Kentucky Association for Economic Development has shared one for the presentations from the TVA 2015 ED Best Practices conference. Discover more about WIOA and work ready communities.

1. WIOA and Work Ready
Communities
Beth A. Brinly and
Robert Curry
502.564.0372

2. Agenda
• Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
– Key Changes
– Economic Development Tools
– Opportunities
• Work Ready Communities
– Process
– Performance
– Status

3. Key WIOA Changes

5. Helping Employers Find
Workers with Necessary Skills
Contributes to economic growth and business expansion
by ensuring the workforce system is job-driven –
matching employers with skilled individuals
State and Local Boards will:
• Promote the use of industry and sector partnerships
• Support activities to meet the workforce needs of local/regional employers
• Use funds for strategies that meet employers’ workforce needs, including incumbent
worker training, registered apprenticeship, transitional jobs, on-the-job training and
customized training
Employers are incentivized to meet their workforce needs and offer opportunities for
workers to learn with increased reimbursement rates for on-the-job and customized
training

6. Economic Development Tools
• Increased Partnerships
• Work Based Learning
• Integrated Education and Training

7. Increased Partnerships
• High Impact Workforce Investment Boards
• Sector Strategies
• Industry Partnerships
• Career Pathways
• Entrepreneurship

8. Work Based Learning
• Apprenticeship
• Earn and Learn Opportunities
• High School Outreach
• Supporting access to real-world education and
training
– Community Based Transition and Supported Employment
– Shadowing, Mentoring, Internships
– OJT, Incumbent Worker & Customized Training

9. Integrated Education and Training
• Accelerating Opportunity Kentucky
• National Career Readiness Certificate
• Eligible Training Provider List
• Employability Skills

10. State, Regional and Local Planning
Collective Impact
Common Agenda  Planning and implementation grants
 Engage partners from multiple sectors
Shared Measurement  Data sharing agreements
 Accountability for shared outcomes
Mutually Reinforcing Activities  Blended funding streams
 Allowances for tailoring to local conditions
Continuous Communication  Documenting the process of collaboration
 Allowing for adjustment in plans to support
emergence
Backbone Support  Funding for backbones
 Grant criteria that require defined backbone
functions

12. Levels of Certification

13. What is the Kentucky Work
Ready Community Program?
1. Framework
2. Process
3. Certification
4. Economic Development Tool

14. Framework
• High School Graduation Rates
• National Career Readiness Certificates
• Community Commitment
• Educational Attainment/GED®
• Soft Skills Development
• Internet Availability

15. The Process
• Organize locally
• Submit Letter of Intent
• Prepare application
• Panel review
• County presentation
• Recommendation
• Kentucky WIB certification

16. The Certification
• Demonstrates to current employers a
commitment to providing a pipeline of
highly skilled worker
• Demonstrates to prospective employers
that same commitment
• Demonstrates a sense of community pride

17. Economic Development Tool
• Business Retention
• Expansions
• New Locations

18. Statewide Performance*
• Kentucky Work Ready Communities 18
• Kentucky Work Ready Communities in Progress 38
• Letters of Intent 31
*As of 07/22/15