SOUTH BAY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD - 2011

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PROJECT OPERATOR LEVEL— PROGRAM Contractual: Core Services ($6,762,012) All participants (100 %) in the project must receive at least one unduplicated Core Service from a participating One -Stop career center as a means to reconnect them to the workforce as quickly as possible in the most cost effective manner. As such, every participant is expected to enroll in Core Services funded by this grant. This strategy is consistent with the sequence of services requirement of the WIA in which participants must receive at least one Core Service prior to enrollment into Intensive Services or training. Intensive Services ($10,143,017) SBWIB examined five recent program years (PY 05 -06 to 09 -10) to identify the proportion of DW Formula (including ARRA) and 25% Additional Assistance participants that received at least one Intensive Service from a local One -Stop career center during this period. The number enrolled in Intensive Services was 2,141 out of a total of 2,239 enrollments. The lowest percentage of participants receiving at least one Intensive Service was 86.48% while the high was 100 %; the mid -hinge was 93.8% The reason that individuals enroll in Intensive Services is that those who are inclined to enroll in a federal J ob training program do so because they tend to have limited marketable skills, cannot easily find new work, and are in need of in -depth career services and assistance in finding a job. The majority of job seekers who are able to find work on a self- directed basis or with modest staff assistance out of Core Services are not likely candidates for enrollment in a special dislocated worker project; job seekers who do are the targets of this project. As noted below, the job seekers targeted for participation have expressed a need for retraining in almost every instance, which can only occur after receipt of one or more Intensive Services. For this reason, all participants are expected to enroll in Intensive Services. According to the WIA Final Rules, "Intensive Services are listed in WIA section 134(d)(3)(C). The list in the Act is not all - inclusive and other intensive services, such as out -of -area job search assistance, literacy activities related to basic workforce readiness, relocation assistance, internships, and work experience may be provided based on an assessment or individual employment plan." Further, the WIA Final Rules indicate that "work experience is a planned, structured learning experience that takes place in a workplace for a limited period of time. Work experience may be paid or unpaid, as appropriate. A work experience workplace may be in the private, for profit sector, the nonprofit sector, or the public sector. Labor standards apply in any work experience where an employe %mployer relationship, as defined by the Fair Labor Standards Act, exists." On a limited basis, paid work experience and paid internship activities will be arranged as short -term Intensive Service strategies to connect workers to new industries and occupations and, ultimately, full -time, unsubsidized employment. Such activities will be arranged on the basis that successful conclusion of a paid experience assignment or internship leads to unsubsidized employment. These career development strategies serve multiple purposes. They: 1) introduce and orient workers to new industries and work environments; 2) help participants develop new workplace skills and refine transferable skills for new occupations; and 3) provide modest income in cases of severe economic need. See Attachment F for policies and procedures on paid work experience and internships.