EASTCONN ADULT SERVICES

Working With Your Workforce Board

Richard Tariff, Director, Adult ProgramsSuzanne Cimochowski, Assistant Director, Adult

Programs

Agenda

History of EASTCONN’s workforce board partnerships

The Key Funding Program Comparison Example Our Programs What Can You Do? Questions

History 1998Welfare to Work program contract 1999TANF case management contract 1999WIA Out of School Youth contract 2006Collaborative WIA Out of School

Youth contract 2006Collaborative JFES Intensive contract 2006Subcontractor for TANF case

management contract 2009Collaborative Education Refresher

contract at CTWorks East

History cont’d 2009 cont’d 21st Century Customer Service

workshopARRA Summer Youth Program

2010Collaborative Basic Skills Math workshops at CTWorks East

2011Collaborative workshops at CTWorks East:

Surviving Tough TimesFoundations of AlgebraAdult Learners Guide to College SuccessFoundations of Reading and Writing

History cont’d 2012CT Conservation Corp

2013JFES I-BEST Pilot with EWIB and Workforce Alliance

2013Storm Sandy National Emergency Grant Subsidized Employment

The Key

The key to successfully working with the WIB is to realize that their needs are very different from our traditional adult education funders – local towns and the SDE.

The Key From EWIB RFP:

SELECTION OF SERVICE PROVIDERS The primary consideration in selecting entities to

deliver services shall be the demonstrated effectiveness of that entity in delivering COMPARABLE services based on past performance. Performance factors shall include attainment of performance goals, costs, quality of training, and participant target groups. No bidder shall receive funds that duplicate services already available in the Eastern CT Workforce Investment Area.

What Does This Mean

This means we need to look at how we can meet their needs, not how we can fit what we are already doing into what they want.

And it means they are not going to give us additional money for programs that we already offer.

Funding Their funding often comes from the

Department of Labor and not the Department of Education.

DOL focus is employment SDE focus is education

Not mutually exclusive, but different goals and outcomes

What is the Difference?

ComparisonProgram Mandated GED WIA Out of School

YouthStaff Teacher Teacher

Full time case manager

Schedule School Year Year roundEligibility 17 and older

residents17 – 21 with income and additional qualifying barrier requirements

Outcomes GED GED and Employment portfolioEmployment, training or military by 1st quarter after exitCredential by 3rd quarter after exit

Follow up after exit None Quarterly for three quarters after exit

Database CARS CARS and CTWBS

What is different? Workforce Board funding can serve both those with

and without a high school diploma Stipends Workforce Board funding often is for a very specific

population (i.e. JFES, WIA, age sepcific) Minimum hours/week for some programs It is possible to combine Workforce Board funding

with other funding (i.e. SDE) to serve more adults (i.e. those with a diploma)

They often get new funds during the year (i.e. JFES I-BEST). Once you are their contractor, they can award you new programming without an RFQ process

More Differences Contracts, not grants Often have reduction in funding midyear Some programs’ classes can’t be

cancelled Workshops can be cancelled if minimum

enrollment isn’t met. If workshop is cancelled, we don’t get paid!

Recruitment Some have annual monitoring

What Can You Do?

Attend your workforce board’s board meetings

Visit their website regularly

Get on their distribution email list

Meet with your CTWorks Business Services team member

Find out who else is already collaborating with them

OUR PROGRAMSWIA OSY

OUR PROGRAMSJFESIntensive

OUR PROGRAMSNationalEmergencyGrant(Storm Sandy)

OUR PROGRAMSAirline Trail

CT WORKS WORKSHOPS21ST CenturyCustomerService

CT WORKS WORKSHOPSEducationRefresher

CT WORKS WORKSHOPSBasic SkillsMath

CT WORKS WORKSHOPSSurvivingToughTimes

JFES I-BESTEWIB

JFES I-BESTWorkforceAlliance

Working with Your Workforce Board

Questions?

Contact information:

Rich TariffDirector of Adult Programs860-455-1562rtariff@eastconn.org

Suzanne CimochowskiAssistant Director of Adult Programs860-455-1596scimochowski@eastconn.org