State Workforce Investment Board

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State Workforce Investment Board

• ORIENTATION

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Purpose

• Provide a short overview of Americas Workforce
  Guiding Legislation
• Provide a general understanding of the State
  Workforce Investment Board (SWIB), its function,
  duties, and goals
• Share past accomplishments of the Board
• Offer basic points on meetings
• Share expectations and outline your role as a
  board member.

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Birth of the Workforce System in the United States

• 1930s
• Creation of U.S. Employment Service
• Creation of Unemployment Insurance Program
• Industrial Economy
• Interchangeable labor
• Cyclical layoff and hiring patterns
• High School diploma

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Job Training Begins

• 1962
• Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA)
  1962
• 1973
• Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)
• 1982
• Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)

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Workforce Investment Act, 1998

• Provide Workforce Investment Activities through
  statewide local workforce investment systems
• Increase employment
• Increase retention
• Increase earnings of participants
• Increase occupational skill

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Workforce Investment Act, 1998

• Streamline service delivery through One-Stop
  Career Centers
• Strengthen performance accountability
• Promote universal access to services
• Create business-led state and local boards

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Evolution Todays Workforce

• Knowledge-based economy needing specialized
  skills
• Most of the employment growth from 2008 to 2018
  will be in areas that require a college degree
• 20 of projected new jobs in Montana are expected
  to require a Bachelors degree or above
• One of the fastest projected areas of employment
  growth will be jobs that require an Associates
  degree or Vocational Award
• Jobs that require short-term on the job training
  are expected to constitute 36 of all the new
  jobs created in Montana between 2008 and 2018

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Knowledge Based-Economy
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Governor
State Workforce Investment Board
Admin Purposes
Department of Labor Industry
Business Standards Division
Unemployment Insurance Division
Workforce Services Division
Centralized Services Division
Employment Relations Division
Programs and Oversight
21st Century Workforce
Job Service Operations
Research And Analysis
SWIB Staff
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SWIB Staff

• Best Beginnings Advisory Council
• Montana Youth Restoration Partnership
• Healthcare Workforce Advisory Committee
• Montana Area Health Education Center Office of
  Rural Health Advisory Board
• Montana Youth Restoration Partnerships
• Governors Interagency Rapid Response Team
• College!Now
• Carl Perkins Career Pathways and Rigorous
  Programs of Study
• Personalized Employment Plan (PEP TALK) Career
  Pathway Tool
• Career Clusters Montana Big Sky Pathways
• Science, Technology, Engineering Math Montana
  Initiative

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Purpose of the SWIB

• Provide Policy Recommendations
• Address Workforce Development Issues
• Lead State Strategic Planning Process
• Create Performance Standards
• Coordination between Workforce Investment
  Economic Development

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Community Management Team

• CMT
• Provides feedback to and coordinates with the
  State Workforce Investment Board Youth Council
• Comprised of local businesses, Workforce
  Investment Act providers, community partners
  agencies

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Goals of the SWIB

1. Engage the workforce system in anticipation and
   responding to business current and emerging
   needs for skilled workers
2. Encourage alignment among workforce development,
   post secondary education, and economic
   development
3. Advance workforce development policies by
   providing recommendations to the Governor and
   other state leaders who support economic
   development efforts in Montana

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SWIB Membership

• Governor
• State Legislature
• Business
• Chief elected officials
• Labor organizations
• Youth Activities
• Delivery of WIA Activities
• Lead State Agency Officials

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Workforce Investment ActSWIB OVERSIGHT

• Adult, Youth, Dislocated Worker Employment
  Training Programs

Suzanne Ferguson, WIA Supervisor
406-438-3552 sferguson_at_mt.gov
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General OverviewDisplaced Workers Displaced
Homemakers
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SWIB Standing Committees

• Executive Committee
• May act for SWIB
• Implement strategic plan
• Track workgroups
• Provide leadership
• Drive provisions of critical workforce data
• Youth Council Committee
• Provide leadership
• Catalyst to connect youth with quality
  educational and employment opportunities
• WIA Committee
• Guide Strategic Plan
• Make decisions based on WIA rules regulations

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SWIB Committees, Cont.

• Life-Long Learning Committee
• Training education models that
• Provide lifelong learning opportunities
• Provide advancement
• Meet employers needs
• Sector Strategies Committee
• Develop understanding of interrelationships
  between business and workforce needs

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Youth Council Members(Ad Hoc)

• Required
• Appointed by the State Board Governor
• Specific membership requirements
• Responsibilities
• Inform full Board regarding Youth Workforce
  issues in Montana recommend youth policy
• Identify issues solutions for youth
  transitioning out of foster care or with
  incarcerated parents
• Coordinate with youth providers
• Infrastructure to support healthy components of
  society, such as school employment

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Expectations for Effective Board Members

• Stay in contact
• Please return phone calls and e-mails in a timely
  manner
• Attendance
• Please attend all board functions, excepting
  emergency situations
• Be prepared
• - Read board meeting materials
• Media
• Do refer all calls and solicitations to SWIB
  staff

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Expectations for Effective Board Members

• Notify Staff
• If you have a conflict of interest with business
  before the board. Please see our Conflict of
  Interest policy for more information
  http//swib.mt.gov/coipolicy.asp
• Ask Questions
• Do not hesitate to contact SWIB staff for any
  questions or assistance you may need. We are
  happy to help!

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Expectations for Effective Board Members
Conduct to Avoid

• Dont discuss Board business before it has been
  made public
• Do not engage in a private conversation with
  individuals who have business before the Board
• Dont take a position on an issue before the
  Board does
• Dont dispose of Board materials
• Dont meet without prior public notification

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Helpful Links For Board Members

• SWIB Website http//swib.mt.gov/
• SWIB Bylaws http//swib.mt.gov/documents/ByLaws.p
  df
• Upcoming Meetings http//swib.mt.gov/UpcomingMeet
  ings2.asp
• Reports Links http//swib.mt.gov/ReportsandLink
  s.asp
• Member Resources http//swib.mt.gov/policiesproce
  dures.asp
• Montana GED Now http//montanagednow.mt.gov/

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Accomplishments of the State Workforce Investment
Board

• SWIB Youth Council - Future Forged Initiative
  (Montana GED Now) Follow us on Facebook!!
• Financial support for innovative Workforce
  Development projects
• Partners with various organizations and groups
  applying for grants

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Montanas Two-Year Colleges
Flathead Valley
Comm. College
Daniels
MSU Northern
Glacier
Sheridan
Toole
Hill
Lincoln
Liberty
Valley
Blackfeet Comm. College
Flathead
Blaine
Roosevelt
Libby Center
Pondera
Phillips
Aaniih Nakoda College
Stone Child College
Fort Peck Comm. College
Chouteau
Richland
Teton
MSU Great
Falls COT
Lake
Sanders
McCone
Salish Kootenai College
Lewis and Clark
Dawson
Garfield
Cascade
Fergus
Petroleum
Dawson Comm.
College
Lewistown Center
Judith Basin
Mineral
Missoula
Prairie
UM Missoula COT
Miles Comm.
College
Meagher
Powell
Musselshell
Wheatland
Granite
Custer
Broadwater
Treasure
Fallon
Deer Lodge
Golden Valley
Little Big Horn College
Jefferson
Ravalli
Bitterroot College Program
Rosebud
Yellowstone
Sweet Grass
MT Tech COT
Silver Bow
Gallatin
Stillwater
MSU Billings COT
Carter
Chief Dull Knife College
Big Horn
Powder River
Park
Madison
Carbon
Beaverhead
UM Western
Tribal college Community College Affiliated with
MSU Affiliated with UM Extended campuses
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Workforce Regions
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Certified One-Stop Areas
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WIA Service Providers
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Questions?

• Leisa Smith, SWIB Director
• 406-444-1609
• lsmith_at_mt.gov
• Kali Wicks, SWIB Specialist
• 406-444-4480
• kwicks_at_mt.gov

Please visit our website at http//swib.mt.gov/