Located in:
- 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—
- b. State Strategic Vision and Goals
II. b. 4. Assessment
Current Narrative:
The State Workforce Development Board (SWDB) and its Operating Committee will assess and monitor the effectiveness of Vermont’s workforce development system in addressing the State’s vision and goals. The SWDB will carry out its assessment by requiring the core partners to provide frequent updates on their programs’ progress in implementing the specific strategies for realizing Vermont’s vision and goals. The required frequency and the content of these updates is determined by the SWDB, taking into account any potential duplication with other performance reporting obligations for programs, given that Vermont is a single-area state and the SWDB also functions as the Local WDB. The SWDB may develop and maintain a reporting dashboard tool to optimize the collection and analysis of the data.
The VDOL’s Economic and Labor Market Information Division will provide labor market information to the SWDB, so that they may evaluate the larger and longer-term impacts of the plan. On a smaller, more immediate scale, a customer-centered survey will be developed, administered, and collected so that the effectiveness of the one-stop delivery system from the perspective of its participants may be taken into account. The Committees that carry out the monitoring will include business representatives in order to ensure that the business and industry community’s perspective is also reflected in the assessment.
Based on these various reports and updates, the SWDB will identify opportunities for improvement, and convene partners and stakeholders to share information and develop strategies to remedy the identified challenges. The core partners will then realign their approaches to implementing the State’s vision and goals, and in turn contribute to ameliorating the overall effectiveness of Vermont’s workforce development system.
The actual measures to assess the effectiveness of Vermont’s workforce system will be established by the SWDB in order to address the State’s strategic vision to create a workforce development system that is a highly visible and accessible network of programs and strategies designed to increase employment, retention, and earnings for all Vermonters. This system will meet the skill requirements of employers, enhance the productivity, competitiveness and life circumstances for all Vermonters, and result in an improved, diverse, and quality economy.