INFORMATIONAL BULLETINS (PY 2002)
DRAFT 5 YEAR PLAN MODIFICATION (3rd YEAR)
Dear Local Workforce Investment Board partner:
We are submitting the draft Third-Year Local Plan Modification PY 2002-03 for Alameda County Workforce Investment Area’s Strategic Five-Year Plan for your review and comment before our final submission to the State at the end of the month.
Each year the Local Workforce Investment Boards are required to submit modifications to the original plan that may include the submission of required elements missing from previous plans, reports on significant changes in local economic conditions, changes in leadership structure and changes in program strategies to address performance goals.
Highlights of our third-year modifications are:
§ Updated statistics and information on the local Labor Market
§ Changes to the Local Board Structure
§ Updated Budget Summaries
For your convenience, we have included the full original Strategic Five-Year Plan With All Supplements with the Second-Year Modifications and the current Third-Year Modifications noted within the body of the plan. You may contact Carl J. Pascual, Management Analyst at 510-259-3831 if you have any questions.
Please send your comments, referencing the section and page number of the original plan, in writing to be received by our office no later than the close of business on Monday, September 9th, 2002 to:
Third-Year Modification Plan Comments
Alameda County Workforce Investment Board
Attn: Carl J. Pascual
24100 Amador St., 6th Floor
Hayward, CA 9454-1203
You may also email your comments with the subject title “Third-Year Modification Plan Comments” to c"cjpasqua@co.alameda.ca.us"
We look forward to your invaluable feedback.
ALAMEDA COUNTY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA
STRATEGIC FIVE-YEAR PLAN/
With All Supplements
And Second Year & Third Year DRAFT Modifications included
PLEASE NOTE: Third Year changes are in BOLD and underlined.
Third Year deletions are BOLD and stricken-through.
FOR
TITLE I of the
WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT of 1998
Approved – Interim Workforce Investment Board
March 24, 2000
Alameda County Interim Workforce Investment Board
22225 Foothill Boulevard
Hayward, CA 94541
Phone: (510) 728-7870 // FAX (510) 728-7861
E-Mail: DChen@co.alameda.ca.us
STRATEGIC FIVE-YEAR LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT PLAN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LOCAL AREA: Alameda County Workforce Investment Area
PAGE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1
I. PLAN DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 3
II. LOCAL VISION AND GOALS 6
III. LABOR MARKET ANALYSIS 9
IV. LEADERSHIP 22
V. LOCAL ONE-STOP SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEM 24
VI. YOUTH ACTIVITIES 30
VII. ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS 34
VIII. ASSURANCES 44
IX. PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION DESIGNEE
and PLAN SIGNATURES 46
ATTACHMENTS –
§ CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY
§ PARTICIPANT PLAN SUMMARIES
§ PERFORMANCE INDICATOR CHART
§ BUDGET PLAN SUMMARIES
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Strategic Five-Year Local Workforce Investment Plan for the Alameda County Service Area presents the basic framework for the development of a fully integrated workforce development system to serve the employment and economic needs of the County’s workforce and employer communities. Building on this framework, the Workforce Investment Board (WIB) will move to implement the local vision of a workforce development system that will create 100% employment in the East Bay.
Alameda County’s Workforce Investment Board will oversee the workforce development strategies, policies and performance outcomes of the local system and will establish services that provide individuals with information necessary to make informed consumer choices regarding their careers and the steps necessary to achieve their employment goals. All services will be aimed at helping individuals manage their own careers and professional development. In concert with these activities, the WIB will work closely with local and regional economic development organizations and with the local employer community to ensure that the services of the workforce development system are supporting the needs of the community’s economic development system and meeting the workforce needs of employers.
The Alameda County Workforce Investment Area covers all of Alameda County outside of the City of Oakland. Located on the east side of San Francisco Bay there are 13 cities and several unincorporated areas in the County’s service area which covers approximately 670 square miles. The service area’s 2000 population is estimated to be just over 1,000,000, with a workforce of 737,500 and an unemployment rate that is just below 3.0%.
The County’s workforce development system is based within the regional, two-county EASTBAY Works One-Stop Career Center system. EASTBAY Works is a collaboration of the four workforce service delivery areas covering Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. The Alameda County, Contra Costa County, City of Oakland and City of Richmond Private Industry Councils initiated the regional One-Stop Career Center system in 1996 with the participation of the State’s Employment Development Department, four Community College Districts, County economic development agencies, and the two County Offices of Education. As of January 2000, EASTBAY Works includes more than 100 agencies cooperating in the delivery of services to meet the needs of job seekers and employers throughout the two-county region.
Currently, there are six One-Stop Career Centers in the Alameda County workforce area. Operating these centers are key partners of the Workforce Investment Act: the Hayward site is operated by the PIC Department of the County’s Social Services Agency, and the local Employment Development Department Job Services office is co-located in this facility; the Fremont site is operated by the Employment Development Department and located in City of Fremont facilities adjacent to the South County CalWORKs center; the Newark site is operated by the Fremont-Newark Community College District; the Pleasanton site is operated by the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District; the Alameda site is operated by the College of Alameda in collaboration with the City of Alameda; and the Berkeley site is operated by the City of Berkeley. Each center has a variety of community partners, including community-based organizations, local education agencies, support services agencies and faith-based organizations, which are assisting in the delivery of services.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY continued
Utilizing the framework of this local plan and the solid foundation of the area’s One-Stop Career Center system, the Workforce Investment Board will move to strengthen existing partnerships, incorporate additional partners, and expand available resources throughout the workforce investment system. The WIB will secure the active participation of the private sector employers in the strategic planning for the further development of the two-county workforce investment system over the next five years. The WIB will engage the chief elected officials, county and city government agencies, and local education systems, along with the private sector, economic development entities, the WIA partners, and community agencies in the development and quality improvement of the economic and workforce systems.
Through these efforts the WIB will strategically plan for the use of workforce resources, establish performance outcome levels for the area’s workforce programs and provide quality oversight of the One-Stop operators. Further, the WIB will move the system towards a comprehensive integration of services from mandated partners, including the cross-training of staff and the sharing of information among partner programs. The WIB will seek to ensure the ongoing expansion of resource development, continued and updated technical support, and the improvement of workflow processes, in order to continually improve the delivery of services to the system’s customers.
A local Youth Council is being established that will act as an advocate in the community for youth and for youth participation in the local workforce investment system, and as an advisory committee on youth strategies to the WIB. There will be improved linkages between academic and occupational learning and other youth development activities in the area. Youth will be provided opportunities to achieve career goals and to enhance their ability to compete in the labor market. Resources will be awarded to youth organizations that have a proven track record, which contain the basic program design elements in the Workforce Investment Act, and which are described within the youth program section of the strategic five-year plan.
Quality principles will guide the changes and improvement of the workforce investment system throughout the process that is framed within the local five-year plan. This includes the development of effective leadership, the creation of action plans and strategic objectives, customer-focused design of products and service delivery, use of performance data and information, employee training and development, and a focus on bottom-line results for the business community.
Over the next five years the Alameda County Workforce Investment Board will expand the local workforce development system within the context of the seven key principles of the Act. That is, the One-Stop Centers will provide universal access to core services; the system will deliver customer choice through individual training accounts and a consumer report card; there will be performance accountability throughout the system and flexibility within the system; youth programs will be community driven; and, the WIB will promote the leadership of the private-sector for the system’s strategic planning and development. At the end of five years, the local workforce development system will be a more efficient, user friendly, customer focused, results driven system serving a broader range of clients than the system that exists today. Employers and business will perceive real value in the system’s services and in the system’s ability to provide skilled workers in a significantly greater capacity than that of the current system.
I. PLAN DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
A. Role of Chief Elected Official
The Chief Local Elected Officials (CLEO) became involved with the development of the local plan in June of 1999 when the Board of Supervisors filed their intent for Alameda County, excluding the City of Oakland, to become a designated Workforce Investment Area. Shortly after, a Joint Transition/Nominations Committee, composed of the Private Industry Council Executive Committee and Board of Supervisor’s staff, was established to outline the development of a new governing board and policymaking body to oversee Workforce Investment Act (WIA) activities. They have participated in meetings to discuss transitional issues, strategic planning, and goal setting. The CLEO has a strong role in ensuring that all appropriate parties are engaged in this collaborative process.
B. Responsible Body or Board
The Alameda County Private Industry Council (PIC) has oversight for the development of this local plan. The County Board of Supervisors approved the PIC as the “transitional oversight body”.
C. Public Comment Process
Community input forum notices were mailed to over nine hundred agencies (private, public, profit, non-profit) throughout Alameda County and posted on the County’s website. The SDA held four community forums to discuss and elicit feedback on the implementation of the Workforce Investment Act. Two forums focused on Youth Programs (held January 31, 2000), and two on Adult Programs (held February 7, 2000).
Copies of the DRAFT Local Workforce Investment Plan were disseminated for public comment on February 18, 2000. The draft was available on the Social Services Agency website: http:\\www.co.alameda.ca.us/assistance. Opportunities to comment on the final plan were provided over a thirty day period with comments due by March 20, 2000. The following dates were established by the SDA for final review of the plan:
- March 24, 2000 Review and approval of the Plan by Interim WIB
- March 28, 2000 Board of Supervisors review and approval of the Plan
- March 30, 2000 Submittal of Local WIA Plan to the State
D. Consideration of Comments on the Local Plan
Staff will review and distribute all comments received to the interim Workforce Investment Board, the chief elected officials, and other groups that were part of the deliberative process. The comments will be made a part of the discussion during the review, Public Hearing session, and acceptance of the Plan by the interim WIB at their meeting on March 24, 2000.
E. Public Access to Plan through Hearings, News Media, and the Internet
The availability of the local plan for review and comment by the community was announced at public forums held on January 31 and February 7, 2000, via an announcement of the 30-day comment period mailed to over 900 agencies and individuals, and through a public information notice placed in local newspapers. In addition, information on the 30-day comment period was posted on the Internet sites of the Alameda County Social Services Agency and the EASTBAY Works One-Stop Career Center system.
The DRAFT of the Plan was posted on the Alameda County Social Services Agency website for the 30-day comment period of February 18 through March 20, 2000 allowing access for community review of the Plan. Copies of the Plan were placed at each of the six EASTBAY Works One-Stop Career Centers located in Alameda County providing additional public access for review of the Plan. Where circumstances did not allow an agency or an individual to access the Plan through one of these methods, PIC administrative staff provided an alternative method.
F. Other Organizations Involved in Plan Development
The organizations involved in the development of the local plan include:
· State Employment Development Department
· State Department of Vocational Rehabilitation
· City of Berkeley Health and Human Services Department
· Mission Valley Regional Occupational Program
· Ohlone College / Fremont-Newark Community College District
· College of Alameda / Peralta Community College District
· Alameda County Office of Education
· Economic Development Alliance for Business (EDAB)
· ACCESS One-Stop Managers from: Berkeley, Newark, Hayward, Alameda, Fremont, Pleasanton
· Center for Independent Living
· CalWORKs / Alameda County Social Services Agency
· Private Industry Council staff
· Chabot/Las Positas Community College District
For the Youth services, the following agencies participated and/or gave feedback:
· City of Fremont
· Mission Valley ROP
· San Lorenzo USD
· Ple
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