Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania

• Common Measures System

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Why Common Measures?

• Common Measures
• Fits PAs vision of integration of workforce
  development
• Provides a Baseline for all employment and
  training programs
• Integral part of workforce program reform
• Applies similar standards to all workforce
  development programs

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PennsylvaniasCommon Measures System Features

• Pennsylvania has always had all Workforce
  Development Programs in the PA CareerLink
  Operating System, but were separate modules in
  the system.
• WIA
• Trade
• Labor Exchange

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PennsylvaniasCommon Measures System Features

• Implementation of Common Measures brought
• Single Entry/Single Exit
• Common Measures Program Activity Log
• Composite Reporting
• Decrease duplicate data input

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PennsylvaniasCommon Measures System Features

• The key is the
• Common Measures Program Activity Log.
• Single Entry/Single Exit
• Brings together program starts and exits for each
  program
• Reporting cycle starts and exits
• Exclusions and Gaps in Service
• Reporting

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At Time of Participation Information

• Screens are system-generated when
• A staff person enters a value-added service in a
  program
• A job seeker enrolls or performs a job search

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At Time of Participation Information

• Program Participation Screens
• Labor Exchange (EE01)
• WIA (WE01)
• Trade (TE01)
• Self-Service (SE01)

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SE01, EE01, TE01 and WE01

• Questions
• Labor Force Status at Time of Participation
• UI Status
• Highest School Grade Completed
• Military Status at time of Participation

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ES Participant Search Screen

• Allows staff to search by office or county
  for
• All current ES Participants
• Veterans
• ES Participants due to exit in 29 days or less

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WIA Participant Search

• WIA Participant Search Screen
• Can select the LWIA, County, or PA CareerLink
  office
• This search will show the names of job seekers
  whose WIA Cycle will exit in the next 29 days or
  less.
• This means that they are 61 days past the last
  estimated end date entered in the system or the
  WIA hard exit

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Exclusions and Gaps In Service
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Self-Service Participation
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Labor Exchange Self-Service System Changes

The system was modified to capture information
and track job seeker self-service participation.
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Labor Exchange Self-Service System Changes

• Three Value Added Services to
• create/extend Participation
• Self-Service Enrollment Participation (SSEP) -
  automatic
• Self-Service Job Search (SSJS) - automatic
• Self-Service Informational Activities (SSIA) -
  added by staff
• Counted as a separate program to track
• performance

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Reports
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State to Federal Reports

• Workforce Investment Streamlined
• Performance Reporting (WISPR)
• PA has piloted WISPR along with Texas beginning
  with the second quarter of PY06
• Standardization of data elements describing
  activities of job seekers
• Utilizes a single set of data to show interaction
  with the PA CareerLink system
• See sample report in handouts

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State to Federal Reports

• WISRD - Individual Record Report
• Contains participant characteristics, activities,
  and outcome information
• PA uses the Job Seeker User ID (JSUID) as the
  unique identifier
• Submitted electronically for all applicable
  exiters as well as literacy/numeracy participants
  on a quarterly basis

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State to Local Reports

• Labor Exchange
• Local Office Common Measures Performance Reports
• Entered Employment
• Retention
• Average Earnings

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State to Local Reports

• WIA
• State and LWIA Performance Reports
• Aggregate Numbers
• Participant Back-up Reports
• Adults and Youth To Be Post Tested

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Contact Information
Program Management Section Chief Cindy
Gnech cgnech_at_state.pa.us [phone] Program
Information-WIA Kevin Lyter klyter_at_state.pa.us (7
17) 783-4888 Lisa Vicente evicente_at_state.pa.us (7
17) 783-0127 Mike Fuller mifuller_at_state.pa.us (71
7) 783-6874 Program Information-Labor
Exchange Kathy Moore kathymoore_at_state.pa.us (717)
787-9886 Stephen Rzonca srzonca_at_state.pa.us (717
) 787-6352 Technical Information Dan
Villanova dvillanova_at_state.pa.us (724)
339-5028 Michelle Fraker mfraker_at_state.pa.us (717
) 763-3237
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