Partnerships Abound: Collaboration in a Creative Spirit Partnerships Abound: Collaboration in a Creative Spirit

Session #205 Goals: Describe and explore a regional model of integrated partnerships, lead by a business services team, driven by labor market information, and addressing the education and employment needs of the growing Long Island economy. Explore possible next steps for other regions seeking to expand their network partnerships.

Workforce New York Long Island Business Services Team Progress Report September, 2006 Workforce New York Long Island Business Services Team Progress Report September, 2006

Introduction The Workforce New York Long Island Business Services Team is guided by a Steering Committee, comprised of the three Long Island local workforce investment boards (LWIBs), the New York State Department of Labor Division of Employment Services (NYSDOL/DoES), the NYSDOL Division of Research and Statistics (R&S) and the Long Island Regional Adult Education Network (LI- RAEN). On behalf of the Team, the Steering Committee conducts coordinated strategic planning designed to conceive, develop and implement business services and workforce/economic development initiatives for the benefit of the Long Island Region.

Member Organizations  Abilities, Inc.  Alliance for Defense Diversification in Peacetime Transition, Inc.  City of Long Beach Office of Youth and Family Services  Economic Opportunity Commission of Nassau County, Inc.  Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey  Hauppauge Industrial Association  HempsteadWorks  i-Park Bio-tech and Life Sciences Center  Long Island Association  Long Island Forum for Technology  Long Island Life Sciences Initiatives  Long Island – Regional Adult Education Network  Long Island Works Coalition, Inc.  Nassau Community College  National Council On The Aging, Inc.  New York State Department of Labor  New York State Education Department of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities  New York State Empire State Development Corporation  Stony Brook Research Foundation  Suffolk County Community College  Suffolk County Department of Labor  Town of Hempstead Department of Occupational Resources  Town of Oyster Bay Department of Intergovernmental Affairs Division of Employment and Training  The Workforce Partnership

Vision Our strategic, public-private partnership will continually improve the quality of the Long Island workforce, business climate and economy. Through regional coordination, we will:  Create an enhanced business perception of the publicly funded workforce investment system  Provide multiple access points where businesses can obtain coordinated assistance in recruiting, training and developing workers  Maintain a customer-friendly process for leveraging available resources from a variety of funding streams in response to business, employment, community and economic development needs

Mission  Develop a strategic, on-going approach to the delivery of business services that combines resources, is non-duplicative and remains flexible in its ability to respond to the needs of the business customer  Plan, create and implement business services initiatives that help businesses to hire, train, educate, upgrade and retain skilled workers  Collaborate to identify and access sources of grant funds that will assist businesses to develop our local workforce and strengthen our economy  Project, assess, analyze, and rapidly respond to changing needs of businesses, with input from the business customer, to ensure maximization of all available resources of the workforce investment system  Measure, evaluate and continually improve our services and products for businesses, using customer feedback and other standardized performance data

Description: The expanding scope and critical need for workforce information and economic analysis is key to developing and maintaining a competitive workforce. States and regional economic areas are working to leverage assets, address challenges, and create talent development strategies. Effectively developing, accessing, and analyzing the wide array of data necessary to accomplish this in a globally competitive environment…… … requires new strategies and methodologies and a transformation within the workforce investment system about how we see our role in collaboration with other strategic partners.

Major private sector job groups on Long Island. Natural resources, mining and construction 61,600 Manufacturing 86,500 Wholesale trade 70,500 Retail trade 162,300 Transportation, warehousing, utilities 37,200 Information 29,300 Financial activities 80,900 Professional and business services 153,100 Health care and social assistance 166,300 Educational services 29,900 Leisure and hospitality 86,900 Other services 51,700 Government 198,200 The December unemployment rate declined to 4.0 percent, down from 4.2 percent a year ago and the lowest rate for December since 2001

Long Island’s Key Growth Industries Defense Homeland Security Biosciences Information Technology Health Care Retail Travel and Tourism

LIFT Long Island Forum for Technology NYSTAR Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) NYSTAR®'s designated Regional Technology Development Center for Long Island

LIFT Estimates $4-6 Billion in contract work over 5 years starting in 2004 LIFT Forecasts a Backlog of $9.4 Billion from Defense Firms on Long Island Forecast that LI Defense Firms will spend $3 Billion on Long Island

There is a broadly held, erroneous perception that Jobs in manufacturing are a dead end, not very interesting career. Career Mapping in Aerospace and advanced Manufacturing seeks to identify and publicize good jobs and ladders to further success. Also to help companies better understand and identify the skill and organization structure required by a competitive manufacturing company. There is a vision that transparency in human capital markets will help employees and businesses maximize their value.

What are the jobs? What are the industry changes?

“… growth of output per worker that offers the greatest potential….to..enable future retirees to maintain their expected standard of living ……. for a country already on the cutting edge of technology to maintain this pace for a protracted period into the future would be without modern precedent. One policy…to maintain high levels of productivity growth is …. upgrading of primary and secondary school education in the United States.” Alan Greenspan

A Knowledge Based Economy

One source of competitive advantage is to diffuse throughout a company.. the unique, proprietary knowledge.. about customers, competitors, products, and techniques… that resides in the minds of its employees.

Creating Transparency in our Labor/Human Capital Markets – Empowering Mobility Raising Expectations

Urgent Need to Create Mobility in our Workforce Especially for the Second and Third Tier Student

Erasing the White and Blue Collar Divide Life-Long Learning Casts College Bound into a Whole New Paradigm

Median age in Nassau County is 38.5 Median age in all of United States is 35.3 The population 65+ Nassau County – 15% United States %

Nassau residents over five who speak a language other than English at home – 23.2% For United States as a whole % Speak English less than well in Nassau - 9.0%

Teenagers Face Busy Customer Service Environment

What Will Long Island’s Future Look Like?

Targeted Aerospace Industry Clusters  Engineering Design  Engineering Services  Manufacturing (Mechatronics)  Commodities/Special Processes  Information Technology

The partnerships and work in career mapping also helped leverage a recent grant for the region in advanced manufacturing.

The regional business services team has also implemented a grant for career mapping in biotechnology

And is supporting an initiative for a skills center in retail trade

The partnerships and work in career mapping also helped leverage a recent grant for the region in advanced manufacturing.

Progress (continued)  The Team has developed or supported applications for funding from the following sources: United States Department of Commerce Technology Opportunities Program (TOPS) Grant; United States Department of Labor (USDOL) High Growth Job Training Grants, Community- Based Job Training Grants; Limited English and Hispanic Worker Initiative Grants; Building Skills in New York State (BUSINYS) Grants; WIA Statewide Skilled Manufacturing Resource Training (SMART) Grants; Empire Zones; Perkins III Grants, the Nassau County Tech Prep Consortium Grant; the BioPartners Emergent Worker Training Program Federal Earmark, etc.

Long Island Regional Workforce Analysis “A number of industries have received priority from the local workforce system. Some of these industries are outlined below.  While the shortage of nurses is well known, the health care field also faces many other shortages. It will see additional challenges as the industry incorporates new bioscience technologies, information technologies, and the integration of information records, while also working to contain costs.  The related biosciences sector includes a diverse array of companies, products and services. Long Island has one of the largest biotech industry clusters in New York State and one of the largest consumer health care markets in the country.

Long Island Regional Workforce Analysis (continued)  Defense-related and other advanced manufacturing companies face worker shortages in a number of occupations. These include engineers, computer software specialists, machinists, sheet metal workers and others.  Information technology (IT) has gone through a boom and bust cycle for both companies and individuals. Not only have market conditions improved, but IT is now key to the competitiveness and quality of service for nearly all businesses today.  Homeland security concerns are creating increased demand for products, services and people. While its local employment impact has been smaller than originally expected, it remains a strategically important sector for the region.

Long Island Regional Workforce Analysis (continued)  Reversing earlier trends, employment and pay levels in manufacturing have recently begun to increase. Much of the increase in wages is due to a shift in industry employment toward higher-skill, knowledge-based positions that incorporate intense use of computers. Providing the increasingly high-skilled workforce needed for these new jobs is the next challenge for the local economy and its workforce system partners.” Gary Huth, Labor Market Analyst, New York State Department of Labor, Long Island Region

Mapping Career Ladders in Aerospace Project Findings Under a Workforce New York Grant, local consultants have conducted a Mapping Career Ladders in Aerospace Project on behalf of the Workforce New York Long Island Business Services Team (described below). Based upon their research, The Alliance for Defense Diversification in Peacetime Transition, Inc. (ADDAPT) and Stony Brook Research Foundation have submitted the findings listed below:  “There is an immediate need to inform educators of the state-of-the-art workforce demands of employers in the aerospace industry

Mapping Career Ladders in Aerospace Project Findings (continued)  Employers in this industry have consistently found that the vast majority of new employees and incumbent workers lack the mathematics and science foundation to enter and advance along career ladders in this field  Major manufacturers are no longer buying just component parts or just machined components, they are buying major subassemblies  Small manufacturers must grow to be “mini” prime contractors or be acquired by larger companies

The Workforce New York Long Island Business Services Team Offers  Assessment of the needs of business and marshalling of resources in response to those needs  Recruitment of new workers, including free space for on-site interviewing at our Career Centers  Assistance in accessing grant funds to train new and current employees  Development of On-The-Job Training and Customized Training programs  Information regarding tax credits and financial incentives  Rapid response aversion

New York State Department of Labor Request For Applications (RFA) Number 37-L Building Skills in New York State (BUSINYS)  The New York State Department of Labor has issued Request For Applications (RFA) Number 37-L, entitled “Building Skills in New York State (BUSINYS).” The purpose of this Request for Applications (RFA) is to support employer strategies and local efforts for lifelong learning for the development of the incumbent (employed) worker by providing funds for upgrading the skills of those workers.

New York State Department of Labor Request For Applications (RFA) Number 37-L Building Skills in New York State (BUSINYS) (continued)  Businesses throughout New York State need to ensure that the skills of their workers do not deteriorate or become “stale” in an ever more competitive and technologically complex global economy. Workforce development has become a critical component of every business plan.  BUSINYS uses Workforce Investment Act (WIA) monies to address employer demands for skilled workers. The program will fund projects that solve workforce problems by addressing identified skilled worker shortages within an industry or within a single employer's establishment, and promoting skills upgrading for incumbent workers.

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