Workforce Innovation

Slide 1:Workforce Innovation

�Ideas are like rabbits. If you rub two of them together, you�ll soon have a dozen.� John Steinbeck paraphrase

Slide 2:Entrepreneurship Ideas

Mississippi post Hurricane Katrina: never waste a crisis! WorkingHabitat in Michigan: $1500 per trained, high paid placement; $20 per customer served! Job development and labor exchange goes global! So, do you want to open a restaurant? Eastern Kentucky�s �put a rebel to work� idea Not enough job openings? Make your own job!

Slide 3:Where�s the $$$?

TANF ECF, or �80/20� money $2.5 billion left unclaimed!!! It�s can be used for subsidized employment You CAN generate the match

Slide 4:TANF ECF Ideas

A 2010 summer program Mississippi STEPS: 1) employer hires first, 2) 100% declining to 40% reimbursement over six months, 3) a WIA OJT can follow A paid internship built around classroom training A paid position in lieu of an �unemployment� check Entrepreneurship: $5000 in start up capitol

Slide 5:A School in Every One-Stop

North Central Washington: Out-of school youth are enrolled in their �academy� The Center picks up roughly$5000 in State Education $ for every kid and gives about $1000 back to the local school district The kids work on a degree and, if they follow through, get a paid internship The workforce area doubles it�s youth $, lowers the local dropout rate, helps the schools during a budget crisis and delivers 250 new HS degrees per year!

Slide 6:Waivers and Workflex

Performance standards are waivable! That�s how we got the Common Measures ... Does the �entered employment� rate make sense now? How about the youth �literacy/numeracy rate? USDOL wants NEW performance ideas! What should we be delivering and measuring during the �Great Recession�?

Slide 7:Core, Intensive and Training

The whole �C-I-T� or �inverted pyramid� model is outdated and useless. Is �Exit� an outmoded concept? What about life time learning, instead, and alumni services? Why not become a �WorkFlex� State?

Slide 8:What�s A One-Stop?

There are three places to spend the $: 1) training and supportive services, 2) staff salaries and fringes, and 3) One-Stop rent and overhead. Which would you cut first? What would a One-Stop look like w/o the building? A skilled staff person with a laptop IS a One-Stop

Slide 9:Really Cool Centers

Killeen, Texas Belden, MS Austin, TX�s �Techie� Center DC�s Center/Drugstore Indiana�s �Outpost� Centers

Slide 10:Rapid Response

Bring the Center to every RR event RR can last for years after the closure The Michigan NEG ... $5000 per trainee doled out as your agency attracts and retrains laid off workers: $3500 for training, $1000 for staff and overhead, and $500 for admin. Let the race begin! This is a whole new way to buy ALL kinds of WIA services!

Slide 11:So What Else is Really Cool?

WIA is a good old car that gets 15 mpg. It�s time to test drive some new models! What do you do BEST that needs to be expanded? What great new ideas are you ready to try out?

Slide 12:WHAT�S NEXT???

Old Ray Smith ... �Pick one thing from your list each day, forget about the rest and get that one thing done.� LA Times Horoscope: �You don�t need to get involved in every good idea that comes along. One or two are you can handle at once.�