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b. 12. C. The State Plan Must Provide a Description of the Role of Postsecondary Career and Technical Education in the One-stop Career Center Delivery System Established by Title I of WIOA.
Current Narrative:
Postsecondary career and technical education has a critical role in the one-stop career center delivery system established by Title I of WIOA. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) are the primary eligible training providers. Mechanisms for providing training include: integration of participants into existing coursework; delivery through grant awards/partnerships such as the Pathways to Prosperity grant projects, and evolution of the FastTRAC initiatives; and providing customized delivery if/as numbers of participates allow.
In these initial years of the WIOA grant for Minnesota, local consortium will work with the regional workforce centers to pro-actively align education and training needs with the workforce development needs. Regional plans, due to the State in May, 2016, will identify three primary career pathway needs. In general, the goals of the state -to have a healthy economy where all Minnesotans have-- or are on a path to -- meaningful employment and a family-sustaining wage, and where all employers are able to fill jobs in demand- will be achieved by continuing to build a robust career pathway system driven by :
- Business Engagement
- Community Engagement
- Customer-Centered Design
- Funding and Resource Needs
- Policy and System Alignment and
- System Management.
These six elements align with the Perkins Rigorous Programs of Study criteria so the participation in the one-stop career center system will enhance the local consortia work.