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Aligning Resources and Partners in CA Regions

• Understand the Breadth of ETA Workforce Funding in CA

• Think Through Opportunities for the Board to Look Broader

• Connect the Job-Driven Work of CA’s Boards to National Vision

• Carol Padovan – Federal Project Officer, CA’s Workforce System

• Jeffrey Chism – Federal Project Officer, Discretionary Grants

• Bryan Rogers – Regional Director, State Systems

Job-Driven Workforce Solutions

Organize Community Resources

Focal Areas

• Re-Employment/Long-Term Unemployed

• Innovation in Services, Maximized Flexibility

• Veterans, Disconnected Youth, Vulnerable Populations

• Credentials & Career Pathways

• Industry-Sector Alignment

• Federal and other Partners

Formula and Discretionary Resources

• CA FORMULA

• Workforce Investment Act Youth $119,122,833

• Workforce Investment Act Adult $114,152,207

• Workforce Investment Act DW $157,376,202

• Wagner-Peyser $ 79,586,271

• Labor Market Information $ 2,512,037

$472,749,550 Formula PY14

Formula and Discretionary Resources

Discretionary Investment Areas

• Re-Employment/Long-Term Unemployed

• At-Risk Youth

• Ex-Offenders

• Innovation in Service Design

• Community College Curriculum/High-Growth Credent.

• Apprenticeship

TAACCCT – Round 4

• Grant Purpose

• Build community college capacity to provide accessible training programs

• Increase attainment of industry recognized credentials in high growth industries

• Innovate design/delivery of instruction that leads to improved outcomes

• Details

• $450M;  All States; Single Institutions up to $2.5M; Consortia up to $15M

• Closes July 7; Issued April 16

• Eligible Applicants: Community Colleges

• Required Program Collaboration with System:Engage and collaborate with LWIBs, AJC’s, State agencies that administer TAA, other WIA required AJC partners”

Face Forward 2

• Grant Purpose

• Improve workforce outcomes of court-involved youth 14-24yo

• Attainment of education and industry-recognized credentials

• Use of career pathways

• Juvenile justice strategies for diversion and record expungement

• Details

• $44M;  4 grants of $5M; approx. 16 grants up to $1.5M; up to 39-month projects

• Closes May 2; Issued March 13

• Eligible Applicants: CBO or FBO with 501(c)3 status

• Required Program Collaboration with AJCs or Local WIBs

H-1B Ready-to-Work

• Grant Purpose / Focal Points

• Support high-performing job-driven partnerships

• Re-employ long-term unemployed workers

• Work-Based Training That Enables Earning While Learning

• Specialized services leading to rapid employment in occupations/industries for which employers use H-1B visas to hire foreign workers.

• Details

• $150M;  20-30 Awards from $3M - $10M; up to 48-month projects

• Closes June 19; Issued February 19

• Eligible Applicants: Public and Private Partnerships

• Required Program Collaboration with: Workforce System, Training Providers, Businesses and Non-Profit Business Intermediaries

Connecting Investments: System Roles

• Positioned work that leverages the system towards solutions and community advancement

• Strategic partnerships

• Collaborative funding/design

• Greater systems approach

• Effective structure

• Grant management

• Outcomes

Connecting Investments: Leveraged $

• Aloha: 6/40

• SF Healthcare

• Lean State

• Functional Alignment

• Co-Enrollment

• Hawaii example

• Bay Area Health Care

• Central Vly

• Oregon

• WA

• Connecting Investments: CA Waivers

• Customized Training and OJT sliding scale
  • Up to 90% covered by WIA funds; private or public employers

  • Could be used for layoff aversion activities

• Rapid Response and Local Funds for Incumbent Worker Training as Layoff Aversion

• Summer Youth Program waivers
  • Allows co-enrollment with TANF funds

  • Work Readiness as only credential; design framework flexibility

• Connecting Investments: CA Waivers

• Other waivers may be applied for
  • Only a handful of requirements may not be waived.

• Review the Database
  • http://waivers.doleta.gov

• TEGL 2609, Change 1

• Connecting Investments: Policy Flexibility

• Appropriations Act
  • Permits contracting for cohort training with eligible providers

  • In place since 2010

• Check Your Policies
  • “Accidental Inflexibility” leading to less opportunity

  • EDD Regional Advisors and ETA’s Carol Padovan as resources

• Join Us for More Learning

• Region 6 Targeted Technical Assistance

• Three Series of Webinars
  • Strengthening Customer Service Design

  • State and Local/Regional Alignment

  • Strengthening Workforce Systems Capacity