HempsteadWorks Business Services

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HempsteadWorks Business Services

• Ann Steinger
• Chairperson
• Workforce Investment Board
• 
  

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What is HempsteadWorks?

• A One-Stop employment system that combines the
  resources of several partner organizations to
  serve businesses and jobseekers
• Serves thousands of job seekers and businesses
  per year
• It includes a Full Service Career Center within
  the Hempstead Executive Plaza, along with sites
  in other locations
•  HempsteadWorks was established in accordance
• with the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of
  1998.

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Workforce Investment Act System Components

• State Workforce Investment Board
• Workforce New York Long Island Business Services
  Team (Regional)
• Local Workforce Investment Boards
• One-Stop System (Partner Programs)
• One-Center (Partner Services)
• WIA Program

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Mission Statement

• The mission of HempsteadWorks is to
• ensure that skilled workers are available to
  employers
• help jobseekers to find work and
• foster economic development.

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Vision

• Our vision for the future is one of unprecedented
  economic prosperity, growth and opportunity for
  businesses and citizens, along with realization
  of the highest quality of life attainable.

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One-Stop Partners

• Abilities, Inc.
• City of Long Beach Office of Youth and Family
  Services
• Economic Opportunity Commission of Nassau County
• Education and Assistance Corporation
• Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and
  Northern New Jersey, Inc.
• Job Corps
• Nassau Community College
• National Council On The Aging, Inc.
• New York State Department of Labor Division of
  Employment Services
• New York State Education Department Vocational
  and Educational Services for Individuals with
  Disabilities
• New York State Education Department Workforce
  Investment Act Title II, Adult Education and
  Family Literacy Act Network
• The Paxen Group, Inc.
• Town of Hempstead Department of Occupational
  Resources
• Town of Hempstead Housing Authority

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Core Business Services

• Recruitment of new workers, including free space
  for on-site interviewing at our Career Centers 
• Information regarding grants, financial
  incentives and tax credits
• Labor Market Information
• Information on training vendors and One-Stop
  System Performance
• Unemployment Insurance information
• Rapid response for layoffs, downsizing, etc.

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Intensive Business Services

• Assessment of the needs of business and
  marshalling of resources in response to those
  needs
• Assistance in accessing grant funds to train new
  and current employees  
• Mapping Career Ladders (Matching job descriptions
  and promotional paths with education, training
  and skill requirements)
• Development of Short-Term Prevocational Skills
  Training to develop Learning Skills
• Communication Skills Punctuality, Personal
  Maintenance Skills and Professional Conduct

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Training Business Services

• Development of Customized Training for new and
  current employees (incumbent workers)
• Development of On-The-Job Training for new and
  current workers
• Job Readiness Training
• Adult Education and Literacy, combined with other
  appropriate training

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New York State Department of Labor Request For
Applications (RFA) Number 25-M ADVANCE New York

• The New York State Department of Labor has
  issued Request For Applications (RFA) Number
  25-M, entitled ADVANCE-New York. The purpose
  of this Request for Applications (RFA) is to is
  to support employer strategies and local efforts
  for lifelong learning for the development of the
  incumbent (employed) worker by providing funds
  for upgrading the occupational skills of those
  workers.

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New York State Department of Labor Request For
Applications (RFA) Number 25-M ADVANCE-NY
(continued)

• ADVANCE-NY will provide funds to businesses to
  train incumbent workers in specific occupational
  skills needed by that business or industry and
  that lead to career growth and increased wages.
  The position(s) targeted for training must exist
  and be filled at the time the application is
  submitted. The applicant must demonstrate that
  the training will result in the workers'
  acquisition of transferable occupational skills.
  Public that is federal, state, county and
  municipal - employees are not eligible to be
  trained under this initiative.

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New York State Department of Labor Request For
Applications (RFA) Number 25-M, ADVANCE-NY
(continued)

• ADVANCE-NY uses Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
  monies to address employer demands for skilled
  workers. The program will fund projects that
  solve workforce problems by addressing identified
  skilled worker shortages within an industry or
  within a single employer's establishment through
  promoting occupational skills upgrading for
  incumbent workers.

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Workforce New York Long Island Business Services
Team

• To learn more, please call [phone], or
  e-mail us at
• LI.Business.Services_at_labor.state.ny.us.

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Town of Hempstead Department of Occupational
Resources (DOOR)

• Fiscal Agent/Grant Subrecipient under Title I of
  the Workforce Investment Act of 1998
• Member of the HempsteadWorks One-Stop Operator
  Consortium
• Provides staff to the Town of Hempstead Workforce
  Investment Board

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HempsteadWorks Achievements and Awards

• Certified as a Workforce New York One-Stop System
  (designates the highest quality of services)
• Awarded three (3) Promising Practices Grants
  by the State Labor Department
• Identified as a Promising Practice by the
  Workforce Excellence Network of the National
  Association of Workforce Boards

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Career Center Contact Information

• HempsteadWorks Career Center
• c/o Town of Hempstead
• Department of Occupational Resources
• Hempstead Executive Plaza
• 50 Clinton Street, Suite 400
• Hempstead, New York 11550
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• TTY 1-800-662-1220
• www.hempsteadworks.com
• 900 A.M. 445 P.M. (Mon. through Fri.)

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Web Sites

• www.hempsteadworks.com
• www.workforcenewyork.com
• www.doleta.gov
• www.nyatep.org