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2 Year Modification

Indiana PYs 2018-2019

WIOA State Plan Common Elements

Located in:
  • II. Strategic Elements

    The Unified or Combined State Plan must include a Strategic Planning Elements section that analyzes the State’s current economic environment and identifies the State’s overall vision for its workforce development system. The required elements in this section allow the State to develop data-driven goals for preparing an educated and skilled workforce and to identify successful strategies for aligning workforce development programs. Unless otherwise noted, all Strategic Planning Elements apply to Combined State Plan partner programs included in the plan as well as to core programs.

    • a. Economic, Workforce, and Workforce Development Activities Analysis

      The Unified or Combined State Plan must include an analysis of the economic conditions, economic development strategies, and labor market in which the State’s workforce system and programs will operate.

      • 2. Workforce Development, Education and Training Activities Analysis
        The Unified or Combined State Plan must include an analysis of the workforce development activities, including education and training in the State, to address the education and skill needs of the workforce, as identified in Education and Skill Levels of the Workforce above, and the employment needs of employers, as identified in Employers' Employment Needs above. This must include an analysis of –

II. a. 2. C. State Workforce Development Capacity

Provide an analysis of the capacity of State entities to provide the workforce development activities identified in (A) above.
View corresponding narrative from PYs 2016-2017

Current Narrative:

The state agencies involved in providing the core WIOA workforce development activities are:

  • the Department of Workforce Development (DWD), administering WIOA Titles I, II, and III; and
  • the Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA), Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services, who oversees Vocational Rehabilitation Services (VRS) and administers WIOA Title IV.

DWD also has responsibility for the following mandatory one-stop partners: post-secondary Career and Technical Education (Perkins), Local Veterans’ Employment Representatives and Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program, Senior Community Service Employment program, Trade Adjustment Assistance programs, and Unemployment Compensation programs. FSSA also has responsibility for the TANF program.

Additionally the following state agencies administer programs falling within the mandatory one-stop partners:

  • the Office of Community and Rural Affairs administers the Workforce Development Program grant, a HUD Employment and Training Program; and
  • the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) is the designated state agency for purposes of carrying out state activities for the federal Community Services Block Grant.

Given the consolidation of several of the state’s workforce development activities into a few agencies and given the coordination between the state agencies, the capacity of the state’s entities to provide workforce development activities is great. Additionally, the previous work that has been completed by the Indiana Career Council has provided a solid foundation for the state entities to continue to move forward and expand state capacity. The majority of the work of the Indiana Career Council has been transitioned to the state workforce board, thus further empowering the state workforce entities to accomplish the necessary workforce development activities to move Indiana forward.