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Plan: Alabama PYs 2016-2017
Combined Plan C

Section: WIOA State Plan Common Elements

Narrative: II. b. 2.

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  • II. Strategic Elements

    The Unified or Combined State Plan must include a Strategic Planning Elements section that analyzes the State’s current economic environment and identifies the State’s overall vision for its workforce development system. The required elements in this section allow the State to develop data-driven goals for preparing an educated and skilled workforce and to identify successful strategies for aligning workforce development programs. Unless otherwise noted, all Strategic Planning Elements apply to Combined State Plan partner programs included in the plan as well as to core programs.

    • b. State Strategic Vision and Goals

      The Unified or Combined State Plan must include the State’s strategic vision and goals for developing its workforce and meeting employer needs in order to support economic growth and economic self-sufficiency. This must include—

II. b. 2. Goals

Describe the goals for achieving this vision based on the above analysis of the State’s economic conditions, workforce, and workforce development activities. This must include—

Current Narrative:

I.(b)(2) Goals

The Alabama Workforce Council has recommended and the Governor and Legislature have wholly adopted these recommendations as Alabama’s goals:

  1. 1. The State of Alabama will implement a Workforce System based on the Governor’s Economic Development Strategic Plan (Accelerate Alabama 2.0) which is the second part of a two part plan to maintain the economic development momentum enjoyed by Alabama over the last several years.
  2. 2. Provide a longitudinal data system as an integral part of the new Workforce System.
  3. 3. Develop and implement a strong network of empowered Regional Workforce Councils that will play a central role in bridging business needs with a talent supply chain.
  4. 4. Implement a streamlined funding system that enables each supply point to excel at meeting business needs and needs of citizens already in or preparing to be in the Alabama workforce.
  5. 5. Create or identify streamlined funding channels for training with clear performance metrics.
  6. 6. Develop and support a statewide education and training resource system that enables each resource to excel at meeting business needs effectively.

Goals for preparing an educated and skilled workforce in Alabama include the following:

  1. 1. To align and consolidate the programs and activities of the Community College system and Regional Workforce Councils with the state’s vision and goals.
  2. 2. To align the activities and programs of colleges, universities, and training agencies with the Accelerate Alabama 2.0 plan’s three main tenets––Recruitment, Retention and Renewal.
  3. 3. To ensure that all programs have strategies to serve individuals with barriers to employment. (The state has a very strong Department of Rehabilitation Services that works with many training and education programs. Our goal is to increase awareness of solutions for these individuals to be vertically integrated into all workforce programs.)

Goals for meeting the skilled workforce needs of employers in Alabama include the following:

  1. 1. To implement a robust Regional Workforce Council System that provides direct feedback to education programs (Community and Technical College System, the K–12 Career Tech System, etc.) and to the Department of Commerce WIOA training providers.
  2. 2. To align the activities and programs of local Workforce Investment Boards with activities and programs the state Regional Workforce Council system.
  3. 3. To develop public/private partnerships that provide direct engagement between the public and private entities to increase capacity for meeting employers’ workforce needs.

Alabama’s core workforce development programs and WIOA partner programs are gathering and analyzing data on performance indicators to report for the 2014–2015 year. All programs will reach agreement with the Secretary of Labor in conjunction with the Secretary of Education on state adjusted levels of performance for the indicators for each of the first two years of this plan. To effect an orderly transition to the performance accountability system in Section 116 of the WIOA, the Departments will use the transition authority under WIOA Section 503(a) to designate certain primary indicators of performance as “baseline” indicators in the first plan submission. Alabama is committed to collecting and reporting on all indicators as required by WIOA for current and future years using the reporting system prescribed.