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BETTER TOGETHER

Explore the depth of workforce funding in California, align resources, and connect with national vision for job-driven solutions. Learn from federal officers and regional directors how to enhance workforce systems in focal areas such as re-employment, veterans, and industry sectors. Discover investment opportunities like TAACCCT Round 4 and Face Forward 2 grants for community colleges and court-involved youth. Join H-1B Ready-to-Work to support job-driven partnerships and specialized training for long-term unemployed workers. Connect investments through system roles, waivers, and policy flexibility. Join Region 6 webinars and strengthen workforce systems capacity.

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BETTER TOGETHER

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  1. BETTER TOGETHER Aligning Resources and Partners in CA Regions

  2. Objectives Your ETA Team • 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

  3. National Vision

  4. Job-Driven Workforce Solutions Organize Community Resources

  5. 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

  6. Region 6 Priorities

  7. Strategic Investment & Alignment

  8. Aligned Performance Management Measurements

  9. Customer-Centric Service (Re)Design

  10. Building of the Field

  11. ETA Resources in California

  12. 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

  13. Formula and Discretionary Resources

  14. Discretionary Investment Areas • Re-Employment/Long-Term Unemployed • At-Risk Youth • Ex-Offenders • Innovation in Service Design • Community College Curriculum/High-Growth Credent. • Apprenticeship

  15. 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”

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Resource Alignment

  19. 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

  20. Connecting Investments: Leveraged $ • Aloha: 6/40 • SF Healthcare • Lean State • Functional Alignment • Co-Enrollment • Hawaii example • Bay Area Health Care • Central Vly • Oregon • WA

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

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