Transcript Workforce Solutions - Atlanta Regional Commission

Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act
• 811 pages enacted July
22, 2014
• Notice of proposed
Rules and Regulations
by January 18, 2015
• National Skills Coalition
calls WIOA “a familiar
framework” – could be
called a WIA “restart” –
not a whole new
approach
What Does WIOA Do?
• Strengthened and simplified
performance measures
• Better alignment across
programs through unified or
combined state plans
• Required convening of sector
partnerships
• Promotion of best practices,
including career pathways,
integrated training models,
credential attainment, and
sector partnerships
4 Priority Areas for WIOA
Implementation
• Sector Partnerships
• Career Pathways
• Data and Credentials
• One Stops
Key Highlights – New State Plan
due 7/2016
• Ensures that “CORE” programs are
coordinated by requiring a single 4 year
State plan
• Core Programs include:
WIA Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth
Adult Education and Literacy (DOE)
Employment Services
Rehabilitation Services
Key Highlights – Local Areas
• States to identify “regions” in consultation
with local boards and CLEOs
• Regions can be single areas, multiple areas
and interstate areas
• Requires Regional planning, information
sharing, coordination of service delivery,
development of regional sector strategies,
regional labor market data, establishment of
administrative costs arrangements, etc.
Key Highlights – Local WIBs
• Local WIB membership
• Majority business and business chair
• 20% labor, (including a labor-management
representative), education, economic
development, CBOs and core providers
• Does not require all one stop partners to be on
the board
• Eliminates the youth council (but could exist as a
standing committee)
• Suggests standing committees: One Stop
partners, Youth Services and Services to
individuals with disabilities
Key Highlights – Local Plan
• To align with state strategy
• Analyses of economic conditions and labor
market and strategies to meet employment
needs for skills shortages
• Establish sector strategies and partnerships
• Better coordination with economic
development, secondary and postsecondary
(for career pathways)
• Integrated technology based intake system
WIOA and Sector Partnerships
• WIOA defines “industry or
sector partnerships” using
SECTORS Act definition
• Requires state plans to
describe how employers
will be engaged –
including through industry
or sector partnerships
• New performance
measure on employer
engagement (to be
defined by DOL)
WIOA and Sector Partnerships
• New requirement for
local WIBs to
“convene, use or
implement” sector
partnerships
• Opportunity to use
Governor’s 15 %
reserve to develop or
expand sector
partnerships
WIOA and Career Pathways
• State board must
develop strategies to
support the use of
career pathways
• Local board must lead
efforts to develop and
implement career
pathways, include
descriptions in local
plans
• 15 % funds may be used
to develop career
pathways programs
WIOA and Career Pathways
• Clarifies that concurrent
enrollment and ABE that
helps individuals transition to
postsecondary education and
training or employment is
permissible
• Title II language promotes
integrated learning models
• New performance measures
designed to improve service
delivery for low-skilled adults
moving along a career
pathway
WIOA and Data and Credentials
• Single set of
performance measures
across all core programs
• Common measures:
employment, earnings,
credential attainment,
employer engagement
• Performance measures
for all programs must be
calculated using UI wage
records
Performance
• Replaces the WIA common
measures
• Increases the number of
performance measures
• Changes the time frames
for employment retention
and wages to 2nd and 4th
quarters after exit
• Industry recognized
credentials both
percentage and number are
new
• Youth literacy and
numeracy no longer a
measure
Performance of Training Providers
• Increased measures +
• Required to relate to in-demand industry
sectors
• Training related employment
• Numbers of students with barriers to
employment
• Average cost per participant
• Youth providers continue to be
competitively procured
Key Highlights – One Stops
• Partners required under current law+
– Second Chance Act
– TANF
• Partners are required to use a portion
of funds to maintain the one stop
including infrastructure costs
• Requires Employment Services to be
co-located at one-stops
State Integration Group
• The state has formed a WIA/ES integration
group) due to USDOL requirement in the
state plan for integration of facilities as well
as management information systems
• Maher and Maher consultants visited
Gwinnett GDOL and the ARWB Duluth offices
and will present an integration plan
• Complexities of metro area versus rest of
state in facilities designed to accommodate
more than one WIA person
Adult/DW activities
• Consolidates core and intensive as “career
services” – to be conducted by ES
• “WOIA funds should be focused on training and
not career services” - issue is how to correctly
assess and prepare individuals for training and
employment
• Designation of a business liaison – establishing
networks on small employers
• Establish industry partnerships
• Priority continues on low income and basic skills
deficient
• Increases incumbent worker training to 20%
Key Highlights – Youth Service
 Age eligibility up to 24
 Change to 75% out of school/25% in school
funding (big change from current state focus
on in school youth and the current 30% out
of school WIA requirement)
 20% funding requirement for work
experience
 Will require most local areas to change
youth service plan
Funding
• Even though 6 year
amounts are included, the
allocation amounts are
decided in the
appropriations committee
• Allows 100% transfer of
funds between Adult and
Dislocated Workers
State Set-Aside
• Back to 15% off the top – may mean less
to local areas depending on total
allocations
• GDEcD to focus on establishment of
apprenticeship programs with employers,
similar to Quick Start model
Opportunities to Weigh In
• WIOA’s passage will kick
off a flurry of activity at
the state and agency
levels
• WIOA signals policy shifts
and adoption of best
practices, but includes
few requirements, so
there will be many
opportunities to weigh in
and shape
implementation
Opportunities to Weigh In
• 1-2 year transition period,
states will be developing
new state plans
• Federal agencies will
solicit public comment on
regulations
• Advocacy on federal
funding
• Opportunities to define
how career pathways,
sector partnerships, other
strategies are
implemented at state and
local level
Vehicles for Weighing In
• WIOA Resource Page –
www.doleta.gov/WIOA
• Questions submitted to
email at
[email protected]
• Town Hall meetings (SETA
September 14-17)
• NSC Skills Summit
– February 8-10, 2015