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Title: The PA Experience


1
The PA Experience
  • The Road to Common Measures

2
Why Common Measures?
  • Rendell Administrations vision of integrating
    workforce development
  • Deputy Secretary Sandi Vito named to head all
    workforce development programs in the
    Commonwealth
  • The myth of the 1.3 billion in workforce
    development funds

3
Why Common Measures?
  • Quantitative Measures
  • Methods applied to 28 workforce programs in PA
  • Includes programs not under DOL/ETA governance
  • Integral part of workforce program reform
  • Performance Management Plan
  • Resource Mapping
  • Industry Clusters
  • Industry Partnerships

4
Why Common Measures?
  • High-Priority Occupations
  • High-Performance WIBs
  • Comprehensive Workforce Development System
  • Common Measures follows in this strategy of
    integrating and applying similar standards to all
    workforce development programs

5
Birth of the Idea
  • Common Measures should be implemented to move
    toward a vision, not to escape from the 17 WIA
    measures
  • USDOL began to advance idea of Common Measures
    when TEGL 15-03 was issued in December 2003

6
Process of Getting Partner Buy-In
  • Get right internal team
  • Bring right people to table Education is key
  • Communicate, communicate, communicate!
  • Lots of meetings, discussions, informational
  • e-mails

7
Working With USDOL
  • Communicate, communicate, communicate!
  • Recognize varied and diverse partners at the
    federal level
  • No single repository of information at the
    federal level
  • Lots of back and forth with requests for more
    information

8
Working With USDOL
  • Delays in getting answers (on both sides)
  • Was over a year from PAs request for a waiver
    until federal approval another five months until
    it was effective
  • Challenge of negotiating performance levels with
    no benchmarks available

9
Working With USDOL
  • Gave up eligibility for incentives for period of
    waiver
  • Minimal financial support for system and policy
    conversion

10
Changes That Were Required
  • Biggest changes in youth
  • All positive outcomes based on serving
    out-of-school youth
  • Change in serving OSY and older youth
  • Retaining youth for longer periods of time

11
Changes That Were Required
  • Biggest changes in youth
  • Restrictive guidance on credential/certificate
    imposed under Common Measures
  • WIBs cannot set policy anymore
  • Lost workforce readiness certificate big hit!
  • Literacy/numeracy changes
  • System changes in tracking participation in
    partner programs

12
Changes That Were Required
  • Single entrance/exit concept
  • Labor Exchange exit date and measures based on
    exit
  • New information required for Labor Exchange
    participants at time of participation

13
System Changes
  • Common Measures Activity Log a comprehensive
    view of all programs tracked under Common
    Measures and tracked in the PA CareerLink
  • Identifies first and last service received in
    each program covered under the common measures
  • Identifies the date of first and last service
    received in a program
  • Identifies beginning and ending of the reporting
    cycle

14
System Changes
  • Participant Searches modified the participant
    searches to allow staff to work with participants
    in programs covered under Common Measures
  • Will Exit in the Next 29 Days or Less
  • Identify participants based on program
    participation and status of participation

15
System Changes
  • Exclusions from Performance
  • WIA added additional exclusions of family care
    and relocated to a mandated residential program
    (youth only)
  • Labor Exchange added the ability to add
    Exclusions to Labor Exchange Services

16
System Changes
  • Assessment Testing added the ability to record
    pre and post-testing results
  • Based on functional area selected and test score
    entered system will determine educational
    functioning level and grade level for both pre
    and post-tests

17
System Changes
  • Significant changes for Labor Exchange
  • Modified service detail screens to provide for
    estimation of exit dates which did not previously
    apply
  • Added a planned gap in services functionality
    for Labor Exchange/ES Participation program
  • Added exclusions to Labor Exchange services
  • Modified ES participation so it is only added
    automatically as the result of a value added
    service

18
Training
  • Extensive training is necessary
  • 4 sessions in June 05
  • 1 high-level
  • 3 regional sessions for front-line staff
  • Numerous e-mail updates

19
Training
  • Quarterly discussion at LWIA meetings
  • Conference call follow-up after six months
  • Draft WIIN

20
Was It Worth It?
  • Yes our Workforce Development report to the PA
    Legislature is much more coherent
  • We better understand real outcomes or programs
    and can make comparisons
  • Other benefits will become clearer over time

21
Contact Information
  • Sandi Vito Deputy Secretary for Workforce
    Development
  • Phone 717-705-2630
  • E-mail svito_at_state.pa.us
  • Ali Cleveland Director, LI Policy Office
  • Phone 717-772-0740
  • E-mail acleveland_at_state.pa.us

22
Contact Information
  • Cindy Gnech Chief, Program Management Section,
    Bureau of Workforce Development Partnership
  • Phone 717-787-0304
  • E-mail cgnech_at_state.pa.us
  • Keith Bailey Workforce Development Research
    Supervisor, Center for Workforce Information and
    Analysis
  • Phone 717-783-0706
  • E-mail kebailey_at_state.pa.us
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