Transcript Engagement as Strategy: Leading by Convening in the SSIP

Policy Connections in Search of
Practice Connections
Workforce Innovation
Opportunity Act (WIOA)
• Signed into law July 22, 2014
• Reauthorizes the law through 2020
• The Act
• Section IV – Amendments to the Rehab Act
The Act: Overarching Ideas
• Core Services defined, including VR
• Requires accessible One Stops ( Section 188)
• Requires coordinated State Plans
• Focuses on Disengaged Youth, including youth
with disabilities
Section IV: Highlights
• VR in the Coordinated State Plan
• MOU with Medicaid and DD
• Increased role of VR in transition
• 15% of VR funds on transition activities, including preemployment:
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Job exploration counseling
Work-based learning
Pot secondary exploration counseling
Workplace readiness training
Training on self-advocacy
• Limitations on the use of sub-minimum wage
• Definitions of Competitive Employment and Customized
Employment
• Restrictions on 14C certificates
Technical and Adaptive Change:
A WIOA Challenge!
Persistent Challenges
• Technical Challenge
Requires information, knowledge or tools
• Adaptive (Relationship) Challenges
Requires understanding and a willingness to make
behavior changes
Source: Heifetz and Linsky, Leadership on the Line, 2002
The Leadership Challenge
 Learning that technical solutions are necessary
but often not sufficient
 Knowing when a persistent problem needs a
adaptive (relationship) solution
 Building adaptive (relationship) skills as a part of
strategy
Provision:
VR in the Coordinated State Plan
• What is the potential value of the provision?
• What is the technical side of the provision?
• What is the human side?
• How what can we do now ..and in the future to
make this provision more meaningful?
Provision:
MOU with Medicaid and DD
• What is the potential value of the provision?
• What is the technical side of the provision?
• What is the human side?
• How what can we do now ..and in the future to
make this provision more meaningful?
Provision:
15% of VR funds on transition activities,
including pre-employment
• What is the potential value of the provision?
• What is the technical side of the provision?
• What is the human side?
• How what can we do now ..and in the future to
make this provision more meaningful?
From Your Role…
What needs to be done?
• To address the technical challenges?
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• To address the adaptive challenges
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Building an Inclusive Community of Practice:
4 Simple Questions
Persistent problems of implementation remain challenging because they require crossing many boundaries to ensure progress in
practice. Issues are complex, interconnected, and can look different from the perspective of various implementers.
In these situations, we encourage leaders to use 4 simple questions:
•Who cares about this issue and why?
Answering this question permits leaders to think beyond their personal/professional aspect or role and to develop a ‘big picture’ of the
issue in practice.
Who cares?
Why do they care?
List by role, organization, position, name, etc.
Note connection to the issue
Preparing the Field for WIOA
• Tools available through the National CoP on
Transition
o LRE and Transitions
o Youth developed webinars
• Tools to be created:
o PP and Dialogue Guides on WOIA
• We welcome your participation!