Narrative: IV.

The state of Minnesota has a long standing history of activities being coordinated among the State Combine Plan partners. This is the primary reason for the robust participation of the required WIOA titles. Engagement of the core required titles began in January, 2015 with a broad review of the law and comment submission.

During the summer of 2015 we began to expand the conversation to other WIOA required titles. These conversations explored the details of their required planning elements and the relationship to WIOA and alignment with the State’s emerging vision for a Career Pathway System. Commitments to the Combined State Plan began in the fall of 2015 and program administrators began to participate in a series of individual and group meetings.

The overall state strategy approach was reviewed and adoption recommended by the GWDB Operations Committee in December of 2015, and shared with Combined State Plan partners, with input used to refine the high level overview of our four year plan and serve as the basis for participating in the WIOA National Convening event, for which Minnesota sent 18 representatives.

Monthly meetings with the state level administrators, GWDB members and local workforce development board representatives throughout the first year of the implementation of the WIOA plan. These meetings will most likely move to quarterly meetings in the subsequent years of the four year plan with a series of focused meeting to consider modifications for years 3 and 4.