Located in:
- Program-Specific Requirements for Wagner-Peyser Program (Employment Services)
All Program-Specific Requirements provided for the WIOA core programs in this section must be addressed for either a Unified or Combined State Plan.
e. 6. C. Data Assessment
Review the previous four years Wagner-Peyser data reports on performance. Note whether the State has been meeting its goals to provide MSFWs quantitatively proportionate services as compared to non-MSFWs. If it has not met these goals, explain why the State believes such goals were not met and how the State intends to improve its provision of services in order to meet such goals.
Current Narrative:
Data Assessment: Over the last four years, the State focused on meeting goals to provide quantitatively proportionate and qualitatively equivalent services to MSFW’s. Numbers of MSFW’s registered in the Wagner Peyser labor exchange system was remarkedly below planned goals. However, the services provided were qualitatively equivalent to the services of non-MSFW’s. Farmworkers served through outreach were primarily migrant workers arriving and departing to the next harvest in Maine or in another state. Analysis of the online self-registration process yielded a lack of systems checks where registrants identify as a seasonal of migrant farmworker. This impacted the actual number of workers identifying as farmworkers, particularly seasonal workers who more frequently incorporate the American Job Center and the use of the labor exchange system in their employment search. The SMA has worked with America’s Job Link Alliance to simplify and clarify farmworker identification requirements in the self-registration process of the Maine JobLink system to accurately capture the number of farmworkers receiving services from the one-stop system network.