Workforce Development Partnerships Zachary Morris Energy

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Workforce Development PartnershipsZachary Morris
Energy Skilled Trades Business Service Manager
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About Workforce Development

• 600 Regionally controlled, Workforce Investment
  Boards throughout U.S. with public/private-sector
  oversight
• 25 Michigan Works! organizations throughout
  Michigan overseeing 100 Service Centers
• Provide training resources and job placement to
  jobseekers
• Provide staffing/HR services to employers

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About

• We are a 501 C-3, non-profit workforce
  development organization, serving Berrien, Cass
  and Van Buren counties in Southwest Michigan
• OUR MISSION
• To provide a skilled workforce to meet the needs
  of employers
• WHO WE SERVE
• 2,000 employers with H.R. and staffing services
• 34,000 jobseekers annually (up from 20,000)
• 2,361 are youth (ages 14-21)

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History of WorkforceDevelopment Boards

• Mixture of government and non-government entities
• Government-sponsored activities historically
  focused on unemployed and economically
  disadvantaged
• First labor programs in U.S. started during Great
  Depression
• Federal Manpower Development Training Act of 1962
  
• First nation-wide publicly provided training
  program
• Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) of
  1970s
• Introduced local advisory councils
• Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) of 1982
• Focused training programs on employer-demanded
  skills
• Increased private sector participation on
  advisory councils to ensure local business needs

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History of Workforce Development

• Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act
  of 1996
• Federal block grants to fund income support for
  low-income households
• Head of household must find work within specified
  time
• Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998
• Emphasized job-search assistance and
  job-readiness training with goal of increasing
  employment, retention and earnings
• Focus changed in 1990s from Welfare to Work,
  to employer-driven skill development

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Industry Sector Approach

• Tri-county labor market projections indicate
  labor need in 4 main industries
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Healthcare
• Hospitality
• Energy/Skilled Trades
• All training resources are allocated to train the
  labor pool for jobs within these four industries

Career Guide
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Business Services

• Department dedicated solely to serving employers
  by providing
• H.R. and staffing services
• labor market intelligence
• Incumbent Worker Training grants (IWTs)
• Regional Skills Alliances (RSAs)

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Jobseeker Programs and Services

• Skill level and ability assessment
• Training opportunities (workshops, etc.)
• Job search and placement assistance
• Career counseling
• Labor market information
• Adult, dislocated workers youth
• Employment services
• Adult education
• Post-secondary vocational education
• Vocational rehabilitation
• Welfare to Work

• NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance
• Veterans Employment and Training Programs
• Community Services Block Grant
• Employment and training programs administered by
  the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
  Development
• Unemployment Insurance
• Title V of the Older American Act
• Trade Adjustment Assistance

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Steps Ahead

• Determine needs
• More skilled workers? Retrain existing workers?
  New equipment? Technology? Access to labor
  market trends?
• Form partnerships
• Work with local workforce development
  organization, industry peers, local training
  providers, community organizations and key
  stakeholders
• Support funding and training that develops skills
  of emerging workforce

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Questions?

• miworks.org
• 1.800.533.5800