1. Dr. Rebecca Lake, Dean October 25, 2017 Harper College NCWE Conference
Collaborative Initiative: Ways WIOA and Community Colleges Can Work to Grow Registered Apprentices
Dr. Rebecca Lake, Dean October 25, 2017
Harper College NCWE Conference
Palatine, Illinois Salt Lake City, Utah

2. Topics Covered in Presentation:
1) The Win-Win-Win Opportunity of Apprenticeships 2) Colleges & Employers Working Collaboratively with apprenticeships 3) Overview of WIOA Regulations & Registered Apprenticeships from a College Perspective 4) Harper College Registered Apprenticeship programs 5) Working with Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership ( Harper’s area WorkNet Center)

4. The FY 16 ApprenticeshipUSA Initiative Features
$90 Million to Expand Registered Apprenticeship.
$9.5 million
Accelerator
Industry & Equity Partners
American Apprenticeship
State Expansion
$90 million
$30 million
$50.5 million
$175 million

5. What is a Registered Apprenticeship?
A registered program combines on-the-job training at a company plus related classroom instruction to prepare the apprentice for a high-demand career. Apprentices Earn a salary from their job while attending Harper College to Learn a specific career.

6. RA is a win-Win-Win Initiative
Employers looking to fill their skills gaps and talent pipeline needs
Students starting or changing their careers
Colleges seeking to fulfill their mission, grow enrollment and improve retention and completion rates.

7. Benefits for Companies
Fill specific company skills gap
“Grow your own” talent with mentor-lead OJT
Increase employee loyalty and reduce turnover
Diversify the workforce and reduce recruiting cost
Ensure “seasoned” experts pass on knowledge
Help put entry-level employees on a career path

8. Benefits for Apprentices
1. Guaranteed employment – Hired by company with wage and all benefits such as vacation & sick days 2. Zero Debt at Graduation – Employer pays for college as long as apprentice passes the courses 3. College course schedule coordinated with work schedule

9. Current Harper RA Cohorts
Manufacturing Cohorts 1 & 2
General Insurance Cohort 1

10. Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act
WIOA aims to support innovative strategies to keep pace with changing economic conditions and seeks to improve coordination between the primary federal programs that support employment services, workforce development, adult education and vocational rehabilitation activities

11. WIOA Overview
President Obama signed the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) into law on July 22, 2014
WIOA was a bipartisan, bicameral effort
WIOA revised and reauthorized the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), thus amending the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, the Wagner-Peyser Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
WIOA is authorized until 2020

12. Fosters System Alignment
WIOA promotes integration of the core programs into the workforce development system all present now in the One-Stops Core programs consist of: (1) the Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth formula programs Title I job programs for unemployed and underemployed; (2) the Adult Education and Literacy program Title II Community Colleges manage this and they are in the One-Stops; (3) the Wagner-Peyser Act employment services program Title III job skills programs for those in unemployment offices seeking a job; (4) Title IV of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act those with disabilities.

13. WIOA State Plan Requirement
States must submit a single, coordinated 4-year Unified Plan for core programs (working on it WIBs, Colleges, Economic Development Regions, employers, etc.)
In lieu of preparing multiple plans, a State may, but is not required to, submit a Combined State Plan incorporating programs under the Carl D. Perkins Act and/or other programs

14. WIOA Provision for Apprentices in Act
Integrate Registered Apprenticeship (RA) into workforce planning and policy
Promote work-based learning and use WIOA resources to support RA
Create new RA opportunities by focusing on services to employers
Support career pathways for youth

15. RA Provisions in WIOA Act
OPPORTUNITY
SECTION OF WIOA
RA as recognized post-secondary credential
Section 3(52)
RA on State Workforce Board
Section 101(b)(1)(C)(ii)(II)
RA on Local Workforce Board
Section 107(b)(2)(B)(ii)
RA on Eligible Training Provider List
Section 122(a)(2)(B) and (3)
Pre-apprenticeship as Youth program service
Section 129(c)(2)(C)(ii)
RA as career pathway for Job Corps
Section 141(1)(A)(ii) and Section 148(a)(2)(B)
Pre-apprenticeship/RA for YouthBuild
Section 171(c)(2)(A)(i)

16. State Plans & RAs
The WIOA State Plan provides the strategic framework for collaborative strategies, and states can use the plan as a roadmap for advancing Registered Apprenticeship (RA) under WIOA
Whether the State submitted a Unified State Plan or a Combined State Plan, there are strategic planning elements and operational planning elements, both of which include Registered Apprenticeship (RA)

17. New Board Member RA Representative
State and Local Board membership was recommended before and now required under WIOA
A representative who is a member of a labor organization or training director from a joint labor-mgt apprenticeship program or, if no joint program exists, a representative from an apprenticeship program

18. Funding RAs: Individual Training Accounts
Title 1, RA sponsors can use ITA funds to support educational portion (RTI) of the RA program found on statewide list of eligible providers (ETL) Individuals in receipt of ITAs may also receive supportive services including books, supplies, child care, transportation, tools and uniforms RA program sponsors are automatically eligible to be ETPs and are required to provide only minimal information in order to be placed on the ETPL.

19. Funding RAs: On the Job Training Dollars
Title 1, OJT provides reimbursements to employers to help compensate for the costs associated with skills upgrade training for newly hired employees and the lost production of current employees providing the training (including management staff).
OJT employers may receive up to 50% reimbursement of the wage rate (in certain circumstances up to 75%) of OJT trainees to help defray personnel training costs.

20. Funding RAs: Incumbent Worker Dollars
Title 1, Incumbent Worker training designed to: a) meet the needs of an employer (or group of employers) b) obtain skills necessary to retain employment c) avert potential layoffs of employees Note: if individual works at company 6 month or more does not need income eligibility requirement and therefore is an incumbent worker

21. 5 Registered Apprenticeship Programs
Currently, programs are AAS degrees:
1. General Insurance (2 yr program) Industrial Maintenance Mechanic (3 yr program) CNC Precision Machining (3 yr program) Supply Chain Management (2 yr program)
5. Cyber Security (C E with CompTIA credentials)

22. Harper Working with area WIOA
October 2015, Harper awarded American Apprenticeship Initiative (AAI) $2.5 million grant With Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership a contract $125,000 to work strategy for sharing names of employer (submit monthly Activity Report) making both parties accountable to meet the numbers and the SOW) Harper has FT person at the WorkNet Center for Potential apprentices Scheduled Meetings: 1 X month Face-to-Face meeting

23. HARD WORK: Getting Started
1st Year: WIOA staff needed to understand a little about apprenticeships and make the current funding categores fit the multiple RA models 2. 1st Year: Harper needed to understand a little about WIOA

24. HARD WORK: Success and not so Much
Success: a) with Worknet Center staff wrote a new combined application form both can use (in 2 parts) st part for basic info; nd part for WIOA info b) Tabe Test identified as Illiois barrier … worked with Dept Commerce & Econimic Opportuntity to successful remove it & insert language “CC placement test” No funds used yet ….. not so much a success

25. Veterans are Priority
Thoughts: How could this established priority improve WIOAs work with the RA programs
Meaning: no income eligibility requirements
no residency requirements (employers and apprentices live and work everywhere)

26. Income Eligibility for Illinois
Family of 1 can’t make more than about $13,000/annually
Family 4 can’t make more than about $37,000/annually
WIOA wants to only provide services to those that are deserving of services and therefore ……… created these BIG barriers in title I
Confusing: ITA and OJT dollars are for people looking for work……… But if you are accepted into a RA program you are not THEN not looking for work. So you are not eligible for ITA and OJT dollars

27. Cost of Harper’s RA Programs
Cost: $3,000 per semester Adv. Manufacturing $2,500 per semester non-traditional programs
Six semesters of course work towards AAS degree
Includes items such as tuition, books, fees, mentor training, tutoring, and coaching
Registration of apprentices to facilitate receipt of a national RA credential at completion of program

28. Current Number of Apprentices
RA Enrollment Fall 2017 and Spring Industrial Maintenance Mechanic and CNC Precision Machining 4 Supply Chain 52 General Insurance 87 Total number

29. Current Number of Companies
Fall 2017 and Spring Advanced Manufacturing companies 4 Supply Chain 2 Insurance companies 28 Total number

30. Additional RA Programs Coming to Harper
New RA programs must be driven by companies – with enough industry support to drive development of a new apprenticeship program.
Developing programs in these fields:
a) Banking and Finance b) Sales and Sales Merchandizing c) Print Graphics d) Private Security e) Metal Fabrication

31. Registered Apprenticeship Website
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