives
• SWIB performs functions of Local Workforce
  Investment Board

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State Workforce Investment Board Duties

• Assist Governor
• Develop a 5 year strategic plan
• Continuously improve the system
• Comment on Vocational Education State Plan
• Designate local workforce investment areas
• Develop allocation formulas
• Develop State performance measures
• Prepare Annual Reports
• Develop Statewide employment statistic systems
• Apply for incentive grants

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Region Councils

• Eight Region Councils voting membership includes
  representatives from
• Private Business (eight small eight large)
• Two employee organizations
• Two customer/client advocacy organizations
• Organized labor
• Three County Commissioners from the Region
• Higher Education
• Veterans
• Office of Rehabilitation
• Economic Development Board or Committee Member

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Workforce Regional Council Service Functions

• Identify Region needs
• Utilize current workforce information to project
  Regional employment opportunities
• Identify submit youth provider recommendations
  to SWIB
• Identify submit training provider
  recommendations to SWIB
• Provide program oversight
• Negotiate Regional performance measures

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Regional Councils Workforce Service Functions
(cont.)

• Identify job skills needed to obtain employment
  Region of State
• Identify performance measures ensuring a
  Continuous Improvement System is developed
• Create partnerships with other agencies and
  organizations to assure services are not
  duplicated

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Youth Council

• Regional Council Subgroup
• Membership
• Local Board members with youth issues expertise
• Youth service agencies and former participants
• Public Housing Authorities
• Parents
• Job Corps
• Juvenile Justice Authorities
• Others

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Youth Council Duties

• Develop youth portion of local plan
• Recommend youth providers and grand awards to
  Board
• Conduct oversight
• Coordinate youth activities

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One StopMemorandum of Understanding (MOU)

• One-Stop Partners must enter into a MOU with the
  local board
• MOUs must describe
• One-Stop services
• Service operating cost funding
• Referral methods between One-Stop operators and
  partners
• MOU duration and amendment process
• Other

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Core Services

• Universal access for adults
• Job Search and Placement Assistance
• Outreach, Intake, Orientation Services
• Initial Assessment
• Career Counseling
• Labor Market Information
• Training Provider Performance Cost Information

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Core Services (cont.)

• Local WIA Performance Measure Results
• Supportive Services Information
• UI Claim Filing Information
• Welfare-to-Work and Financial Aid Application
  Assistance

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Intensive ServicesRequires Eligibility
Determination

• Employment Counselors are Service Brokers
• Customers include
• Unemployed not successful through core services
  provided
• Employed and requiring core services to increase
  employment income or retain employment
• Provided by One-Stops or through contracts

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Intensive Services

• Examples
• Comprehensive Skill Needs Assessments
• Employment Plan Development
• Group Counseling
• Individual Counseling and Career Planning
• Case Management
• Welfare recipients low-income participants
  receive priority if funds are limited
• Utah gives priority to low-income individuals

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Training Services

• Adult Dislocated Worker Eligibility
• Requires more than intensive services to obtain
  or retain employment
• Requires training to obtain employment
• Meets skill levels and qualifications to succeed
  in training
• Training directly links to employment
  opportunities
• Requires assistance in obtaining training funds
  (not eligible for other grants such as Pell, etc.)

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Eligible Training Providers

• Initial Eligibility
• Region Councils accept or deny provider
  applications
• State Council makes final approval
• Subsequent Eligibility
• Must meet minimum levels of performance
  requirements
• Required performance cost information must be
  provided

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Eligible Training Providers

• Additional Features
• State list of eligible training providers
• Customer may choose any provider on the list
• States may enter into reciprocal agreements with
  other States

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Formula Youth ProgramsFunding and Eligibility

• Ages 14-21, low income, with one of the following
  barriers to employment
• Basic skills deficient
• School dropout
• Homeless, runaway, or foster child
• Pregnant or parent
• Offender
• Requires additional assistance to complete
  education programs, or to secure and hold
  employment

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Formula Youth ProgramsFunding and Eligibility

• Up to 5 of participants who are not low income
  and meet one or more barriers
• At least 30 of local youth funds must help those
  not in school

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Performance Accountability

• Core Indicators for adults, dislocated workers
  youth ages 19-21
• Entry into unsubsidized employment
• Six month employment retention
• Earnings 6 months after placement
• Attainment of recognized credential
• Earnings change

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Performance Accountability

• Core Indicators for Youth 14-18
• Basic Skills Attainment
• Secondary School Diploma
• Postsecondary School, Military, Employment, or
  apprenticeship Placement Retention

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Performance Accountability

• Employer participant satisfaction indicators
  established
• State performance levels negotiated with
  Secretary of Labor
• Local performance levels negotiated with State
• State responsible for State and local annual
  performance reports
• Secretaries of Labor Education define core
  indicators and performance levels

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Testing for Controlled Substances

• No State is prohibited from
• Testing participants for controlled substance
  use or
• Sanctioning participants testing positive
• Participants must have opportunity to appeal
  testing results sanctions
• Only Statewide administrative funds can be used
  for testing costs

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Title IIAdult Education Family Literacy
Programs

• Assist adults to gain the following
• Literacy skills
• Employment self sufficiency skills
• Describes fund use and allocation
• Describes DOL grant award process
• Describes 5 year plan content requirements

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Title IIIWorkforce InvestmentRelated Activities

• Wagner-Peyser Act
• Maintained separate funding authorization for
  Wagner-Peyser Act employment services
• Made some changes to Labor Market Information
• 21st Century Workforce Commission
• Commission to study information technology
  workforce in U.S.
• Prohibitions
• Excludes School to Work Opportunities Act
  expenditures

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Title IVRehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998

• Vocational Rehabilitation Operation Services
  Impacts
• Annual report requirements
• Exemplary practices analyses
• Statewide service consistency
• Workforce development systems information
  referral
• One Stop cooperative agreement provisions
• Presumptive eligibility for SSDI SSI recipients
• Individual Plan for Employment
• Council membership expansion
• Research Training, Special Projects
  Demonstrations, National Council on Disabilities,
  Rights Advocacy

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Title VGeneral Provisions

• Unified Plan
• Incentive Grants
• Funding Authorizations
• Secretary of Labor Secretary of Education
  transition provisions

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Attracting Real Business Involvement

• Workforce Economic Development
• Community Employer Outreach
• Participate with state local economic
  development divisions
• Create partnerships with business organizations
  (Chambers of Commerce, Rotary Clubs, etc.)
• Market offer expanded employer services
• Placement activities
• Interview facilities

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Workforce DevelopmentEconomic Development
WIA should be an instrument of economic
development with social benefits, not a social
benefits program with some economic
development. Emily Stover DeRocco
Assistant Secretary of ETA/DOL