Californias Roadmap

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Californias Roadmap

• Fulfilling the promise of the Workforce Inclusion
  Act

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Speakers

• Dennis Petrie, Deputy Director
• Employment Development Department, Workforce
  Services Branch
• Megan Juring, Project Director
• California Health Incentives Improvement
  Project, Sonoma State University

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Priority Implementation Areas

• Strong stakeholder involvement
• Included in plan development process
• Input maintained in separate report
• Subcommittees established to include subject
  matter experts and community partners

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Priority Implementation Areas

• Subcommittees Responsible for all
• Goals and Objectives
• Policy and Planning
• Education and Employment
• Business Liaison
• Agency Liaison

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Priority Implementation Areas

• Comparative Ranking
• Impact to Difficulty
• Revisions by the 3 Rs
• Research
• Resources
• Reality

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Lessons Learned

• As hard as planning and approvals can be
• Implementation is harder !!!

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Bumps and Potholes

• Government process
• Vs
• Systems change

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Lessons Learned

• Administrative effort in system change
• Budget change and legislative proposals
• Closed process
• Departments elevate to Agencies
• Agency elevates to Department of Finance, etc.

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Lessons Learned

• Community driven systems change (Workforce
  Inclusion Act)
• Charitable foundation funds sponsored grassroots
  discussions
• Advocates developed a policy platform
• Legislative champion picks up policy change recos
• Bill passes after 2-year process

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Lessons Learned

• Policy development through collaboration
• how does this work again ? ? ?

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Policy development

• Policy Planning Subcommittee includes advocate
  membership leadership on actions.
• WID ? CA Workgroup on Work Incentives ? Gaps Task
  Force statewide consumer and advocate group
  sponsored by the California Endowment as CHIIP
• Calls included county Medi-Cal staff state
  workers
• Prioritized recommendations for improvements to
  the Medi-Cal Working Disabled Program (Buy-In)
• Back to Policy and Planning Subcommittee and
  shared with Executive Board and Governors
  Committee on Employment of People with
  Disabilities

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Lessons Learned

• Policy development
• Role Changes
• Committee member and staff roles
• Ownership and Action
• Influencing others

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Measurable Outcomes

• Early for anything but process measures
• Workplans
• Building in evaluation components
• Baselines for outcome measures
• Administrative data sources
• Population survey sources

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Using the Roadmap

• As CHIIPs Global Positioning System
• Broadens Scope of work plans
• Provides focus on immediate actions

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Using the Roadmap

• As a committee triptik
• Limits wandering
• Identifies interim objectives

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Using the Roadmap

• As a state California Highway Patrol (CHiiP)
• Communicates expectations
• Allows inquiry
• Creates accountability

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Comp Strategy Traffic Flow

• Merging on
• Keeping up
• Speed limits
• Renewing licenses
• ..and
• Reaching destination points!

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Speakers

• Dennis Petrie, Deputy Director
• Employment Development Department, Workforce
  Services Branch
• Megan Juring, Project Director
• California Health Incentives Improvement
  Project, Sonoma State University