County Commissioner

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County Commissioners New Connection with
Economic Development

• Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
• Supplanting the Workforce Investment Act
• by
• Clinton Flowers Performance Manager
• Mark Bauer Director State Workforce Board
• Missouri Division of Workforce Development

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The Message?
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What is in the workforce message?

• The Workforce Investment Act has been replaced by
  a more focused, strategic approach!
• County Commissioners remain Chief Local Elected
  Officials (CLEOs) appointing or affirming all of
  the board stakeholders involved. (however, some
  prescriptions prevail in the law)
• Regional workforce development boards (WDBs)
  remain partnership tables. Their Directors
  your friend!
• Speed and action in learning about these changes
  is warranted!

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Workforce Investment Act is going away replaced
by What?

• The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act,
  signed into place by President Obama July 22,
  2014. (Reference H.R. 803, WIOA)
• The WIOA was passed with an overwhelming amount
  of bi-partisan political support, and its
  writing was shepherded by a large number of
  supporting experts in the fields of workforce and
  labor policy and economic development.
• While a great deal of the supporting governance
  of WIA will stay in place (with some key
  modifications) a deeper look into the focus is
  needed to understand.

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You will want to get a quality team together in
your region!
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Sector Strategies and Career Pathways are the big
deal!

• Sector strategies are at the core of everything
  the new workforce investment system is built
  around.
• Sector (-based) Strategies Take a comprehensive,
  broad-based approach to identifying and
  addressing skills needs across a range of key
  industries within a region, rather than focusing
  on the workforce needs of individual employers,
  and are intended to be far more affective at
  defining regional Career Pathways.

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What are Sector Strategies-Career Pathways?

• Step 1 Use labor market information about the
  region to determine the prevalent industry
  sectors (sometimes also called the drivers of
  the local economy.)
• Step 2 Engage employers from these sectors in a
  partnership forum for discussion. What are their
  needs for staffing, skills, training and
  barriers to be removed?
• Step 3 Equally invest time and resources in a
  partnership forum for discussion about how
  readily the region provides skills through
  education or certification for these needsCareer
  Pathways.
• Step 4 Make a workforce investment plan about
  making these connections and set the Board about
  the business of delivering on these needs over
  time.

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What are Sector Strategies-Career Pathways?

• Some examples of Sector Strategies in states and
  regions across the country. See the National
  Governors Association
• http//www.nga.org/files/live/sites/NGA/files/pdf/
  2013/1301NGASSSReport.pdf
• Another source is the National Association of
  Workforce Boards
• http//www.nawb.org/documents/sector_strategies_fu
  ll.pdf

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What are Career Pathways

• https//www.workforcezone.net/careerpathways/
• We have one great example of Career Pathways,
  from Missouri, the above is a link from the
  Joplin region.

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A Missouri example of Sector Strategy planning

• An ever growing number of employers (located
  among an entire region) experience shortages in
  finding workers that are certified welders.
• The Workforce Board engages employers in sectors
  hiring welders to hear and learn about this
  skills shortage AND at the same time engages
  regional education to gather input and develop a
  plan on how to best increase the supply of
  certified welder skills (a Career Pathway) in the
  region.
• There is a workforce investment in a solution
  that may require action from education,
  employers, other stakeholders!

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What is about the same as WIA?

• Workforce funds still flow through DWD as is an
  administrator of these funds.
• Workforce Development Boards (WDBs) oversee
  contracting with a grant recipient of these funds
  and the One-Stop (Career Center) operator
  operates the Career Center.
• Chief Local Elected Officials still appoint
  Board members but this must be according to the
  Governors membership criteria and process.
• CLEOs remain accountable for these funds

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Think this is no real change?

• When you read between the lines, there is
  significant change in this. You see Workforce
  Development Boards, yes they will continue to
  have sufficient services and programs, but you
  see this is no longer their primary purpose.
• The WDBs primary purpose is delivering on the
  results of employer engagement, sector strategies
  and career pathways. So.Less about Career
  Center services, more about employer engagement
  (leading to better defining Career Center
  services).

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Still Think there is no real change?

• WIA programs currently serve these customer
  groups
• -- Adults (mostly economically disadvantaged) --
  Dislocated Workers -- Youth (aged 16-18) --
  Trade Act program -- XXWagner-Peyser (labor
  exchange services) -- Veterans
• WIOA ADDS-IN these clients
• -- Eligible participants of the Division of
  Vocational Rehabilitation and of Rehabilitation
  Services for the Blind, AND
• -- Eligible participants of the Adult Education
  and Family Literacy program High School
  Equivalency (HSE) formerly known as GED testing.

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Your Team May Need to Work Harder than Ever!
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The Framework of this Change

• v Employer Engagement
• v Sector Strategies
• v Career Pathways
• v Service Design with new partners will have to
  be explored (yes, Internet access may be critical
  to customer access)
• v Political stakes are high
• v One-Stop Operator must be re-bid out
• v Regional planning strategy is needed soon
• v CLEOs will make great Board member
  appointments

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Virtual, Cloud Computing Connections may be Needed
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Rough, Early, Potential Anticipated?

• State Workforce Board seated by July 1, 2015
• Because the implementation/transition year
  begins
• Local Workforce Boards transitioned from WIA to
  WIOA by July 1, 2015
• -- Because WIOA boards will need time to
  engage employers about sector strategies
• State Workforce Plan due by September 30, 2015
• Local Workforce Plans due by February 1, 2016
• July 1, 2016 StateLocal Performance due to USDOL

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Seating a Quality Board is the First Order of
Business
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Workforce Board Members
WIA minimums WIOA minimums
2 each from economic development, 5 from labor organizations and 1 each from economic development, higher education, AEL, VR and W/P (10)
education, labor and CBOs, with 10 (12) With 12 business
One-Stop Partner agencies and 13 business
To some degree, smaller boards could be
But here is a big twist on the old formula, achieved, removal of CBOs and One-stop
Business must represent the sectors in partner agencies.
Your region! But addition of labor organizations may
be a heavy lift for some regions!

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A Quality Approach for Appointments!

• There are two important things to emphasize on
  quality control with your local board
  appointments, these are
• Your WIB director will have the written policy
  rules (DWD can copy CLEOs these rules and they
  will be posted on our DWD website).
• 2) Please ensure they have a written source of
  origin and process. A nomination is made by a
  business organization, passed to the CLEO and
  endorsed by them before voted upon!

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Ultimately, we want WIOA to mean Transformation
in the economy!
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Questions not Already Asked?