Top | 10 Quality Principles of Rapid Response
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Rapid Response is challenging, rewarding and critical to providing on-demand workforce transition services. This session is designed to deliver the core skills and fundamental knowledge needed to be an effective rapid responder. Session materials are based on the 10 Principles of Rapid Response. The session will illustrate the principles as the foundation of Rapid Response design and their role in effective strategic planning and effective deployment of Rapid Response.
Presenters:
- Shawna Harper
State of Alaska
Rapid Response and TAA Program Coordinator
Department of Labor and Workforce Development
- Rob Mills
UI Special Programs Coordinator
WA Employment Security Department
Session:
D
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Top | Another Natural Disaster will Strike - Are you ready?
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In the days following a natural disaster, local operations are disrupted while needs increase. Are you ready? For most of us we will never be totally ready and many of us will have varying levels of readiness. This session will briefly focus on a general discussion on what can be expected after a disaster and more importantly what steps can we start to undertake to reduce the impact in the future through the introduction of a public / private process that can support those in need on a streamlined process. The structure will be a roundtable discussions following a presentation by a public private panel focusing on models for creating a national response to major workforce emergency, (yes this session will be only focused on the workforce aspect of the emergency).
Presenters:
- Annette Summers
Executive Director
ACF North America
Session:
B
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Top | Becoming a Key Component of your Region's Economic Development Strategy
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Based upon the concept of regional economic development (WIRED), this session will discuss the important role Rapid Response should play as a component of the region's strategies for economic development.
Presenters:
- Patti Castro
Assistant Director
Alameda County Workforce Investment Board
- Scott Sheely (Tuesday Presenter)
Executive Director
Workforce Investment Board of Lancaster County
- Craig Holloman (Thursday Presenter)
Program Coordinator
West Kentucky Workforce Investment Board
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Top | Benefits of Public-Private Partnerships
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Roundtable discussion on partnership benefits, challenges, tips and tricks. This session builds on the partnership sessions focused on Outplacement industry that we have conducted over the past two years.
Presenters:
- Ken Messina
Rapid Response Coordinator
MA Division of Career Services
- Annette Summers
Executive Director
ACF North America
Session:
D
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Top | BRAC: Economic Development Strategies
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BRAC: Beyond the Basics - This workshop will illustrate how approaches to Base Realignment and Closing events can model the new themes of a transformed Rapid Response system. Two of the states that have been in the vanguard of proactive, economic development responses to BRAC ? Alaska and Maine ? will describe the approaches they designed and actions they have taken in both growth situations and base closings. Alaska viewed BRAC as an opportunity to get a more nuanced scan of the local and regional economies that will be impacted by closings and by growth and to use that information to support local economic development strategies. Maine has been one of the most proactive states in engineering a demand-driven strategy to BRAC layoffs and in addressing the forces likely to be associated with growth.
Moderators:
- June Sekera
Workforce Learning Strategies
Presenters:
- John Dorrer
Director of Labor Market Information
Maine Dept. of Labor
- Shawna Harper
TAA & Rapid Response Program Coordinator
Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development
Session:
C
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Top | Community Colleges and Economic Development: A Bridge to High-Growth Industries
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Community colleges are frequently a critical partner with Rapid Response in helping train dislocated workers to enter high-growth industries. But just as critical is the role of community colleges in the entire economic development planning process as a region transitions from declining to high-growth industries. In this panel, hear directly from community college officials about their perspectives, innovative training models for dislocated workers, and the ways you can approach education institutions for mutual partnership. Understanding how to engage with this pivotal regional ally will help you to forge opportunities for workers within the context of a high-growth economic development strategy.
Moderators:
- Russ Hamm
Workforce Development Consultant
League for Innovation
Presenters:
- Cathy Wiebel
Director
Eastern Iowa Community College
- Bob Cole
Executive Director of Resource Development
Columbia Gorge Community College
- Michael Smeltzer
Executive Director
Manufacturers Association of South Central Pennsylvania
Session:
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Top | Employer Outreach: Speaking the Language of Business
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Every employer has specific needs in workforce development; but there are a number of needs that are universally applicable to all business. Come find out what these are, and learn how to effectively talk to your business customers in language that they can understand.
Presenters:
- Richard D. Maher
CEO
Maher & Maher
Session:
C
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Top | HR Executives Speak Up: Dislocated Workers, Economic Development, and Building Lasting Partnerships
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Hear directly from human resource executives: How has Rapid Response for other companies been a recruitment resource for them? How can you approach them in partnership? What are their top do’s-and biggest don’ts? As Rapid Response becomes more and more focused on proactive economic development, layoff aversion strategies and broader employer outreach loom ever larger in the Rapid Response toolbox. This panel of Fortune 500 companies will give you a unique insider perspective that will make sure you are on the right track.
Moderators:
- Brent Weil
Business Relations Group
USDOL Employment and Training Administration
Presenters:
- Stephen M. Wing
Director Government Programs
CVS Regional Learning Center
- Bojan Cubela
Workforce Development Regional Program Manager - Team Lead
Manpower Inc.
- Jack Copeland
Enterprise Recruiting
Schneider National
Session:
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Top | Industry Focus: Automotive and Manufacturing
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The American automotive manufacturing industry is experiencing significant transitions. Some regions of the country are responding to announcements of plant closures, while auto manufacturing is expanding in other areas. The workforce investment system, along with its strategic partners in the education system and economic development, and Manufacturing Extension Partnership system are critical resources to companies and workers in addressing skills gaps during these transitions. This workshop will discuss aspects of these transitions including implications of changes in technology, globalization, layoffs in the automotive manufacturing industry, and strategies for serving these companies and their workers.
Moderators:
- Linda Fowler
National Institutes for Standards and Technology (NIST)
Business Relations Group (BRG)
Presenters:
- Kristin Dziczek
Senior Project Manager Center for Automotive Research (CAR)
- Kim Hill
ACP Program Director Center for Automotive Research (CAR)
- Larry A. Good
Chairman
Corporation for a Skilled Workforce
Session:
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Top | Information Collection: The Rapid Response Reporting System (Lab)
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Overvew and demonstration of the National Rapid Response Information Network layoff reporting system.
Presenters:
- Jeff Ryan
Rapid Response Specialist
US DOL/ETA
Session:
B
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Top | Information is Power: Tools and Resources for Effective Economic Planning
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An important, and often overlooked, tool in workforce and economic development strategic planning is the many different types of labor market and community information available today. This session will highlight some innovative methods for gathering and using data to design strategies to foster growth and development in your area.
Presenters:
- Daniel Kuba
Grants Coordinator
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry
Session:
E
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Top | Local Employment Dynamics, The Newest Program from the U.S. Census Bureau (Lab)
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Local Employment Dynamics, The Newest Program from the U.S. Census Bureau, provides a wealth of new labor market information. A voluntary partnership of states and the federal government, states provide information on businesses and workers. The Census Bureau merges the data with current demographic data to produce quarterly workforce indicators. LED offers three powerful analytic tools to help economic developers, transportation planners, employers and workers, determine top industries, workforce characteristics, commuting patterns and more. This hands-on presentation/training focuses on the latest tool called "On the Map" that maps and reports the relationship between where people live and where they go to work. As time and interest permit, the other tools, "Industry Focus" and "QWI Online", will be explored.
Presenters:
- Colleen D. Flannery
Chief, Special Programs and Training
Marketing Services Office
U.S. Census Bureau
Session:
E
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Top | Marketing Rapid Response: From Reactive to Proactive
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Rapid Response services can play a vital role in positioning the workforce system with both businesses and economic development. This requires a clearly defined marketing strategy that engages all stakeholders and targets customers effectively. This panel shares specific models that have proactively marketed Rapid Response with excellent investment returns.
Moderators:
- Patti Castro
Assistant Director
Alameda County Workforce Investment Board
Presenters:
- Diane Walton
ETA
- Ann Shirra
Employment & Training Program Manager
Georgia Department of Labor
- Celina Shands Gradijan
President/CEO
Full Capacity Marketing, Inc.
Session:
B
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Top | Meeting the Dynamic Needs of Business: From Rapid Response to Economic Development
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Looking beyond the traditional roles of Business Services, Rapid Response and Economic Development, Workforce Investment Boards from Maryland, Kentucky and California are developing a new vision of Business Services. This workshop will illustrate how and why these Boards have combined traditional business services with Rapid Response, layoff aversion and incumbent worker projects and have partnered with economic development. Members of the National Workgroup on Worker Dislocation Response will present this workshop.
Presenters:
- Craig Holloman
Program Coordinator
West Kentucky Workforce Investment Board
- Rob Gamble
Executive Director
BayBio Institute
- Melissa Mackey
Director, Adult Programs
USWIB
Session:
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Top | National Emergency Grant e-Application (Lab)
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Demonstration of the National Emergency Grant e-Application system.
Presenters:
- Jeanette Provost
Project Specialist
National Emergency Grants
DOL
Session:
C,D
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Top | New Beginnings: Trade Program Tools for a New, Flatter World
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An introductory-level session designed to highlight the basic components of the Trade Adjustment Assistance program; intended for newer Trade staff, Rapid Response staff, and one-stop career center staff who may not have first-hand knowledge of the Trade Program.
Presenters:
- Tim Theberge
Regional Trade Coordinator
US DOL / ETA - Region 1
- Gerardo Lara
TAA Coordinator
U.S. DOL - ETA Region V
- Elaine Tom Yates
Regional Trade Coordinator
Department of Labor
- Rosemary Williams-Raysor
Unemployment Insurance Program Specialist
U. S. Department of Labor - ETA
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Top | Performance: Whadaya Know And Can You Report It?
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This session will provide a high level introduction to the importance of performance accountability and what is driving local partners? interests in terms of performance measurement. We?ll examine the ?myths and realities? of performance accountability in the context of common measures, and focus on why telling the story of ALL your services and outcomes matters.
Presenters:
- Susan Worden
Program Analyst
USDOL
- Gail Sather
Management Analyst
USDOL-PROTECH
Session:
B
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Top | Proactive Planning Prevents Poor Performance
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If you envision Rapid Response as a service that merely responds to layoff announcements and serves affected workers, you are missing the point. To be most effective, Rapid Response MUST be viewed as a proactive solution for economic and workforce development. This session will discuss using available tools for effective planning of Rapid Response efforts.
Presenters:
- John Dorrer
Maine Department of Labor
Director of Divison of Labor Market Information
- Terry Bohannon
Colorado State Rapid Response Coordinator
Colorado Department of Labor and Employment
Session:
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Top | Proactive Response: Layoff Aversion Strategies
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A unique feature of Rapid Response is its ability to develop strategies to avert layoffs. Layoff aversion is a broad range of strategies and a continuum of meanings-it does not just refer to employees buying a company and keeping it open and saving their own jobs. Learn strategies, discover resources, and share ideas on effective methods of averting layoffs.
Presenters:
- Tom Croft
Executive Director
Steel Valley Authority
Session:
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Top | Promising Practice Series: Two Region 6 "Cutting Edge Solutions" - Silicon Valley's Nationwide Study of Layoff Aversion Practices Leads to Creative New Solutions for the Region & Arizona's Integration of RR, Trade and WIA services
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In California's Silicon Valley, the high-tech bust of the early 2000's raised challenging issues regarding the opportunities to avert future layoffs and to more rapidly transition workers from outsourced occupations to new growing occupations in the region. Hear about the results of Silicon Valley Workforce Investment Network nationwide study of best practices in layoff aversion and how they plan to apply new solutions in their region. In addition, the Coordinator of Arizona's Trade Department will discuss how she and her staff revitalized their system to build a bottom-to-top integrated structure for RR, Trade and DW services, overcoming numerous barriers in the process.
Moderators:
- Patti Castro
Assistant Director
Alameda County Workforce Investment Board
Presenters:
- Ralph Zackheim
Federal Project Officer
US Dept. of Labor
- Karen LeDoux
Analyst
Silicon Valley Workforce Investment Network
- Ray McDonald
Community Coordinator Supervisor
Silicon Valley Workforce Investment Network
- Paul O'Reilly
Consultant
- Pat Richards
Business Liaison
NOVA
- Nicole Chavira
Trade Program Coordinator
Arizona
Session:
B
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Top | Promising Practice Series (Region 1)
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The Massachusetts representative will provide an overview of their TAARRNEG/MOSES MIS system and their integration with Rapid Response, Dislocated Worker and National Emergency Grants. The representative from Maine will discuss the closing of Great Northern Paper, in Millinocket and East Millinocket and the formation of the Community Transition Team. Maine will also present on system integration at the one-stop level
Presenters:
- Beth Goguen
Trade Coordinator - Massachusetts Department of Workforce
Development - Division of Career Services
- Judy Pelletier
Trade & Rapid Response Coordinator
Maine Department of Labor - Bureau of Employment Services
Session:
D
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Top | Promising Practice Series (Region2): Employer Intermediaries and Rapid Response; A Partnership with Potential
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In south central Pennsylvania, another manufacturer announces their intent to close the local plant, causing 270 people to lose their jobs. But while the community anguished at the thought of another 270 job losses, a team was being gathered to respond. But unlike a typical rapid response effort, an employer intermediary, the Manufacturers? Association of South Central Pennsylvania joined the team and working in partnership, developed a unique approach to a major layoff. While the approach and processes were innovative, the true measures of success were the outcomes. Join the session to learn how the Rapid Response partners joined with a trade association and an employer to develop an effective communication program, maintain production levels, build an employee skill-set database, recruit new employment opportunities, and establish a process that is easily sustained and replicated.
Presenters:
- Michael Smeltzer
Executive Director
Manufacturers Association of South Central Pennsylvania
- Susan E. Miller
Regional Representative
PA Department of Labor & Industry
Rapid Response Coordination Services
Session:
C
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Top | Promising Practice Series (Region 3)
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In September 2005, as part of the Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration announced grants for the purpose of funding approximately highly skilled Reintergration Counselors (for up to six months.) The Funds were to be used to secure the Counselors and support their service delivery efforts with equipment, space, communications support and mobility. This one-on-one reintergration guidance provided directly to evacuees was intended to expedite their return to the labor force in their temporary community or back in their home states, thereby enhancing their self-sufficiency and economic stabilization. Representatives from Alabama, Florida and Mississippi will discuss their experiences, challenges and successes under this initiative.
Presenters:
- Werner Baker
Reintegration Counselor State Coordinator
Alabama Department of Rehabilitaion Services
- Patricia Williams
Coordinator for MS Reintegration Counselors
Mississippi Department of Employment Security
- Stanley McMorris
Reintegration Counselor
Mississippi Dept of Employment Security
Session:
E
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Top | Promising Practice Series (Region 4)
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Colorado/Texas
Presenters:
- Dale Robertson
Business Services Unit Director
Texas Workforce Commission
- Terry Bohannon
Rapid Response Coordinator
Colorado
Session:
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Top | Promising Practice Series (Region 5)
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This session will cover how we use the BEST Process to turn Rapid Response into a proactive function rather than a strictly reactive response. Presenters will explain how partnership with economic development and education allows interaction with a company and how to take advantage of the labor resource coming out of that closure or downsizing, as well as discuss a layoff aversion initiative with Michigan State University and the philosophy behind it and why it is important to the community. Examples of successful projects will be shared with the audience.
Presenters:
- Christine Quinn
President, South Central Michigan Works
- Jim Lautenschleger
Chief Operating Officer
Michigan Human Resources Development, Inc.
Session:
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Top | Rapid Response as a Foundation for Business Services
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Rapid Response is often the first opportunity we have to showcase the public workforce investment system to business. Because not all layoffs are closures, and a business that is down to today may well be up tomorrow, a high-quality Rapid Response System is a critical component of any Business Service Strategy. Selling Rapid Response to businesses requires speaking to employers in a language they understand, and communicating the benefits of Rapid Response from an employer perspective. Learn to promote Rapid Response as a part of a fully integrated service package-the company you help with outplacement today you may well help recover and grow in the future. Related topics include developing partnerships with organizations to strengthen services available to companies and to be able to reach and educate more employers on the benefits of the workforce system.
Presenters:
- Dale Robertson
Business Services Unit Director
Texas Workforce Commission
Session:
A
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Top | Rapid Response as a Gateway to the Workforce System
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High quality Rapid Response services are a major gateway to the public workforce system; effective Rapid Response leads to integrated services for workers and better services to businesses. With the ability to be proactive, flexible, and connected, Rapid Response should be a critical component of your service delivery strategies, both to businesses AND affected workers. Take advantage of the benefits Rapid Response brings to position it as the most visible face of your workforce programs.
Presenters:
- Ken Messina
Rapid Response Coordinator
MA Division of Career Services
- Rob Gamble
Executive Director
BayBio Institute
- Mike Carroll
Danaher Tool Corporation
Session:
E
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Top | Rapid Response Coach Web Training (Lab)
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Join a hands-on lab based computer experience in the use of powerful new Web tools. As you test the Online Coach for Rapid Response you will quickly realize both the ease and the power of this tool to provide assistance to workers who are being furloughed. As a workforce development professional you can quickly and easily provide assistance and resources to help workers back to employment. The Coach guides you to dozens of national and state web sites and shows you how to use them to provide key information and services for your customers. Due to computer lab size this unique opportunity is limited to 15 attendees. Get there early!
Presenters:
- Harvey Ollis
Manager
E-Tools Group/ETA
US Department of Labor
- Cheryllynn Hamm
Web Content/Coach Manager
Development InfoStructure (Devis)
Session:
C
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Top | READY, SET, COMPETE!! Innovative Strategies for Creating a Competitive Economic Advantage ? The Eastern North Carolina Experience!
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With renewed focus and a leadership philosophy founded upon a shared regional vision, collaboration, and a "CAN DO" attitude, the workforce and economic development leadership of Eastern North Carolina have joined together to form new partnerships that are erasing the traditional boundaries that once separated them by implementing innovative, proactive strategies to transform Eastern North Carolina?s economy. This workshop will focus on the value of creating collaborative regional workforce and economic development partnerships that is prepared to compete in a changing economy, and will highlight several talent and economic development strategies for responding to BRAC.
Presenters:
- Tammy Childers
Eastern Carolina Workforce Development Board, Inc.
New Bern, North Carolina
- Bruce Gombar
Director
Jacksonville/Onslow County Economic Development Commission
- Marilyn Roseborough
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
Goldsboro, NC
- Pat Hurley
Cumberland County Workforce Development Board
Fayetteville, NC
Session:
E
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Top | Road to WIRED: Where does Rapid Response fit?
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Following Assistant Secretary DeRocco's plenary presentation on the WIRED initiative, participants will engage in roundtable discussions on the role of Rapid Response in facilitating regional economic development. Three discussion groups will be led by Doug Small, Helen Parker, and Byron Zuidema, who will help identify opportunities and challenges in connecting the goals of WIRED-type inititatives to worker dislocation.
Presenters:
- Doug Small
Break-out Group Leader & Moderator
- Helen Parker
Break-out Group Leader
- Byron Zuidema
Break-out Group Leader
- Roderick Nunn
Director
Division of Workforce Development
Session:
A
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Top | Serving the Customer: Co-Enrollment
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This session will focus on ETA's common goal of integration of services, including highlights of our attempt to address one commonly perceived roadblock to co-enrollment in some states. That roadblock, which holds that co-enrollment has a negative impact on WIA Performance Achievement, is being tested in the six state Co-enrollment pilot project. Attendees will be given insight into the pilot findings to date, as well as the opportunity to discuss best practices currently being practiced by some of their peers who find co-enrollment an effective way to deliver services to dislocated workers across program lines.
Presenters:
- Terry Clark
Acting Supervisor, Service Delivery & MIS Group
Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance, DOL/ETA
- Ray Palmer
Manpower Development Specialist
Employment and Training Administration
- Dave Smith
TAA Coordinator
Texas Workforce Commission
- Melissa D. Mack
Policy Analyst
Social Policy Research Associates
Session:
C
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Top | Strategic & Operational Aspects of Business Services
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As the public workforce investment system strives to reach out to its employer customers, one of the issues that arises revolves around what entities in the system should do what part of that outreach. There is a strategic role that Workforce Investment Boards should tackle that includes analysis of local economies, building relations with system partners (economic development, education, local government, the business community), the identification of strategic priorities where public sector investment may be required, and finding and allocating the resources that are needed. There is also an operational role that One-Stop Centers typically fill which relates to finding job orders, assisting companies with the human resource function (screening, testing, developing policies and procedures), providing information on government requirements and resources, layoff aversion, and responding to mass layoffs.
Presenters:
- Rob Gamble
Executive Director
BayBio Institute
- Scott Sheely
Executive Director
Workforce Investment Board of Lancaster County
- Michael Temple
The WorkSource - Gulf Coast Workforce Board
Session:
B
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Top | Strengthening our Communities through Integrated Economic & Workforce Information
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The U.S. Census Bureau has new tools to gather and display a wealth of labor market and community information essential to economic planners and decision-makers. This session will highlight innovative technology for integrating data from state and federal sources that will help you design strategies to foster growth and development in your area.
Presenters:
- Nancy Gordon
Assoc. Director for Strategic Planning & Innovation
US Census Bureau
US Department of Labor
- vColleen D. Flannery
Chief, Special Programs and Training
Marketing Services Office
U.S. Census Bureau
Session:
D
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Top | The Next Google?: Entrepreneurial Training and Development
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One of the key engines of economic development in this country is innovative new business ventures. The entrepreneurial spirit is strong in America, and many customers are interested in specific training in entrepreneurialism. Come learn more about coordinating entrepreneurial training and information with Rapid Response.
Presenters:
- Erica Kauten
Director, Business and Manufacturing Extension
University of Wisconsin Extension, Madison
- Connie Ireland
Regional Administrator
Department of Employment & Economic Development
- Patricia Richardson, JD
US Department of Labor
Employee Benefits Security Administration
- Lisa Hughes
Economic Development Program Specialist
Department of Employment & Economic Development
Session:
C
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Top | The Wind Does Blow and the Earth Does Shake: Preparing for and Responding to Natural Disasters
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As the past year showed, natural disasters can wreak havoc on employment in this country. They also pose significant and unique challenges for the workforce system and economic development efforts. Rapid Response is a flexible resource that can be deployed immediately to respond to a disaster and begin providing services to workers who have been affected.
Presenters:
- Larry McIntyre
Special Projects Coordinator
Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation
- Wanda Land
Director, Office of Grant Management
Mississippi Dept of Employment Security
Session:
E
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Top | Transformation: New Trade Regulations
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Overview of new regulations for the Trade Act of 2002
Presenters:
- Erin FitzGerald
Program Analyst
USDOL/Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance
Session:
C
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Top | Transformation: Understanding and Connecting to Economic Development
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The economic development community has faced numerous challenges in recent years. Economic developers have been characterized as "smokestack chasers" referring to their historic search for industries to locate to their areas to create jobs. Manufacturing job losses through plant closings and lay-offs, workforce needs of technology-based industry, competitions for scarce resources, and the press for high-value incentives have all placed pressure on their ability to successfully lure employers. A panel of economic developers will discuss the challenges they face in bringing new jobs to their community, how this has changed in recent years, workforce needs of prospective employers, what becoming competitive means to them, and how they see the connection between workforce development and job creation.
Presenters:
- H. Philip Paradice, Jr.
Chief, Capacity Development Division
Economic Development Administration
- Patrick McKeehan
Director
St. Louis Regional Automotive Partnership
- Ed Martin
President and Owner of Growth Services
Session:
C,F
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Top | Transitioning Workers: Short-Term Strategies
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This session will focus on efforts to move workers from declining industries, or from downsizing companies, to industries and companies that are growing and need skilled workers to sustain or stimulate growth. While long-term strategies are part of economic development efforts in a regional economy, near-term efforts are also needed. These strategies require effective partnerships between employers (both growing and shrinking), workforce development (particularly Rapid Response), education and training, and economic development. This session will discuss various ways to effectively provide skilled workers to growing companies, and feature presenters from workforce development, economic development, education, and employer communities, and will be organized as a discussion-based forum for sharing ideas and strategies.
Presenters:
- Michael Holmes
Manager of Community Outreach
William Harrison Education Center
St. Louis Community College
- Ken Messina
Rapid Response Coordinator
MA Division of Career Services
Session:
B
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Top | Understanding the WARN Act and State Notification Laws
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Principles and aspects of this important but often very confusing federal employment law. Also learn about experiences from states that have their own notification laws in place.
Presenters:
- David Santacroce
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Michigan Law School
Session:
D
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Top | What's in Your Wallet?: ATAA, HCTC, & EBSA
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This session will provide an understanding two new programs enacted by the Trade Reform Act of 2002 in order to make options clear to potential recipients during the Rapid Response process. In addition, a representative from the Employee Benefits Security Administration will provide some insight on health care and pension benefits.
Presenters:
- Terry Clark
Acting Supervisor, Service Delivery & MIS Group
Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance, DOL/ETA
- Erin FitzGerald
Program Analyst
USDOL/Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance
- Patricia Richardson, JD
US Department of Labor
Employee Benefits Security Administration
Session:
E
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Top | When All Else Fails
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Despite efforts to make Rapid Response a proactive service delivery capacity, there are on occasion employers who remain unconvinced of the benefits of Rapid Response services to their affected workers. This session will provide tips and strategies for working with employers who are not fully cooperative, or who have closed without notice.
Presenters:
- Ron Danowski
Dislocated Worker Manager
Wisconsin
- Terry Bohannon
Rapid Response Coordinator, Colorado
Terry Bohannon, Rapid Response Coordinator, Colorado
- Christine Enright
Rapid Response - Trade Section Chief
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry
Bureau of Workforce Development Partnership
Session:
D
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Top | When Ken and Barbie Went to Mexico
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A case study on layoff aversion, economic development, and the role of Rapid Response in bringing new employment to Western Kentucky.
Presenters:
- Sheila A. Clark
Director
West Kentucky Workforce Investment Board
- Don Fraher
HR Director
Pella Corp.
- Mark Manning
CEO
Murray-Calloway County Economic Development
Session:
E
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Top | Workforce Information Tools to Inform Investment Decision Making
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This workshop session will provide participants with an overview of the electronic tools economic developers, education, and workforce investment professionals should be using to guide strategic planning and workforce and economic development investments. Applications of America's Workforce Information System (AWIS), ETA national electronic tools and information resources for government and the private sector will be highlighted. This session will highlight those tools used most frequently to describe and understand region state and local economies and will highlight new tools such as the national competency modals and the Census Bureau/ETA Local Employment Dynamics mapping tools. The presentation can use a real-world Rapid Response scenarios as demonstration.
Presenters:
- Harvey Ollis
E-Tools Group/ETA
Office of Workforce Investment, ETA
- Cheryllynn Hamm
Coach Developer/System Analyst
Development InfoStructure
- Pam Frugoli
O*NET/Competency Assessment Project Lead
Office of Workforce Investment, ETA
Session:
B
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Top | You Can Use Rapid Response Funding for That?
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Nationwide, Rapid Response money is chronically under spent. This session will highlight some of the unique ways that states and locals utilized their Rapid Response resources to better serve their customers, to conduct better outreach, and meet other resource needs. Rapid Response provides flexibility that is crucial to providing good services, and learning about these unique activities will teach you to think creatively in meeting your needs.
Presenters:
- Tim Theberge
Regional Trade Coordinator
US DOL / ETA - Region 1
- Jeff Ryan
Rapid Response Specialist
US DOL/ETA
Session:
A,F
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