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WIA

THE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT

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THE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT

TITLE I

• STATE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT SYSTEM
• LOCAL ONE-STOP DELIVERY SYSTEM
• THREE LOCAL PROGRAMS

YOUTH, ADULT, DISLOCATED WORKERS

(SYSTEM PARTNERS) FIVE NATIONAL PROGRAMS (SYSTEM PARTNERS)

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MORE TITLES

TITLE II: ADULT EDUCATION AND LITERACY (SYSTEM PARTNER) TITLE III: WAGNER-PEYSER (SYSTEM PARTNER) TITLE IV: VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION (SYSTEM PARTNER) TITLE V: GENERAL PROVISIONS

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USDOL’s Key WIA Reform Principles

• Streamlining services and

information to participants through a One-Stop delivery system

• Empowering individuals to
• btain needed services to enhance

their employment opportunities

• Ensuring universal access to

core employment-related services

• Increasing accountability of

States, localities, and training providers for performance

• utcomes
• Establishing a stronger role for

Local Boards and the private sector

• Providing increased State and

local flexibility to implement

innovative and comprehensive workforce investment systems

• Improving youth programs

through services which emphasize academic and occupational learning

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WIA System Partners

Required One-Stop Program Partners...

• Workforce Investment Act Title I Programs (Adults, Dislocated Worker, Youth, and

National Programs

• Wagner-Peyser (WIA Title III, Employment Service)
• Adult Education and Literacy (WIA Title II)
• Vocational Rehabilitation (WIA Title IV)
• Welfare-to-Work Grant Program
• Senior Community Service Employment Programs
• Vocational Education
• Trade Adjustment Assistance/NAFTA
• Veterans
• Community Service Block Grant E/T Programs
• HUD Employment and Training Programs
• Unemployment Insurance
• Other programs, approved by the WIB

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WIA System Partners

Optional One-Stop Program Partners

• TANF (Public Assistance)
• Food Stamp Employment and Training
• National and Community Service Act

Programs

• Other appropriate programs, including the

private sector

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Interim Final Regulations: Subpart A; Section 662.100

What is the One-Stop Delivery System?

“In general, the One-Stop delivery system is a system under which entities responsible for administering separate workforce investment, educational, and other human resource programs and funding streams (referred to as One-Stop partners) collaborate to create a seamless system

• f service delivery that will enhance access to the

programs’ services and improve long-term employment outcomes for individuals receiving assistance.”

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What Makes A One-Stop System?

• Everyone can be served and have diverse needs met.
• Customers, service standards, and resources are shared.
• Components relate to each other and to other systems.
• Multiple programs have a single customer interface.
• Clear customer pathways exist from one service to another.
• Mutual accountability for system performance.

No matter who operates the One-Stop Center the One-Stop Partners operate the One-Stop System.

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Partners must make available to participants through the One-Stop delivery system the core services that are applicable to the partners programs. The required core services….

• WIA Title I eligibility determination
• Outreach, intake (worker profiling), and orientation
• Initial assessment
• Job search, placement assistance, and career counseling
• Employment statistics information
• Job listings, skills needed, occupational demand
• Info on eligible training providers; performance outcomes; One-Stop

activities; filing claims for UI; supportive services

• Help in establishing eligibility for WtW and financial aid
• Follow-up services (for at least 12 months)

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Title I: Adult Dislocated Workers

Customers move through the levels…

• Core Services
• Intensive Services
• Training Services

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The Required Core Services

• WIA Title I eligibility determination
• Outreach, intake (worker profiling), and orientation
• Initial assessment
• Job search, placement assistance, and career counseling
• LMI: job listings, skills needed, occupational demand
• Info on eligible training providers; performance outcomes;

One-Stop activities; filing claims UI; supportive services

• Help in establishing eligibility for WtW and financial aid
• Follow-up services (for at least 12 months)

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Potential Intensive Services

• Comprehensive and specialized assessment
• Development of individual employment plan
• Group counseling
• Individual counseling and career planning
• Case management for customers in training
• Short-term prevocational services (soft-skill

development)

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Moving from Core to Intensive and from Intensive to Training Services

At least 1 Core; Unemployed, no job through core services; Needs intensive services for a job or self-sufficiency; Meets priority criteria, if low funding At least 1 Intensive; Can’t get/keep job through

intensive services; Needs training and meets provider qualifications; Selects training responsive to labor market demand; Unable to get a (or insufficient) Pell Grant

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WIA Title I, Section 101: Definitions

• Adult:

Is age 18 or older.

(Note: Youth is defined as ages 14 to 21; so, older youth may be served under either the youth or adult funding streams and, if s/he meets the definition

• f a “dislocated worker”

under that stream, as well)

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DISLOCATED WORKER

(1)

• Has been terminated or laid off, or who has received a notice of

termination or layoff, from employment:

• is eligible for or has exhausted entitlement to UI; or
• has been employed for a duration sufficient to demonstrate

attachment to the workforce, but is not eligible for unemployment compensation due to insufficient earnings or having performed services for an employer that were not covered under a State unemployment compensation law; and (Note: Will this apply to welfare recipients who lose jobs?)

• is unlikely to return to a previous industry or occupation.

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DISLOCATED WORKER

(2)

• Has been terminated or laid off, or has received a notice of

termination or layoff, from employment as a result of any permanent closure of, or any substantial layoff at, a plant, facility, or enterprise;

• is employed at a facility at which the employer has made

a general announcement that such facility will close within 180 days; or

• for purposes of eligibility to receive services other than

training, intensive, or supportive services, is employed at a facility at which the employer has made a general announcement that such facility will close.

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Dislocated Worker

(3)

• Is self employed (including

employment as a farmer, a rancher, or a fisherman) but is unemployed as a result of general economic conditions in the community in which the individual resides or because of natural disasters.

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WIA Training Services

Training Options Customer Choice Empowerment

Training services may include…

• Occupational skills training;
• On-the-job training;
• Workplace training combined with related instruction;
• Training programs operated by the private sector;
• Skill upgrading and retraining;
• Entrepreneurial training;
• Job readiness training;
• Adult education and literacy activities w/job training;
• Customized training

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WIA Training Services

Individual Training Accounts must be used, unless…

• OJT or customized training;
• Insufficient number of eligible

providers in local area; or

• WIB determines a private (or

community-based) organization effectively serves those with multiple barriers.

Strategic Questions…

• How will you create a

market driven system?

• How will you ensure

informed, customer choice?

• What will be the provider

certification system?

• What will be the ITA

specifications?

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Customer Choice

Training services shall be provided in a manner that maximizes consumer choice in the selection of an eligible provider of such services. Individual training accounts… Training services may be provided through a contract if:

• Services are on-the-job training provided by an employer or

customized training;

• The WIB determines there are an insufficient number of eligible

providers of training services in the local area involved (such as in a rural area);

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Customer Choice, continued...

The WIB determines there is a:

• training program preparing individuals for
• ccupations in demand which is of
• demonstrated effectiveness offered by
• a community-based or other private organization to
• serve special participant populations that face
• multiple barriers to employment.
• Such “special populations” are low-income and in one or more of the

following categories: individuals with substantial language or cultural barriers; offenders; homeless individuals; other hard-to- serve populations as defined by the Governor.

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Help Customers Make Wise Choices

• Be a consultant!
• Give the opportunities

and the constraints.

• Offer information and

(if asked) advice.

• Present “labor market

demand” before choice.

• Conduct an interest

inventory before choice.

• Determine qualifications

before choice.

• Provide information on

providers beyond performance date.

• Display information so

customers can fully understand it.

• Require comparison

shopping before “purchase”.

• Practice questions to ask

using customer report data

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Title l: Youth

• Youth System: Formula Youth, Youth Opportunity Grants, and

Job Corps…and community.

• Youth Council role
• Targeted eligibility for youth
• Different performance indicators for older and younger youth
• Minimum of 30% for out-of-school youth
• Combined funding for year-round and SYEP
• Comprehensive service package
• Youth development and employment and training activities
• Competitive selection process

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WIA Title l, Section 101: Definitions

Eligible Youth:

• Is not less than age 14 and not more than age 21;
• Is a low income individual; and
• Is an individual who is one or more or the following:
• Deficient in basic literacy skills;
• A school dropout;
• Homeless, a runaway, or a foster child;
• Pregnant or a parent;
• An offender;
• Requires additional assistance to complete an educational

program, or to secure and hold employment.

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WIA Title l, Section 101: Definitions

School Dropout:

No longer attending any school and who has not received a secondary school diploma or its recognized equivalent.

Offender:

• Has been subject to any stage of the criminal justice

process; or

• Requires assistance in overcoming artificial barriers to

employment resulting from a record of arrest or conviction.

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WIA Title l, Section 101: Definitions

Out-of-School Youth

• An eligible youth who is a school dropout;
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• An eligible youth who has received a

secondary school diploma or its equivalent but is basic skills deficient, unemployed,

• r underemployed.

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Local Youth Services

A youth system…

• All eligible youth must be provided:
• information on the full array of services available through the

WIB, eligible providers, or One-Stop partners, and

• referral to appropriate training and educational programs.
• If an eligible youth does not meet provider enrollment

requirements or cannot be served by the provider, the youth shall be further assessed and referred to appropriate programs.

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Out-of-school youth are a priority...

• At least 30% of the funds shall be used to serve out-of-school youth.
• Exception: If a state receives a “minimum allotment”, it may reduce

the percentage, if:

• the state determines a local area will be unable to meet the 30%

minimum due to a low number of out-of-school youth;

• submits to USDOL, a request with a reduced percentage; and,
• USDOL approves the request.

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Up to 5% of youth served…

• May be those above income guidelines, if they are:
• school dropouts;
• basic skills deficient;
• below the grade level appropriate to the youth’s age;
• pregnant or parenting;
• individuals with disabilities;
• homeless or runaway youth;
• offenders, or,
• those with barriers to employment as defined by the WIB.

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Eligible Providers

• WIB identifies

providers on a competitive basis (based on recommendations

• f Youth Council

and State Plan criteria)

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Required Program Design

• Objective assessment of the academic levels, skill levels,

and service needs of each participant

• Service strategies for each participant that shall identify

an employment goal, appropriate achievement objectives, and appropriate services

• Preparation for post-secondary educational
• pportunities; strong linkages between academic and
• ccupational learning; preparation for unsubsidized

employment opportunities; and effective connections to intermediaries with strong links to the job market and local and regional employers

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Required Program Elements

• Tutoring, study skills training, and instruction leading to completion
• f secondary school, including dropout prevention strategies
• Alternative secondary school services
• Summer employment opportunities directly linked to academic

and occupational learning

• Paid/unpaid work experiences
• Occupational skill training
• Leadership development opportunities
• Supportive services
• Adult mentoring for not less than 12 months
• Follow-up services for not less than 12 months
• Comprehensive guidance and counseling