Changing Trends, New Responses

1. Changing Trends, New Responses What’s in Store for Workforce Development?

2. The Federal Picture • No reauthorization this year • Budget challenges • Continuing resolutions • House efforts to eliminate program funding • The Jobs Bill

3. Changing landscape • This recession is different • Our past “best practices” aren’t working • Forces us to look for new answers

5. The new “normal” • Assumptions: • Workforce development must be led by priority industries critical to economic stability and growth • Our workforce consists of working learners (70% of the 2018 workforce is already working) • There will be little to no “new money” • Economies are increasingly regional • Economies will increasingly be based on networks/distributed systems/place based economic development

6. Prioritize Sectors/Clusters • Organize programs around sector/cluster strategies. • Utilize WIB facilitated industry consortia/partnerships to real time data for systems/curriculum change • Expand public/private partnerships to align learning inside and outside the classroom (On-the-job training) - classroom training cannot do it all • Invest to expand strategies like lean that use current worker training to increase industry competitiveness • Clarify, market and invest in the certifications that bring the biggest “bang for the buck” • Provide more opportunities for demonstration of mastery of skills

7. Working Learners • Learners (and public systems) as investors • 40/40/20 toward degrees/certifications that matter (especially for middle-skill jobs) • Education/training in faster, shorter, distributed chunks tied to real outcomes/career pathways. • More “learn and earn” (current worker training) = changing roles and responsibilities for public/private partnerships • ALL education competency based • Align workforce benchmarks/leverage points with 0-20 continuum and beyond

8. Limited funding

9. Limited Resources • Single, transparent state workforce budget • Align programs via Local Workforce Investment Plans to remove silos, reduce duplication, and target resources toward the success of Oregon’s people and companies, rather than programs requirements • Tie funding to outcomes (as in the 0-20 continuum) • Create a simple, coherent set of performance data and outcomes tied to funding

10. Regional Economies • Align/bridge workforce development with Governor’s Regional Solutions. • Develop/redevelop data systems to provide quality regional supply and demand data • Utilize Council on Competitiveness and other resources to support regional approaches to economic and workforce development

11. Distributed Systems • Actively develop networks for economic development • Design distributive systems for learning and education (beyond distance education) • Identify and support place based approaches to economic development • Focus on entrepreneurialism • Utilize sectoral approaches, industry consortia, and regional solutions to actively expand networks, nodes and bridges

12. OWP vision for the future

13. State Level (Executive) Agenda

14. To This

18. In the meanwhile: OWP state legislative agenda • Back to Work Oregon • First general fund investment into workforce system • A pilot of a new way to look @ workforce development • Employer Workforce Training Fund (http://Oregonwfpartnership.org)