1. Helping Out of School Youth Get Back on Track
Request For Proposals
Bidders Conference

2. Who is the Lehigh Valley Workforce Board?
We sometimes refer to ourselves as the LVWIB or LVWDB
We administer workforce development programs in the Lehigh Valley
We are all about
Employment ~ Jobs
Training

3. What Is CareerForce?

4. LVWDB Funding Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014.
Federal funds awarded to every state and every local workforce area in the country
Three funding streams
Adult
Dislocated Workers
Youth

5. This Request for Proposals
Is all about youth
More specifically – out of school youth

6. What is an Out of School Youth?
A young person at least 17 years old who has not reached their 24th Birthday and
Is a resident of the Lehigh Valley
They live in the Lehigh or Northampton County,
and
If the young person is male
They registered for selective service

7. AND They are a high school drop out
Over the age of mandatory attendance, or
Within the age of compulsory attendance but haven’t attended school for the last high school quarter

8. OR They are not a drop out, and
They are not enrolled in any school, and
They are economically Disadvantaged, and
Basic Skills Deficient or
Require additional assistance to enter or complete an educational program or to secure or hold employment

9. OR They are not a drop out
They are not enrolled in any school, and they are
Homeless, or
A runaway, or
A youth with any connection to the foster care system, or
Pregnant or
A parent, or
An ex-offender, including any contact with the criminal justice system such as an arrest, or
Disabled

10. How Can you or Your organization make a difference
NOW THAT WE KNOW WHO WE ARE TARGETING FOR SERVICES
How Can you or Your organization make a difference

11. Option 1 – The Navigator
A way for LVWDB to support organizations working with out of school youth
LVWDB can provide additional resources to
Fund a case manager / counselor and lower the caseload
Provide funds for WIOA activities that lead to the youth’s employment or entry into post-secondary education.

12. What is a Navigator
The intent is to leverage funds and provide the youth with
Intensive “round the clock” holistic services
Comprehensive guidance and counseling
Supplement activities to result in the desired WIOA outcomes for the youth.

13. The Navigator Read All of Part One
Complete the Navigator Option Application.
It is very short
It has its own evaluation instrument

14. Option2 – The Vendor
WIOA has identified services that help make youth programs successful
Not all youth need all the services
9 of the 14 elements are embedded in the Navigator Option
We have grouped the other services which LVWDB would like to have delivered in combination.
 LVWDB would like to purchase each grouping on a one by one or as needed basis as determined by a youth’s case manager

15. The Vendor Services

16. The Vendor Option Read All of Part One
Complete the Vendor Option Application.
It is very short
It has its own evaluation instrument

17. Option 3 Service to a Class Sized Group of Youth
By providing a combination of the WIOA Youth Elements
Programs proposed should be based on through Research and/or Replication of successful models
Objective should be to  meet the WIOA objectives as determined by the federal and Commonwealth performance measures

18. Option 3 - Program Design
Enrollment into post-secondary school/training/ GED resulting in
The attainment of a recognized post-secondary credential and
Placement into unsubsidized employment.
 Training may be
Class sized occupational skills training in a demand occupation
Through an individual training account
GED
LVWDB will NOT pay for GED which is provided through the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act
LVWDB will consider costs of tutoring and work experience
Youth must be within a year of attaining their GED
Must be placed or go on to post secondary school
Employability skills and placement
All youth must receive a paid work experience tied to their career pathway developed by proposer or an on the job training
LVWDB will pay for the wages and workers compensation.
See more details in the RFP

19. Option 3
Read part 1
Complete the large application

20. Let’s Review the RFP
Let’ s begin with the instructions …

21. WIOA Performance
If enrolled in a GED program or in high school, completion of high school/GED, attainment of the high school credential and enrollment into post-secondary school or placement into unsubsidized employment or the military; or
If enrolled in post-secondary school, completion of post-secondary school, graduation/attainment of the credential and placement into unsubsidized employment; or
If enrolled in a job search/placement program, completion of pre-employment skills training and placement into unsubsidized employment;
AND
For youth placed in employment, attainment of the wage rate to be set by the Commonwealth for youth; and
For youth placed in employment attainment of the employer satisfaction measure when it is established by the Commonwealth.