Missouris Preliminary Goals and Expected Outcomes

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Missouris Preliminary Goals and Expected
Outcomes

• March 22, 2003

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Preliminary Goals

• Publish a Report on the State of Missouris
  Workforce by December 2003.
• Design and Deploy a Workforce System Performance
  Scorecard by December 2003.
• Missouri Career Centers Will Become a Pipeline of
  Referrals to Vocational Education and Community
  Colleges.

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Preliminary Goals (cont.)

• Identification of Essential and Technical Skills
  Needed by Business/Industry.
• Community College Realignment.

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Workforce System Performance Scorecard

• Targeted Outcomes
• Connecting Student to Careers K-12 Outcome
  Measures
• Adult and Lifelong Learning Outcome Measures
• Quality of Life Outcome Measures
• Businesses Outcome Measures

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Connecting Student to Careers K-12 Outcome
Measures

• Percent and number of students testing at
  proficient or above on the MAP/TIIMS, ACT and
  Terra Nova
• High school graduation and GED pass rates
• Percent and number of students transitioning to
  jobs with wages above the county average
  without remedial training.
• Percent and number of students transitioning to
  post-secondary education without remedial
  education.

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Students Transitioning Without Remedial Education

• Strategies
• Establish a baseline on the percent and number of
  students transitioning to post-secondary
  education without remedial education
• Establish a performance baseline regarding
  referrals from Missouri Career Centers to
  education and training providers

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Students Transitioning (cont.)

• Strategies
• Provide career path information to students
  including supply/demand gap analyses that
  identify growth occupation
• Utilize the Counselor Academy to help counselors
  work with students and parents to explore choices
  and options job shadowing
• Expand access to community college and technical
  education, resulting in greater affordability for
  students, particularly those from low-income
  families

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Students Transitioning (cont.)

• Strategies
• Scale statewide business/labor/education
  partnership best practices found in high
  performance schools.
• A-Team available to assist regions, communities
  and schools to improve student outcomes.
• Identification of essential and technical skills
  needed by business and industry

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Businesses Outcome Measures

• Percent and number of regional targeted industry
  companies able to find qualified (skilled)
  candidates.
• Strategies
• Provide career path information to students and
  job-seekers, and supply/demand gap analyses that
  identify growth occupation trends to communities

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Businesses Finding Qualified (Skilled) Candidates

• Strategies
• Utilize the Counselor Academy to help counselors
  work with students and parents to explore choices
  and options job shadowing
• Identification of essential and technical skills
  needed by business and industry
• Provide the education and training curricula and
  capacity to provide essential and technical
  skills in a just-in-time basis

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Businesses Finding Qualified (Skilled) Candidates

• Strategies
• Increase the number of students and adults
  pursuing career paths in regional targeted
  industry occupations
• Increase the number of referrals from Missouri
  Career Centers to private/public education and
  training providers

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Missourians with High School Diplomas or GEDs

• Measures
• Percent and number of Missourians with a high
  school diploma or GED
• Percent and number of Missourians with a post
  high school certificate or credential
• Percent and number of Missourians who are
  literate
• Percent and number of Missourians with an
  Associates degree or higher

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Missourians with High School Diplomas or GEDs

• Retention rate of Missouri Associate and
  Baccalaureate graduates
• Percent and number of Missourians who are
  actively engaged in learning skill-based
  training

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Missourians with High School Diplomas or GEDs

• Strategies - Measure No. 1
• All Missouri Career Centers will provide access
  to GED/ESL.
• Career Boot Camp for youth who have dropped out
  of school.
• Establish Career Academies on community and
  technical college campuses (residential).

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Missourians with High School Diplomas or GEDs

• Strategies - Measure No. 1
• All TANF clients without a high school diploma or
  GED will participate in the Missouri Career
  Center GED program or and on-line GED program.

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Missourians with High School Diplomas or GEDs

• Strategies - Measure No. 2
• Expand inventory of Web-based short term
  instructional and training modules and make
  available to any education and training provider.

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Missourians with High School Diplomas or GEDs

• Strategies - Measure No. 3
• All Missouri Career Center will offer literacy
  programs.
• Local Workforce Investment Boards to build
  coalitions of faith-based organizations,
  community action agencies, and representatives of
  local businesses to establish literacy
  improvement programs in their region.

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Missourians with High School Diplomas or GEDs

• Strategies - Measure No. 4
• Maintain the states community and technical
  colleges as points of low cost access to post
  secondary education.
• Increase participation in the States community
  and technical college out of district
  instructional and training sites.

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Missourians with High School Diplomas or GEDs

• Strategies - Measure No. 6
• Expand programming available through the states
  electronic delivery system.
• Showcase Regional Technical Education Councils
  (RTECs) best practices.
• Develop additional private/public partnerships to
  increase business profitability and worker
  employability.

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Missourians with High School Diplomas or GEDs

• Strategies - Measure No. 6
• Design and deploy distance learning programs in
  targeted industry and occupational clusters, and
  thereby reduce duplication and establish skill
  standards.