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Workforce Training andEducation Coordinating

Board

Update on Washington’s Workforce Development PlanTalent and Prosperity for All: Unlocking the Potential of Washington’s Workforce

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Central coordinating hub for WA workforce system. Sets a strategic vision

for the system. Measure system

performance through research, analysis.

Dual customer focus: Business and Labor guide the Board 2/3 of seats held by Business

and Labor; remaining seats held by major service providers (OSPI, SBCTC, ESD)

Advisory members representing STEM community, chief local elected officials, DSHS, and Commerce

The Workforce Board

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1. Help more people find and keep jobs that lead to economic self-sufficiency, with a focus on disadvantaged populations.

2. Close skill gaps for employers, with a focus on in-demand industry sectors and occupations.

3. Work together as a single, seamless team to make this happen.

Governor Inslee’s Charges to the Workforce Board

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Governor Inslee

Workforce Board

WIOA Steering Committee

Education/Career

Pathways

Local Governance/Sector

Strategies

Accountability & Eligible Training

Provider List

• Youth Services TF

• One-Stop Cert/Assessment Criteria TF

• Unified or Combined Plan TF

• Professional Development TF

• Accessibility and Technology TF

• Regional Planning TF• Sector Strategies TF

• Core Measures TF• Youth Measures

TF• ETPL/

CareerBridge TF

• All committees were led by business and labor leaders

• The Board coordinated over 75 meetings since spring, engaging more than 500 workforce development professionals, community stakeholders, and leaders in business and labor.

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Identify how Partners can Help

Customers Collaboratively and Efficiently

Improve Both

Worker Retention

and Earnings

Progression

A task force recommended Washington pursue a combined WIOA plan Encouraged as many

partner programs as possible to join, after consideration of impacts to customers

Partners could ask to opt-in or opt-out by letter to the Workforce Board and Governor

After 2 years, partners may reassess their participation in combined planning and petition the Board and Governor to opt-out

Washington’s WIOA Combined Plan

Roles of Partners in the WIOA Combined Plan…

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What programs are part of the state’s workforce development system?

• WIOA Title I Programs• Disadvantaged Adult • Youth• Dislocated Workers

• WIOA Title II Programs: Basic Education for Adults

• WIOA Title III Programs: Wagner-Peyser Services

• WIOA Title IV: Vocational Rehabilitation

• Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)*/WorkFirst

• Trade Adjustment Act• Veterans Employment and

Training• Unemployment Insurance

Services• SNAP Employment & Training• Senior Community Services

Employment• Community Development

Block Grant• Community Services Block

Grant

• Carl Perkins Act (secondary and post-secondary)

• Worker Retraining Program• Training Benefits Program• Apprenticeship• Private Vocational Schools• Second Chance Act• Job Skills Program• Customized Training Program

JULY2015

MARCH

2016

July 28 Steering

Committee adopts Task Force and

Subcommittee recommendati

ons

July 30-31Workforce Board Retreat Approves workforce plan’s

focus

August 17 Workforce Board

Meeting Elects to create a

combined plan with as many participating

partners as possible.

Approves Chapters 1-3 of High Skills, High

Wages plan(economic overview and

performance accountability).

August 25WIOA Writing Team Weekly Meetings start

September 17Workforce Board

Meeting Take action on Plan Outline

November 19Workforce Board

Meeting Take action on

Workforce Draft Plan

January 6 Board adopts Plan. Final Public Comment

Period Begins before

Governor’s Approval

March 3Plan due to

federal agencies with

Governor’s Signature

DecemberFinalize Operational Components of Plan

Phase 1 Workforce Plan

September & October Public

Forums9/11 Vancouver &

9/15 Spokane

Phase 2 November – January WIOA Plan

posted for public comment

Key Plan Writing Period

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The Workforce Board’s state plan for workforce development will be called Talent and Prosperity for All (TAP)

Contains a narrative, strategic component “Public-facing” Accessible to practitioners,

stakeholders, participants, legislators

Also contains an operational component Required elements of the

federal plan that involve program-to-program commitments to align the system

Talent and Prosperity for All

Workforce Training andEducation Coordinating

Board

Key Strategic Priorities and Goals in TAPSeizing WIOA’s Opportunities and Improving Outcomes for Job-Seekers and Businesses

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Integrated and

Streamlined Customer Service

Strengthened Business

Engagement

Accessible, Technologicall

y Savvy System

Next Generation

Performance Accountability

Washington’s Key Strategic Priorities for WIOA

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Serving everyone seamlesslyThe system’s goal is to ensure that every customer has the education, employability skills, work experience, and credentials needed to move into sustained employment and economic self-sufficiency, and receives the wraparound services needed to pursue his or her career pathway.

• Increase the number of designated navigators available within the One-Stop system.

• Develop an intake process that eliminates redundant assessments and streamlines customer experience.

• Increase the number of participants, including those with barriers, who have defined career pathways and have gained portable skills, received industry recognized credentials, and/or earned college credits.

Integrated Service Delivery Goals

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Business Engagement GoalsBetter access, better engagementBy providing businesses with easier access to the workforce system and a clearer understanding of the benefits of working together, Washington can move business engagement to the next level.

• Establish a baseline and increase the number of businesses utilizing the workforce system.

• Establish a baseline and increase the number and percentage of businesses reporting satisfaction with the services they receive via the workforce system by 5% each year.

• Have at least one sector partnership in development in each workforce region. Use the Sector Partnership Framework to show progress over time.

• Increase resources for work-and-learn opportunities, including on-the-job training and apprenticeship, internships, job shadows, but especially, incumbent worker training.

• Increase the amount of work-based training, including incumbent worker training, on-the-job training and apprenticeship, job shadows, internships.

• Train at least 30 percent of the workforce system on the implementation of sector partnerships.

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Accessibility and Technology GoalsEnsuring access to everyoneEvery Washington resident needs universal, barrier-free access to our state’s workforce system. Technology is a powerful tool that can reduce obstacles to access. However, it’s clear that technology will not solve all accessibility issues. Tailored approaches to different populations are required.

• Implement secure, wireless Internet access in public areas of all comprehensive One-Stop centers in Washington by 2020.

• Establish a state-level advisory committee on accessibility and barrier solutions and ensure the designation of local advisory committees during the first two years of the plan. By the fourth year of the plan, ensure the state-level advisory committee has received annual progress reports on One-Stop centers’ accessibility at the local level.

• Identify and encourage local pilot programs that use technology to facilitate and improve an integrated service delivery for customers, including programs designed to improve access to the system.

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Performance Accountability GoalsNew measures for a new federal actNew measures will focus on customers: workers, employers, jobseekers and students. Previous performance measures focused on programs rather than people.

• Develop a system to accurately measure the collective success of all WIOA Partners in serving workforce populations

Many details of WIOA’s performance accountability system are yet to be defined in regulation and federal guidance; however parts of the emerging picture are becoming clear. WIOA makes important changes in federal performance measurement requirements, including:• Updated and standardized outcome measures applied across all six core programs.

The majority of these measures are very similar to Washington’s existing IPI/State Core measures.

• Reporting procedures which recognize the relationship between participants’ barriers and other characteristics and their outcomes, and that many participants may be served by more than one program.

• Extending the types of training providers to be covered under performance-based Eligible Training Provider List processes.

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The Workforce Board and system partners have interpreted Governor Inslee’s charge as a call to improve access among all priority populations.

The state Workforce Board is forming a permanent Advisory Committee on Barrier Solutions to identify barriers in the system and leverage resources and expertise to remove them.

Displaced Homemakers Youth in/Formerly in Foster CareLow-Income Individuals English Language LearnersIndians, Alaska Natives,

Hawaiians Migrant/Seasonal Farmworkers

Individuals with Disabilities Individuals within 2 Years of Exhausted TANF Eligibility

Older Individuals Single Parents/Pregnant WomenEx-Offenders Long-Term Unemployed

Homeless Individuals Veterans“Other Groups”

WIOA’s Specific Focus on Priority Populations

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Public Comment on the Planhttp://wtb.wa.gov/WAWorkforcePlan.asp

We value your comments!

Please visit our webpage to download draft chapters of the TAP plan and submit feedback via email.

JULY2015

MARCH

2016

July 28 Steering

Committee adopts Task Force and

Subcommittee recommendati

ons

July 30-31Workforce Board Retreat Approves workforce plan’s

focus

August 17 Workforce Board

Meeting Elects to create a

combined plan with as many participating

partners as possible.

Approves Chapters 1-3 of High Skills, High

Wages plan(economic overview and

performance accountability).

August 25WIOA Writing Team Weekly Meetings start

September 17Workforce Board

Meeting Take action on Plan Outline

November 19Workforce Board

Meeting Take action on

Workforce Draft Plan

January 6 Board adopts Plan. Final Public Comment

Period Begins before

Governor’s Approval

March 3Plan due to

federal agencies with

Governor’s Signature

DecemberFinalize Operational Components of Plan

Phase 1 Workforce Plan

September & October Public

Forums9/11 Vancouver &

9/15 Spokane

Phase 2 November – January WIOA Plan

posted for public comment

Key Plan Writing Period

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For additional information go to:www.wtb.wa.gov/WIOA

Additional WIOA Information

Contact InformationTerri ColbertWIOA Program Administrator

360-709-4623 Terri.Colbert@wtb.wa.gov

Patrick WoodsOperations Director

360-709-4622 Patrick.Woods@wtb.wa.gov

Eric WolfWorkforce Policy Associate

360-709-4614 Eric.Wolf@wtb.wa.gov