OFFICE OF NATIONAL RESPONSE NATIONAL EMERGENCY GRANTS (NEG) Performance and Reporting Summit

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OFFICE OF NATIONAL RESPONSE NATIONAL EMERGENCY
GRANTS (NEG) Performance and Reporting Summit

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Speakers

• Kim Powell
• Office of National Response
• Employment and Training Administration

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Agenda

• Background
• Whats New in NEG
• Performance Framework
• Key Terms and Concepts
• Discussion Forum

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National Emergency Grants

• National Emergency Grants (NEGs), are
  discretionary awards that are intended to
• Temporarily expand the service capacity at the
  state and local levels to respond to specific
  events
• Provide time-limited funding assistance in
  response to significant economic events

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NEG Program Purpose

• Minimize the negative economic and employment
  impacts of dislocation from plants closings,
  global competition and natural disasters
• Training and retraining dislocated workers on new
  technologies and high-growth, high demand
  industries to enable them to earn industry
  certifications and become reemployed

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Four Types of NEGs

• Regular National Emergency Grants
• BRAC
• RIGs
• Disaster Grants
• Trade Dual-Enrollment
• Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC)

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Funding

• 1.5 billion annually in WIA Dislocated Worker
  funding
• Secretary of Labor holds 20 of dislocated worker
  funds in reserve for national emergency grants,
  demonstrations and technical assistance

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NEG Awards

• Funding by Category
• Regular
• Disaster
• BRAC

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NEG Awards
PY 2006 NEG RESULTS PY 2006 NEG RESULTS PY 2006 NEG RESULTS PY 2006 NEG RESULTS PY 2006 NEG RESULTS
Type of Neg Number of New Awards Funds Awarded
BRAC 7 16,778,262
Disaster 7 19,415,163
Dual Enrollment 9 5,995,453
Regular 12 23,480,883
HCTC 3 2,813,713
RIG 1 249,810
TOTALS 39 68,733,284
Total Funds Awarded for PY 2006 Total Funds Awarded for PY 2006 119,316,635
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Performance Results
Measures NEG Dislocated Worker
Entered Employment 71 83.4
Retention 89 87.8
Earnings Change -989 478
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Whats New in NEG

• Regional Innovations Grants (RIGs)
• RIGs are limited National Emergency Grant
  Resources. Set aside to assist state workforce
  agencies and local Workforce Investment Boards
  (WIBs)
• Funding is to be used to develop a comprehensive,
  integrated, strategic regional plan based on
  WIRED principles with a focus on current or
  future unanticipated economic events
• Awards will be limited to 250,000 for any one
  regional project with a grant period of 18 months
• Applications are taken on a rolling basis

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Whats New in NEG

• WISPR Impact
• Quarterly access to performance outcomes will
  inform management and decision-making for NEGs
• Common measure outcome data by project

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Whats New in NEG

• ETA is conducting a review of NEG data
• Conduct a review to better understand data
  collection, processing and reporting issues
• Develop reporting and definitions guidance
• Audience input today!

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Performance Accountability Framework

• Grant Management
• NEG Quarterly Progress Report
• Fiscal Accountability
• NEG Quarterly Financial Status Report
• Performance Outcomes
• WIA Quarterly Report
• WIA Annual report
• WIASRD

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NEG Quarterly Progress Report

• A Grant Management tool
• ETA Form 9104
• Project-level reporting
• Submitted through NEG e-system

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Financial Status Report

• Provides Quarterly Financial Status
• ETA Form 9099/9130
• Project-level reporting
• Submitted through EBSS

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Common Measure Performance Outcomes

• WIA Quarterly Report WIA Annual Report
• ETA Form 9090
• State-level data
• Submitted through EBSS
• WIASRD
• Participant-level data

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NEG Quarterly Progress ReportKey Terms and
Concepts
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NEG Quarterly Progress Report

• All NEG participants should be reported
• Those served only by a NEG
• Those served by a NEG and co-enrolled in WIA
• HCTC funded by NEG funds should be reported in
  NEG e-system

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NEG Quarterly Progress Report

• Report format used for all four types of NEGs
• One report required per NEG project
• All fields are cumulative from the NEG start date
• Completion of fields based on the type of NEG
• Electronic system will only ask for fields
  appropriate to project type, for example, health
  coverage payments only applies to Trade Act
  Health Insurance NEGs
• Due 45 days after the end of the quarter

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NEG Quarterly Progress Report

• Reported through the NEG e-system
• Click Begin next to Quarterly Performance
  Report

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Key Terms and Concepts

• Sample Elements of the QPR
• Total participants
• Receiving Intensive Services
• Enrolled in NEG-funded training
• Receiving NEG-funded supportive services
• Receiving Needs-Related Payments
• Employed in Temporary Disaster Relief Program
• Total Exits
• Total Entering Employment at Exit
• Total Expenditures at Grantee level
• Total Expenditures at Project Operator Level
  (including service providers of Project Operator)
• Total Project Expenditures

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Key Terms and Concepts

• Receiving Intensive Services
• 20CFR 663.200 and WIA Sec. 134(d)(3)(C)
• Examples include assessments, career plans,
  counseling, career planning
• Includes services wholly or partially-funded by
  the NEG
• Enrolled in NEG-Funded Training
• 20CFR 663.300 and WIA Sec. 134(d)(4)(D)
• Includes training wholly or partially-funded by
  the NEG
• Receiving NEG-Funded Supportive Services
• Included services wholly or partially-funded by
  the NEG

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Key Terms and Concepts

• Total Participants
• Number of eligible individuals who have received
  services funded by the NEG
• Includes NEG-only and co-enrolled participants
  receiving services from a partner program
• Note, the service fields do not sum because a
  participant may receive more than one service

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Key Terms and Concepts

• Exit
• Total cumulative exiters
• positive and negative outcomes
• Definition is the same for NEG e-system and the
  WIASRD
• A participant has not received a WIA program or
  partner-funded service for 90 consecutive
  calendar days, has no gap in service, and is not
  scheduled for future services

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Key Terms and Concepts

• Entering Employment at Exit
• The cumulative number of participants who have
  ceased to receive services funded by the NEG and
  who have entered employment within the grant
  period.

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Discussion Forum
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Discussion Forum

• Issues pertaining to definitions
• Challenges in collecting participant information
• Process used to estimate participation levels for
  the grant
• Process and data sources used in performance
  measure calculations
• Other success factors used to measure NEG
  performance

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Resources

• NEG Web site
• http//www.doleta.gov/neg
• ETA Performance
• http//www.doleta.gov/performance/results

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Contact Information

• Kim Powell, Grant Specialist
• Phone [phone]
• E-Mail Stein.Kimberly_at_dol.gov
• Mindy Feldbaum, Division Chief
• Phone [phone]
• E-Mail Feldbaum.Mindy_at_dol.gov