JFVA Implementation Seminar

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JFVA Implementation Seminar

• NVTI
• Denver, CO
• July 15 - 25, 2003

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ETA Implementation Plan

• ETA Veterans Priority Implementation Advisory
  Group
• Marilyn Shea is the lead for a project with the
  Urban Institute.
• VETS Jobs Clearinghouse Web Portal - Dave Morman
  from the Office of Workforce Investment is the
  lead.
• DOL DOD Memorandum
• Returning Military Appreciation Day a.k.a. Coming
  Home to Work

• ETAs active participation in the regulatory
  process.
• Technical Assistance in the form of
• General Policy Guidance for Veterans Priority
  under the Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002
  memorandum dated April 10, 2003
• Training and Employment Guidance Letter entitled
  Implementing the Veterans Priority Provisions
  of the Jobs for Veterans Act (PL 107-288)
• ETAs participation in JFVA Implementation
  Seminars

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ETA Veterans Priority Implementation Advisory
Group

• Participating agencies
• Adults and Dislocated Workers
• Job Corps
• National Programs
• One-Stop
• U.S. Employment Services
• Veterans Employment Training Service
• Office of the Assistant Secretary for
  Administration and Management

• Issues to address
• Current veterans priority strategies
• Other strategies for providing priority of
  service
• Technical assistance needs

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Jobs Clearinghouse Web Portal

• Participating agencies
• Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
• One-Stop
• U.S. Employment Services
• Veterans Employment Training Service
• Electronic Linkages

• Challenges
• Over 3000 comprehensive and affiliate career One
  Stop centers.
• Listing all jobs with each local One Stop service
  delivery point poses a significant administrative
  burden on federal contractors and subcontractors.
  
• Identifying the appropriate contacts and managing
  distribution of job listings complicates the
  compliance requirement.
• Not having an appropriate centralized
  distribution system for listing job orders also
  encourages administrative loopholes that do not
  fulfill the intended goals.
• Proposed solution
• Design and develop a Web clearinghouse to serve
  as a single point of contact for posting job
  orders by the federal contractors and
  subcontractors.
• Seamlessly post and distribute job orders to
  DVOPs and LVERs at the appropriate One Stop
  service delivery points.

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DOL DOD Memorandum

• Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao and Secretary of
  Defense, Donald Rumsfeld signed a Memorandum of
  Understanding on 7/11/03.
• Purpose
• Ensure that opportunities for training, education
  and employment are available to military spouses
• Enhance recruitment and retention for the
  military services and
• Assist the transition and reentry of military
  personnel into the 21st Century workforce.

• Approach
• Establish a DOL DOD Planning Group. Tasked to
• Prepare an analysis of the military spouse.
  Prepare a report regarding current programs and
  future collaborations. Develop a plan to create
  Working Group
• Establish a DOL DOD Work Group

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Workforce Information Strategy

• ALMIS resulted from the Secretary of Labors 1995
  Report to Congress on the state of the labor
  market information in the nation.
• The Report summarized available labor market
  information, deficiencies in the system, and
  proposed vision and policy direction for a
  system of labor market information.
• ETAs resulting policy was to invest in the
  continuous evolution of a national LMI
  infrastructure which would facilitate informed
  decision-making in labor market transactions at
  all levels of workforce development.
• ETA intended for system development to be dynamic
  and evolve in response to customer-demand.
• Over the past eight years, we have made
  tremendous advances in infrastructure development
  through the funding of LMI Core Products grants
  to states, R D Consortia, and self-service
  E-Tools for public access to LMI.

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Workforce Information Strategy

• To that end, we commissioned an environmental
  scan of current workforce information available
  from public, private, and academic research
  organizations.
• We are in the process of consulting with various
  customer groups to assess information needs to
  be completed in early August. The groups are
• State members of the WIC
• NASWA LMI Committee
• American School Counselors Association
• ACCRA Economic Developers Association
• Attendees at Workforce Innovations Conference
• RISE Business Small Businesses Association
• San Diego Workforce Partnership, Inc.
• Montgomery County, MD WIB

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Workforce Information Strategy

• We will evaluate the information and propose a
  strategy to the Assistant Secretary which
  addresses
• The purpose of the ETA funded system,
• Our process for development and delivery of
  workforce information,
• ETAs funding model for workforce information,
  and
• Strategies for addressing gaps in the current
  system.

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ETA Priority Investment Areas for PY 03
Discretionary Spending

• Building a Demand-Driven Workforce Investment
  System
• Focusing on Key Segments of the Workforce
• Building Comprehensive Systems through New
  Strategic Approaches
• Evaluating Program Effectiveness
• Building the Capacity of Workers to Obtain Good
  Jobs with Good Wages

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Building a Demand-Driven System

• Innovative approaches to help business and
  industry better access the services of the
  workforce system
• System capacity building
• Developing solutions to the workforce challenges
  faced by high growth, high change and emerging
  industries

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Focusing on Key Segments of the Workforce

• Older Workers
• Hispanic Workers
• Individuals with Disabilities
• Out-of-School Youth New focus under
  reauthorization of Workforce Investment Act

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Building Comprehensive Systems through New
Strategic Approaches

• Homeless Strategies DOL member of Interagency
  Council on the Homeless
• Rural Strategies MSFWs are component of this
  larger strategy
• Faith/Community-Based Organizations Focus on
  system-wide activities to build connections

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Evaluating Program Effectiveness

• Program Evaluation Evaluations need to be
  conducted of all ETA programs, consistent with
  OMBs PART process.

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Building the Capacity of Workers to Obtain Good
Jobs with Good Wages

• Literacy and Language Services
• DOL LEP guidance
• Technical assistance and training to workforce
  investment system
• Building connections with language literacy
  services provided under Adult Education Program
• Services to immigrant populations in general

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Common Measures Initiative

• OMB-Approved Common Measures Effective FY 2004
• ETA working with IGO Consortium and Labor
  Exchange Performance Measurement Workgroup
• Training and Employment Notice No. 8-02 issued
  3/27/2003 on Implementation of Common Performance
  Measures for Job Training and Employment Programs

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Common Measures Initiative (continued)

• Advisories on common measures methodology and
  data sets expected in August 2003
• Proposed September 2003 Federal Register to
  contain reporting instructions for all ETA
  programs implementing the common measures
• Federal Register process completed and OMB
  approval of reporting

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ETA QUARTELY REVIEW OF PROGRAM
RESULTS AS OF MARCH 31, 2003
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WAGNER-PEYSER (ES)
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Labor Exchange and VETS Performance Results As
of March 31, 2003

• Total Veterans and Eligibles from 9002B 1,239,224
• Total Veterans and Eligibles from VETS 200C
  658,432
• Total Applicants from VETS 200C 752,213

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Discrepancies in ES Data Reported for Job Seekers
Job Openings

• States reported 25-79 drop in the number of job
  seekers.
• States reported 23-86 drop in the number of job
  openings received.
• State registration policies and zero carry-in
  policy contribute to underreporting.
• States reported two different employer customer
  satisfaction scores for WIA and ES.

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Discrepancies in ES Data Reported for Job Seekers
Job Openings (continued)

• ETA is considering amending the ET 406 Handbook
  to clarify definitions for registered job seekers
  and job openings to
• Total Job Seekers Job seekers who complete
  registration or receive a service with the labor
  exchange during a reporting period consisting of
  four consecutive calendar quarters. (This means
  all individuals that either registered with or
  received a service from the public labor exchange
  during the reporting period.)

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Discrepancies in ES Data Reported for Job Seekers
Job Openings (continued)

• Total Job Openings Count of total job openings
  received within the reporting period. This means
  all job openings listed with the public labor
  exchange during the reporting period. The job
  opening may have been listed by the employer
  through self service or it may have been listed
  with staff assistance. Regardless of how the
  opening is obtained, it is to be included in the
  total job openings count if the date received
  falls within the reporting period.