Gulf Coast Workforce Development Summit

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Federal Resources
Gulf Coast Workforce Development Summit September
7, 2006 Mobile, Alabama
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Presentation Overview

• ETA Mission
• Power of E3
• Demand-Driven Solutions-Based
• Globally Competitive Regional Economies

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ETA Mission

• The mission of the Employment and Training
  Administration is to contribute to the more
  efficient functioning of the U.S. labor market by
  providing high quality job training, employment,
  labor market information, and income maintenance
  services primarily through state and local
  workforce development systems.

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The Power of E3

• Economic Development Industry representatives
  define the workforce challenges/needs.
• Employment Workforce system accesses human
  capital and places trained workers in jobs.
• Education Education providers build core
  competency models and curricula to build core
  competencies, and train workers

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New Focus

• Talent development strategies driving regional
  economic competitiveness
• Strong and sustained strategic regional
  partnerships
• Workforce information for performance and
  strategic planning
• Leveraged resources and solutions-based strategies

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New Roles

• Building on Our Demand-Driven Work
• Workforce System A Catalyst for Innovation
• Workforce development more than training for
  current jobs
• Successful workforce investment creation of new
  jobs
• Talent as an economic asset

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Workforce Investment Act Funding - Alabama

• Adult
• 17,553,968
• Dislocated Worker
• 14,835,485
• Youth
• 14,738,266

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Workforce Investment Act Funding - Alabama

• Statewide Activities (15)
• 11,324,313
• Statewide Rapid Response
• 4,121,003
• Incentive Grants
• 2004 - 809,399
• 2005 - 912,153

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Wagner-Peyser Funding - Alabama

• State Employment Services Allotment
• 10,242,761
• Reemployment Services
• 527,432

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Hurricane Katrina Disaster Response - Alabama

• Reintegration Counselor Grant
• 1,400,000

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Discretionary Grants Funding - Alabama

• Community-Based Job Training Grants
• Total 7 grants
• Amount - 13,860,905
• Earmark Grants
• Total 8 grants
• Amount - 1,702,960
• Faith-Based Grants
• Total 2 grants
• Amount - 525,000

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Discretionary Grants Funding - Alabama

• H-1B Grants
• Total 1 grant
• Amount - 3,000,000
• High-Growth Job Training Initiative Grants
• Total 2 grants
• Amount - 5,446,935
• National Emergency Grants
• Total 4 grants
• Amount - 13,243,607

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Discretionary Grants Funding - Alabama

• Work Incentive Grants
• Total - 1 grant
• Amount - 600,000
• Youth Grants
• Total 1 grant
• Amount - 19,804,385

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Laid-Off Workers

• Pool of experienced workers, many of whom have
  the skills your business needs
• Career Centers assist these workers in finding
  new jobs
• These laid-off workers will have received
• Skills Assessment
• Training opportunities
• Resumé and interview skills training
• Job search assistance
• Local labor market information

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Older Workers

• Career Centers work with older workers by
  providing direct employment services and
  referring them for employment and training
  services to the Senior Community Service
  Employment Program.
• This program serves to train and employ persons
  with low incomes that are 55 years old or over in
  jobs and then assist them in finding job
  opportunities in the private sector.
• You can find program information at
  http//www.doleta.gov/seniors/

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Veterans

• Veterans are another source of qualified
  workforce power
• Many have been through rigorous military training
  everything from computers to cooking skills.
• Access to this wide array of skilled workers can
  be found through the local One-Stop Career
  Centers and the following websites
• http//www.dol.gov/vets/index.html
• http//www.usworkforce.org

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Veterans

• Tax credits are available if you hire many
  low-income workers including veterans
• The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a
  federal income tax credit that encourages you to
  hire eight targeted groups of job seekers,
  including veterans.
• For more information go to
• http//www.doleta.gov/business/Incentives/opptax/

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Persons with Disabilities

• Most require no special accommodations
• The cost for those who do is minimal (1,000 or
  less)
• The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
  was authorized by Congress in the Department of
  Labors FY 2001 appropriation. ODEP is a
  sub-cabinet level policy agency in the Department
  of Labor.

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Persons with Disabilities

• For assistance go to
• http//www.disabilityinfo.gov/digov-public/public/
  DisplayPage.do?parentFolderId11
• http//www.dol.gov/odep/

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Persons with Disabilities

• Tax credits are available if you hire many
  low-income workers including Persons with
  Disabilities
• The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a
  federal income tax credit that encourages you to
  hire eight targeted groups of job seekers,
  including persons with disabilities
• For more information go to
• http//www.doleta.gov/business/Incentives/opptax/

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Persons with Disabilities

• Two other business tax incentives are available
  if you hire persons with disabilities
• Deduction for cost of removing barriers to the
  disabled and elderly
• Disabled Access Credit.

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Ex-Offenders

• Released back into their communities and are
  seeking jobs and the stability that job brings.
• The Federal Bonding Program (FBP) has, over the
  last 30 years, enabled thousands of ex-offenders
  to successfully transition back into the world of
  work.
• FBP is a business insurance policy that protects
  the employer in case of any loss of money or
  property for which the employee is responsible.
• About 40,000 applicants have obtained jobs due to
  being bonded and 99 have proven to be productive
  employees.

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Ex-Offenders

• Tax credits are available if you hire many
  low-income workers including ex-felons and
  work-release inmates from low income families
• The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a
  federal income tax credit that encourages you to
  hire eight targeted groups of job seekers,
  including veterans.
• For more information go to
• http//www.doleta.gov/business/Incentives/opptax/
• http//www.bonds4jobs.com/

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Career One-Stop E-Tools

• CareerOneStop Portal
• The CareerOneStop Portal (COS) is a single point
  of entry to access all of the content in our
  E-tools America's Job Bank, America's Career
  InfoNet, and America's Service Locator.

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Career One-Stop E-Tools

• Americas Job Bank
• America's Job Bank (AJB) is a high volume (over 1
  million jobs 450,000 resumes), web-based
  electronic labor exchange that connects employers
  and jobseekers at a very low cost.

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Career One-Stop E-Tools

• Career InfoNet
• America's Career InfoNet (ACINet) helps people
  make better, more informed career decisions with
  occupational reports tools turning users into
  career entrepreneurs!

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Career One-Stop E-Tools

• Americas Service Locator
• America's Service Locator (ASL) provides
  universal access to the Workforce System helping
  individuals locate public service offices with
  information on finding a job, planning a career,
  locating training, or

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Career One-Stop E-Tools

• Toll-Free Help Line
• Toll-Free Help Line (TFHL) at 1-877-US-2JOBS
  (TTY 1-877-889-5627) provides up-to date
  information about the full range of workforce
  information and services for job seekers and
  employers as well as answers to employment and
  training questions.

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Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic
Development (WIRED)
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WIRED INITIATIVE

• The Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic
  Development (WIRED) initiative presents a unique
  opportunity for states to compete for grant
  funding to develop and implement a
  transformational approach to regional economic
  development.

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WIRED INITIATIVE

• WIRED provides funding, technical assistance and
  access to a cadre of experts to participating
  regions to help them move to the next level of
  system innovation and transformation.

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WIRED INITIATIVE

• WIRED Components
• Flexibility to design a system capable of fueling
  regional economic competitiveness.
• Recognition that economic regions do not
  typically correspond to state, county, local
  workforce area, or municipal boundaries.

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WIRED INITIATIVE

• WIREDs ultimate goal is to expand employment and
  advancement opportunities for American workers
  and catalyze the creation of high-skill and
  high-wage opportunities in the context of
  regional economies.

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WIRED

• The WIRED Initiative focuses on labor market
  areas that are comprised of multiple
  jurisdictions within a state or across state
  lines.

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WIRED

• Process
• Governors were asked to submit an application on
  behalf of the regional partnership.
• Governors could submit up to 3 applications

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WIRED

• Selection
• 13 economies were selected for this demonstration
  with grant awards up to 5 million per year for 3
  years.

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WIRED Region 3 Selections

• Floridas Great Northwest
• 16 counties including Tallahassee and Pensacola
• Western Alabama Eastern Mississippi
• 17 counties in Alabama including Selma and
  Tuscaloosa and 19 counties in Mississippi,
  including Meridian and Starkville
• Piedmont Triad North Carolina
• 12 counties, including Greensboro Winston-Salem

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WIRED WAEM Region

• Western Alabama Eastern Mississippi
• 17 counties in Alabama including Selma and
  Tuscaloosa and 19 counties in Mississippi,
  including Meridian and Starkville

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WIRED

• Participating states will receive ongoing
  intensive technical assistance.
• Will include extensive peer-to-peer contact.

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WIRED

• Quarterly meetings of all regional teams will be
  held to share challenges and best practices
• A report on operational best practices as well as
  implementation tool kits will be compiled and
  disseminated to the workforce and economic
  development communities.

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WIRED Virtual 14th Region

• Second Tier under the WIRED Initiative
• Letters sent out to 13 Governors whose original
  proposals were of outstanding quality, but not
  selected in the first WIRED Round of grantees,
  inviting them to participate in a national
  demonstration called Virtual Region.
• All 13 accepted.

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WIRED

• Invitation offered
• 100,000 planning grant
• Coaching sessions with the Resource Group
• A day-to-day ETA Liaison
• Access to the shared documents

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WIRED

• Federal resource mapping and issue area tool kit
  material on the collaborative workspace
• Outreach regarding future ETA SGAs or other
  agency RFPs,
• The opportunity to leverage and partner with
  other federal agencies
• Participation in WIRED Academies and Workforce
  Innovations

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WIRED Virtual 14th Region

• From Region 3
• North Alabama and South Tennessee
• 12 counties in Alabama and 1 county in Tennessee

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YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Give someone a little help, and you give them a
  lot of hope.
• - U.S. Secretary of Labor,
• Elaine L.
  Chao