Located in:
- Program-Specific Requirements for Wagner-Peyser Program (Employment Services)
All Program-Specific Requirements provided for the WIOA core programs in this section must be addressed for either a Unified or Combined State Plan.
e. 6. D. Assessment of Progress
The plan must include an explanation of what was achieved based on the previous AOP, what was not achieved and an explanation as to why the State believes the goals were not achieved, and how the State intends to remedy the gaps of achievement in the coming year.
Current Narrative:
Year after year, the state continually exceeds its overall planned outreach objectives for the season. For PY16, for example, the state had planned 2,187 outreach contacts. The effort from outreach staff and the monitor advocate totaled more than 4,500 contacts during that period. In PY17, the MSFW contacts totaled 4,589; in PY18, that number totaled 10,397. The state will strive to reach its goals of exceeding its planned outcomes for the year.
As noted earlier, the number of actual MSFW applications for the state has decreased significantly, much of this due to the transition from the WIA to WIOA. In addition, the decline also coincides with the period of time during which the Department has implemented its IdahoWorks system as a member of the AJLA consortium.
In testing the system, the state monitor advocate identified some barriers that may have possibly contributed to the diminished access and identification of farmworkers when using the new system. A sent a request for system changes was made, with several of the changes actually implemented. One of the more recent changes requested include the deletion of additional questions that were previously used to identify farmworkers under WIA, but that no longer part of the WIOA MSFW definition at 20 CFR 651. This objective was finally met in PY18, when AJLA modified IdahoWorks to align with the recently revised Participant Individual Record Layout (PIRL) which had just incorporated the new MSFW definition.