1. ETA’s Vision and Guidance: Using your RES Funds
April 16, 2009
2:00-4:00 PM EDT

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4. Speakers
Grace Kilbane, Administrator, Region 1
Gay Gilbert, Administrator, Office of Workforce Investment

5. Context for the ReEmployment Initiative
Grace Kilbane

6. Context for the ReEmployment Initiative
Significant economic and workforce challenges
New Administration
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 6

7. Purpose & Goals Reemployment effort begun Summer 2008 to: Re-focus
Connect
Understand
Engage

8. Delivering on this Purpose
Reemployment Works! Website:
Reemployment Webinars
National Reemployment Summit
Regional Summits
Additional RES Webinars
Your questions and shared practices will inform

9. Delivering on this Purpose
WPRS improvement grants:
23 states
Bibliography of all reemployment research & evaluations (Paper)
6 regional focus groups (Webinar)
REA investments (PPT)
Download this: Resources Page (Bibliography)

10. Noted Challenges

11. Program Alignment & Integration
Horizontal and vertical alignment and integration among all reemployment partners
Limits
Silos
Links
Hoops
Connection

12. Resource Alignment & Integration
Improve Alignment
Utilize partners
Develop Common Systems
Expand Capacity
Target Resources
Map resources

13. Technology & Information-Sharing
Data, management information, reporting, and case management systems
Multiple systems: data entry and re-entry
Capacity can be improved with updated technology

14. Risk of Lost Opportunity
Overwhelming demands for services today plus implementing stimulus provisions squeeze out any time for future focus

15. Addressing Barriers
Despite today’s overwhelming challenges, we know states are responding creatively

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17. Recovery Act Funds: Guidance for ReEmployment Services
Gay Gilbert

18. ETA Vision for RES Funds
Use RES funds for intensive, staff-assisted services for UI claimants
Build stronger connection to UI
RES can bridge the gap between services
Connectivity to training
Integrated service delivery
Link to other ARRA-funded activities
Innovate!

19. ETA Guidance on ARRA Funds
TEGL recommends 4 promising strategies:
Collaborate
ES, UI, WIA, LMI, TAA, NEG
Provide a full array of services
Target services using profiling Scores and Statistical Modeling
Upgrade Technology

20. Solutions: Seven Themes for Reemployment Services

21. Seven Themes for ReEmployment Services
Early Warning Networks and Rapid Response
Actionable Workforce Data and Information
Unemployment Insurance System Integration
Skills Assessments
Skills Transferability
Flexible Service Delivery
Invest in Technology

22. Early Warning Networks and Rapid Response
Theme 1:
Early Warning Networks and Rapid Response

23. Early Warning Networks and Rapid Response
“Real-time” information
Early assessment of impacted workers
Widespread sharing of workforce and economic information and trends
Work-sharing and “direct reemployment” strategies

24. Early Rapid Response engagement
Early Warning Networks and Rapid Response
Early Rapid Response engagement
Fully integrated and aligned with local dislocated worker and TAA strategies
“Direct reemployment” approaches
Seamless transition from closing employer to growing employer
Work Sharing programs in 18 states (Research Brief)

25. Early Warning Networks and Rapid Response Examples
Pennsylvania: Strategic Early Warning Network (Web site) (PPT)
Coping with Layoffs: Current State Strategies for Rapid Response (Research Brief)

26. Actionable Workforce Data and Information
Theme 2:
Actionable Workforce Data and Information

27. Translating workforce information (Webinar)
Actionable Workforce Data and Information
“Real time”
Translating workforce information (Webinar)
Accessible, widely- shared, and usable 27

28. Select innovations for expansion and/or further testing
Actionable Workforce Data and Information
Select innovations for expansion and/or further testing
e.g. NASWA Direct Employer Association: Rapid Reemployment Initiative (PPT)
ARRA-created jobs should be posted in state job banks and advertised among UI claimants

29. Actionable Workforce Data and Information: Examples
Washington uses Local Employment Dynamics and the OnTheMap tools (PPT)
The Florida LMI shop combines a host of materials to suggest reemployment opportunities and solutions (PPT)
The Buffalo area of New York matches the work- ready talent pool offered by UI claimants with the background and skills needed by businesses in the market for new workers (PPT)
Maine and Massachusetts have enhanced their ability to respond to large dislocations by strengthening regional economic information (PPT)

30. Unemployment Insurance System Integration
Theme 3:
Unemployment Insurance System Integration

31. Unemployment Insurance System Integration
Strong service connections
Using tools to develop plans
Data- and information- sharing

32. Unemployment Insurance System Integration
Update Profiling Model
Use profiling score and duration as a tool for targeting reemployment services (PPT) (Webinar)
UI Integration can help establish the “triage” system necessary to achieve flexible service delivery
Provide information on profiled claimants to Wagner-Peyser and WIA Staff

33. Unemployment Insurance System Integration: Examples
Oregon has aligned the assets of workforce partners to support its reemployment activities and has shown improved performance outcomes as a result (PPT)
Oklahoma has improved the UI/One Stop connection by leveraging limited funding and staff resources to connect more unemployed workers to the full continuum of workforce system services (PPT)
Nevada has been operating an RES program with state funding and has developed effective partnerships between UI and WIA (PPT)
Wisconsin ran a pilot program to strengthen the connection between UI and One-Stops (Research Brief)

34. Theme 4:
Skills Assessment

35. Skills Assessments Comprehensive Triage  Customized Common
Competency-based
Virtually-based, self- service assessment options

36. Skills Assessments Reemployment Eligibility Assessments
Connecting UI claimants to reemployment services (PPT)
“AutoCoder” and data tools (PPT)
Skill matching and transferability
Enhanced worker profiling (PPT) (Webinar)
Update profiling models
Profiling to connect claimants to services they need most
Profiling based on employer need

37. Skills Assessments: Resources
ETA’s Electronic Tools and assessments (Webinar)
Testing & Assessment: A Guide to Good Practices for Workforce Investment Professionals (ETA TEN)
Statistical targeting using profiling (PPT) (Webinar)

38. Skills Assessments: Examples
Maryland and Oklahoma have engaged multiple partners to play a role in conducting assessments of unemployed workers, from worker profiling to WIA- funded skills assessments (OK PPT)
New York also stresses assessment, and uses profiling scores to triage UI claimants (NY PPT)

39. Skills Transferability
Theme 5:
Skills Transferability

40. Skills Transferability40

41. Skills Transferability
Incorporation of career pathway exploration and career advancement planning
Training approaches for quickly bridging skill gaps

42. Skills Transferability: Examples
Widespread use of skills transferability tools
Indiana uses TORQ to prepare customized responses to major dislocations (PPT)
Maine uses data extracted from UI claims files, O*Net, and Occupational Employment Statistics and Projections to better understand the skills of its unemployed workers. (PPT)

43. Flexible Service Delivery
Theme 6:

44. Flexible Service Delivery!

45. Flexible Service Delivery
Focus on providing services to UI claimants
Comprehensive and flexible options
Scale capacity using partners, networks, and virtual delivery mechanisms
Assessment results  Customized services

46. Flexible Service Delivery
Flexible training options:
“Earn while you learn”
On-the-job training
Registered Apprenticeships
Short-term, modular training that leads to “stackable” credentials
Online learning
Entrepreneurship and self-employment assistance for unemployed individuals (SEA website)
Portable worker employment and training “profiles”
Similar to portable personal health records

47. Flexible Service Delivery
Investment in ongoing development and cross-training of reemployment staff
Accountable processes and systems for funds and results
Example: California’s Alameda County WIB creates opportunities for adults to gain postsecondary credentials through its Bay Area Career Pathways program (PPT)

48. Theme 7:
Invest in Technology

49. Invest in Technology Improve integration
Upgrade automated one-stop systems
Private-sector tools

50. Invest in Technology: Examples
Update profiling models (PPT) (Webinar)
Front-Line Decision Making Tools (PPT) (Webinar)
Develop Online One-Stops
NYC’s virtual talent-retention center
Pennsylvania’s online one-stop
North Carolina’s web-based service delivery process (PPT)
Missouri and other states use AutoCoder (PPT)
Florida’s automated resume review
Private sector tools, such as TORQ (PPT) or EMSI Job Finder

51. ReEmployment Works Community of Practice
Live demonstration of ReEmployment Community of Practice

52. Next Steps and Opportunities

53. Next Steps
Completing and sharing results from applied reemployment research
Ongoing dissemination of information via webinar
Collaborating with strategic partners to identify RES best practices
Other technical assistance activities and resources
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54. Tell us! How is your state/local area planning to use its RES funds?
i.e. Invest heavily in new technology, provide more staff-assisted intensive services, develop new programs for customers
What would you like to hear about in future webinars? Specifically, what about RES? ARRA?
i.e. More information on what other states/local areas are doing, promising practices, available technology

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