Transcript LONG ISLAND REGIONAL INNOVATION GRANT (LIRIG) PROJECT

LONG ISLAND REGIONAL
INNOVATION GRANT
(LIRIG) PROJECT
FUNDED THROUGH A GRANT AWARDED
BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
OF LABOR TO THE TOWN OF
HEMPSTEAD ON BEHALF OF THE LONG
ISLAND BUSINESS SERVICES TEAM
Funding Authority
Regional Innovation Grant (RIG) under
National Emergency Grant (NEG)
Dislocated Worker funds, pursuant to
Workforce Investment Act (WIA), Title
I, Section 173, as amended and
Training and Employment Guidance
Letter (TEGL) 16-05, Change 5, dated
April 27, 2007
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Submitted By
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Town of Hempstead Local Workforce Investment
Board (LWIB) on behalf of the Long Island
Business Services Team (LIBST)
LIBST includes:
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Town of Hempstead/City of Long Beach LWIB
Town of Oyster Bay Consortium LWIB
Suffolk County LWIB
New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) Division
of Employment Services (DoES)
NYSDOL Division of Research and Statistics (R&S)
Long Island – Regional Adult Education Network
New York State Empire State Development
Others
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Regional Economy
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Innovation Plan will be constructed upon the
Nassau/Suffolk regional economic infrastructure,
in coordination with the New York State
Department of Labor and other regional partners
Separate economic identity, distinct industry
characteristics, and a workforce that constitutes
more than 1.4 million workers
Population is 2.8 million representing 15% of
New York State
77% of residents work in Nassau and Suffolk
Counties and 10% work in Brooklyn and Queens
Gross Metropolitan Product 134 billion dollars,
ranking the Region as 17th in the Nation
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Regional Economy (continued)
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Examples of existing Nassau/Suffolk
based strategic alliances:
• Connect Long Island (Regional Economy
Transformation Strategies through a
Sector or Cluster Based Approach
(NYSDOL RFP #13-N)
• LIBST
• Long Island Association, Inc. (LIA)
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Regional Economy (continued)
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Long Island (Nassau/Suffolk) leads New
York State in the number of subprime
foreclosures
7 of the 10 hardest hit communities in
New York State are in Nassau and Suffolk
Counties
Unique identity “Cradle of Aviation,” “Put a
man on the moon,” etc.
LIRIG will benefit Coney Island to
Montauk, along with the larger
Metropolitan Area
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Labor Market Impacts
“The latest data show continued high numbers of persons
receiving unemployment benefits in the category of people
previously employed in the Finance and Insurance Industry on Long
Island. In March of 2008 there were 1,940 beneficiaries from this
industry, up from 1,313 in March of 2007. This is an increase of
627 or a 48% increase over the year.”
“Long Island’s economic future in many ways hinges on growing an
advanced manufacturing sector that can not only provide high-wage
jobs, but serve as an inventive, technology innovation center,
boosting industries as diverse as modern health care, wireless
information, energy, trade, etc.”
- Gary Huth, NYSDOLR&S, Labor Market Analyst
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Core Regional Leadership Group
and Key Project Partners
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Governed by LIBST Executive
Committee
Grant Recipient/Fiscal Agent is Town
of Hempstead Department of
Occupational Resources
Leveraged Connect Long Island
Partnership
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Collaboration, Coordination, Roles
of Strategic Partners
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Under Connect Long Island (13N), LIBST
oversees the Long Island Forum for
Technology, Inc. (LIFT) as 13N Project
Operator
Under LIRIG, an Innovation Workgroup
will be established within the framework
of Connect Long Island
Innovation Workgroup will include key
stakeholders
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Leveraged Resources
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13N (Connect Long Island)
New York Science Technology and
Research (NYSTAR) investments
Regional economic studies (i.e. Mapping
Career Ladder Projects, Long Island
Index)
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Title I-B
Trade Adjustment Act Program funds
Long Island One-Stop Partner funding
streams; WIA Title II funds, investment in
regional Centers of Excellence; etc.
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Leveraged Resources (continued)
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Resources from Empire State
Development and other local
economic development
organizations, local government
departments of economic
development, industrial development
agencies, Empire Zones, etc.
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Services
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Innovation Workgroup will:
• Support Connect Long Island
committees with emphasis on
developing dislocated workers from the
financial industry as a talent resource
• Develop conduct a Strengths,
Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
(SWOT) Analysis
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Services (continued)
• Create an Innovation Plan to rapidly identify worker
downsizing and plant closure events, to provide a layoff
aversion strategy where feasible, create an categorical
listing of the skills of affected workers, cross-reference
the skills inventory with industry occupational demands
identified by the Connect Long Island initiative, and
produce a skills gap report
• Based upon the skills gap report, the Innovation
Workgroup will work within the Connect Long Island
Partnership to identify appropriate training opportunities
and leverage resources to fund services to eligible
dislocated workers
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Services (Continued)
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Services to be procured include:
• Programming and management of
a skills data base
• Web site development
• Contractor services to coordinate
and facilitate the Innovation
Workgroup
• Independent Evaluator
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Transformation Strategies
to be Implemented
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Map downsizing and layoff events
Share information with the Connect Long Island
Partnership
Compile an inventory of the skills of workers in
data base
Cross-reference worker skills with demands of
occupations with industry sectors and clusters
studied by the Connect Long Island Project
Design training to equip workers in the talent
pipeline with the skills needed by businesses in
our economy
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Transformation Strategies
to be Implemented (continued)
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One-Stop System will serve as
access points for jobseekers to
obtain in-depth labor market
information and to access career
development services
Data collected through the LIRIG
project will be organized and
maintained on a web site for broad
public access
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K through 12 Connections
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Skill requirements of transformational industries, as well as
skills gaps determined to contribute to worker dislocations,
will be shared with the superintendents of the Long Island
School Districts, along with organizations that forge
partnerships with business and education, such as Long
Island Works Coalition, Inc.; local Youth Program Service
providers, faith-based and community-based organizations,
etc.
The Innovation Plan developed by the LIRIG Innovation
Workgroup will include processes to align the K through 12
System with the educational opportunities created by
Connect Long Island (13-N) to fulfill the needs of growing
industries and industry clusters
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K through 12 Connections
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Recommendations provided by the Innovation
Plan will be submitted to the New York Education
Department for consideration in the development
of new curricula
The Innovation Workgroup will attempt to enlist
local colleges and universities in the process of
communicating workplace demands to the local
high schools during their recruitment activities,
using data from our Innovation Plan
Our Innovation Plan will be shared at public
forums attended by the K through 12 community
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Projected Outcomes and Impacts
for Planning and Implementation
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Creation of a web-based inventory of the skills of
dislocated workers
Development of a computer program to crossreference the skills inventory with industry
occupational demands identified by the Connect
Long Island initiative
Publication of a web-based, updatable skills gap
report
Alignment of training opportunities and leveraged
resources with the skills required to perform
demand occupations in transformational, high
growth industry sectors/clusters identified by
Connect Long Island
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Projected Outcomes and Impacts
for Planning and Implementation
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Alignment of the service process for
affected employees, where feasible, across
the Long Island Region and in coordination
with the New York City Region
Transformation of our reemployment
system into a regional innovation system
that aligns economic development,
education and workforce initiatives
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Organization Chart
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