1. WIOA: Opening CTE Doors for New Customers
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 | Radisson Blu Hotel, Bloomington, MN
10:45 am – 11:40 am | Lakes Ballroom C (holds 91)
Todd Wagner, State Adult Basic Education Director

2. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)
WIOA was passed in July It received bipartisan Congressional support. The final rules to implement this new act were released on June 30, 2016, nearly two years after the legislation passed. The previous legislation was the Workforce Investment Act that was passed in 1998.

3. WIOA: Six Core Programs
Workforce Development Activities
1) Adult Program 2) Dislocated Worker Program 3) Youth Program
Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA)
4) Adult Education Program
Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933
5) Employment Services Program
Rehabilitation Act of 1973
6) Vocational Rehabilitation Program
WIOA: Six Core Programs
There are actually five titles (the fifth title is general provisions) but the six core programs of WIOA are under these four titles. These are the four titles that must be included in the state plan. Each state must submit a WIOA state plan to the federal government

4. Career and technical education programs
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program
Employment and Training programs under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Work programs authorized under section 6(o) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008
Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers programs
Jobs for Veterans State Grants Program
Unemployment Insurance programs
Senior Community Service Employment program (SCSEP)
Employment and training activities carried out by the Department of Housing and Urban Development
Community Services Block Grant Reintegration of Ex- Offenders program
If any of these programs are added to the unified state plan it then becomes a combined plan
The items in bold are currently in Minnesota’s state plan.

5. State Plan Regional Plans NEW! Local Plans
WIOA : State Plan
There is a link to Minnesota’s state plan in this slide. If you would like to read it. It has been described as a “plan to plan”.

6. WIOA: Regional Plan http://www.gwdc.org/wioa/planning/index.html
Can you find yourself on this map? Are you doing work in your area that aligns with industry?

7. WIOA: Local Plans http://www.gwdc.org/wioa/planning/index.html

8. Where is there opportunity for new customers?
AREAS OF ALIGNMENT BETWEEN CTE AND WIOA
Planning
Labor Market Information
Career Pathways
Integrated Education and Training
Employment Engagement
Work-based Learning
Performance Measures
Shared Data
Where is there opportunity for new customers?
The handout “ Aligned by Design” goes into more detail on areas of collaboration.

9. Successful efforts to integrate career and technical education programs of study with Career Pathways Systems requires a commitment from multiple partners to working together toward greater transparency, alignment, and systemic change. The Integrated Career Pathways Model below shows how a comprehensive Career Pathways System can serve both high school age youth, as well as adults, and promote collaboration, alignment, and cross-system development of structured pathways into and through postsecondary credential programs.
Career Pathways

10. This model was developed as part of the Advancing Career and Technical Education in State and Local Career Pathways Systems project sponsored by OCTAE.

11. Leverage points for CTE and ABE to work together
State statute (in your folders) 124D.02 School Board Powers: Enrollment Subd.2 Secondary school programs…
WIOA …the Act does not provide us with the authority to restrict the source of funding for the workforce training component of integrated education and training, nor does it provide us with the authority to limit the amount of funds that can be used for occupational training.
Ability-to-Benefit
Leverage points for CTE and ABE to work together

12. Southwest Adult Basic Education Website http://www. southwestabe

14. More information is included on the website.
Please read the executive summary white paper that is included in your packet.

15. Roseville Adult Learning Center https://www.isd623.org/node/166

16. SouthWest Metro Intermediate District 288 www.swmetro.k12.mn.us
Cindy Walters
Director of Alternative Programs
SouthWest Metro 
Intermediate District 288
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SouthWest Metro Intermediate District

17. Todd Wagner Julie Dincau Contacts
Adult Basic Education State Director Minnesota Department of Education 1500 Highway 36 West Roseville, MN
Adult Basic Education Transitions Specialist Minnesota Department of Education 1500 Highway West Roseville, MN