STRATEGIC PLAN 2020-2023 - Virginia Career Works

STRATEGIC PLAN 2020-2023

BUILDING A WOKFORCE SYSTEM THAT WORKS FOR VIRGINIA

VIRGINIA BOARD OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Nathaniel X. Marshall

Chairman

Human Resources

Generalist

BWX Technologies, Inc.

On behalf of the Virginia Board of Workforce Development

(VBWD), we are pleased to present the 2020-2023 Strategic Plan,

approved on September 18th, 2020. The VBWD is a diverse group of

leaders from across the State who advise the Governor on

workforce issues. A sincere thank you goes out to the members of

the Strategic Plan Task Force for their hard work on this document,

which offers a workforce system blueprint for the next three years.

Our goal here in the Commonwealth is clear – to create the best

workforce system in the nation.To reach this goal, we must:

Align the Commonwealth’s workforce system with economic

development strategies

Ensure training programs are demand driven

Provide Virginians with educational pathways that lead to

economic independence and prosperity

Create a best-in-class delivery system for workforce services

that is accessible and effective for job seekers and employers

alike

As stewards of taxpayer dollars, we must ensure that every

investment in workforce development drives high-impact

outcomes. We must acknowledge the devastating effects of the

pandemic and support the Governor’s plan for recovery. We look

forward to your continued partnership and support, as we build a

better future forVirginia’s businesses and workers.

Sincerely,

Nathaniel X. Marshall – Chair Lane Hopkins -Vice Chair

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LETTER FROM

THE CHAIR AND

VICE CHAIR

Lane Hopkins

Vice Chair

Chief Talent Officer

Harris Williams & Co

Virginia Board of Workforce Development

Private Sector

Members

Nathaniel X. Marshall - Chairman

Human Resources Generalist

BWX Technologies, Inc.

Lane Hopkins - Vice Chair

Chief Talent Officer

Harris Williams & Co

Hobart “Hobey” Bauhan

President

Virginia Poultry Federation

Xavier Beale

Vice President of Trades

Newport News Shipbuilding

Julie Brown

Owner

2 Witches Winery & Brewing

Company

Lynne Bushey

Senior Vice President

CGI

Ernie Caldwell

President

G.J. Hopkins

Barry DuVal

President

The Virginia Chamber of Commerce

Daniel Gomez

Chief Strategy Officer

Capitol Bridge LLC

D. Michael Hymes

President

HY Performance Management

Consulting

Melissa McDevitt Jiulianti

VP, Diversity and Inclusion

Capital One

Jim Monroe

Global VP of Customer Success

Cisco AppDynamics

Joan Peterson

Executive Director

Literacy for Life

Carrie Roth

President and CEO

Activation Capital & VA Bio + Tech

Park

Becky Sawyer

Senior Vice President, Chief Human

Resources Officer

Sentara Healthcare

Anne Jolly Schlussler

Founding Partner

Clarity Technology Partners

Raheel Sheikh

President

Manassas Auto and Tire

John David Smith, Jr

Owner and Partner

Village Market Bistro, Village Square

Restaurant, & V2 Piano Bar

Zuzana Steen

Academic and Community Relations

Manager

Micron Technology, Inc.

Brett Vassey

President & CEO

Virginia Manufacturers Association

Brian T. Warner

Rolls-Royce Head

Commonwealth Center for Advanced

Manufacturing

Labor and Training

Members

Tommy Bell

Business Manager

Iron Workers Local Union 79

Doris Crouse-Mays

President

Virginia State AFL-CIO

Virginia Rae Diamond

President

Northern Virginia Labor Federation

Mark B. Dreyfus

President

ECPI University

Glenn Dubois

Chancellor

Virginia Community College System

Patricia Funegra

Founder and CEO

La Cocina VA

Travis Staton

President and CEO

United Way of Southwest Virginia

Strategic Plan 2020 – 2023

MEMBERS AND STAFF

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State and Local

Elected Officials

The Honorable George Barker

Virginia Senate, 39th District

The Honorable James “Jimmy”

Gray

Councilman, City of Hampton, VA

The Honorable Ann Mallek

Supervisor, Albemarle County

The Honorable Jeremy McPike

Virginia Senate, 29th District

The Honorable Kathleen Murphy

Virginia House of Delegates, 34th

District

The Honorable Kathy Tran

Virginia House of Delegates, 42nd

District

Governor’s Cabinet

Members

The Honorable Brian Ball

Secretary of Commerce and Trade

The Honorable Dr. Daniel Carey

Secretary of Health and Human

Services

The Honorable Dr. Megan Healy

Chief Workforce Development Advisor

The Honorable Carlos Hopkins

Secretary of Veterans and Defense

Affairs

The Honorable Brian Moran

Secretary of Public Safety and

Homeland Security

The Honorable Atif Qarni

Secretary of Education

Designees

Fran Bradford

Deputy Secretary for Education

Designee for Secretary Atif Qarni

Jae K. Davenport

Deputy Secretary of Public Safety &

Homeland Security

Designee for Secretary Brian Moran

Dr. Daniel Lufkin

President, Paul D. Camp Community

College

Designee for Chancellor Glenn Dubois

Deborah Melvin

Assistant Vice President, Talent

Solutions

Virginia Economic Development

Partnership

Designee for Secretary Brian Ball

Duke Storen

Commissioner, Virginia Department of

Social Services

Designee for Secretary Daniel Carey

Johnathan G. Ward

Assistant Secretary of Veterans &

Defense Affairs

Designee for Secretary Carlos Hopkins

StaffSpecial acknowledgment goes to the

following members of the Board’s

cross-agency staff team who

contributed to the development of this

plan and provided invaluable staff

support and expertise to support the

Board and its work.

Jane Dittmar, Executive Director

Deputy Chief Advisor for Workforce

Development

Office of the Governor

George Taratsas, Staff Leader

Director, WIOA Administration &

Compliance


Dale Batten

Deputy Commissioner, Division of

Rehabilitation Services

Virginia Department for Aging &

Rehabilitative Services

Jason Brown

Deputy Commissioner

Virginia Employment Commission

Pam Cato

Director, Vocational Rehabilitation &

Workforce Services

Virginia Department for the Blind &

Vision Impaired

Dr. Yolanda Crewe

Director, WIOA Title I Program

Services


Julie Jacobs

Workforce Services Manager

Virginia Department of Social Services

Martina Murray

Director, Education Programs

Virginia Department of Veterans

Services

Maria Onsel

Administrative Assistant


Jeff Ryan

Deputy Commissioner


Heidi Silver-Pacuilla

Adult Education Coordinator

Virginia Department of Education

Dr. Robert Walker

Chief, Veterans Services


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MEMBERS AND STAFF

4Virginia Board of Workforce Development

MISSION, VISION, AND

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

The Virginia Board of Workforce Development (VBWD) is

a business-led board that acts as the principal advisor to the

Governor, providing strategic leadership to the state regarding

the public workforce development system.

MissionThe mission of the VBWD is to build a strong workforce

with skills aligned to employer needs.

The Board’s roles and responsibilities are described in Virginia

law as well as the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity

Act (WIOA). The Board has several deliverables for which it is

responsible, including policy and budget recommendations; the

provisions of specific guidance, policy, and oversight for the

programs funded by WIOA; the development of state-level

performance metrics for the workforce system; the production

and dissemination of an annual workforce system report; a

review of agency budgets; and a comprehensive cross-agency

workforce plan. To accomplish its mission, the Board has

endorsed a set of guiding principles.

VisionEvery Virginian, regardless of the barriers they face, has equitable access to tools and

opportunities leading to careers that pay family-sustaining wages, and every business has

access to a highly skilled workforce.

To achieve the best possible result for our customers, the Board and all workforce system partners need to:

Be business-driven and customer focused in all that we do

Be flexible, nimble, and responsive culture of continuous improvement

Be collaborative in engaging a network of partners to accomplish our goals

Be innovative in our approach, including integrating technology and new ways of doing things

Move beyond compliance and embracing a culture of innovation and invention

Use data and evidence in our policy and decision-making

The public workforce system includes eight agencies and 25 programs organized under three secretariats.

Appendix A includes a complete listing and description of the partner agencies and their programs. The

Board recognizes that the workforce system in Virginia includes important players beyond these state

agencies and programs, including private training providers, community-based and faith-based organizations,

and others who share our vision and mission. The Board encourages collaboration at the state and local level

to ensure public and private sector resources are fully leveraged to deliver effective solutions to workforce

challenges. 5Strategic Plan 2020 – 2023

In December 2019, the Virginia unemployment rate was among the

lowest in the nation at 2.7 percent. Approximately 23,000 individuals had

filed unemployment claims. With the national unemployment rate at 3.5

percent, the state and the national employment landscape was promising.

This landscape changed dramatically as a result of the economic

downturn caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic. By July 1, 2020, the

state unemployment rate had increased to eight percent. Unemployment

claims by Virginians increased by over 1,800 percent.

From July 2019 to July 2020, Virginia lost an estimated 284,000 jobs, or

7.0 percent. Those job losses varied across the Commonwealth. The

Winchester metro statistical area experienced the highest percentage of

job losses, while the Staunton-Waynesboro metro statistical area saw a small

increase in employment over the last year.

From December 2019 to July 2020, the Virginia industries that

experienced the greatest percentage decrease in employed individuals

includes Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (-47.7 percent), Leisure and

Hospitality (-23.9 percent), Accommodation and Food Services (-19.7 percent),

Administrative, Support, and Waste Management (-14.1 percent), and Real Estate,

Rental and Leasing (-10.7 percent). Construction (2.5 percent) was one of the only

industries to see an increase in employees.

From December 2019 to July 2020, unemployment claims for Virginia

women increased by over 2,300 percent. This increase is 1,000 percent

more than the increase for men over the same period. Asian Virginians,

whose claims increased by over 6,000 percent, experienced the highest

unemployment claims percentage increase by race. This increase was over 4,000

percent more than the increase for White Virginians. Black and African American

Virginians experienced an increase of over 1,400 percent and Latino/a Virginians

experienced an increase of over 400 percent.

Virginians under the age of 22 experienced the highest percentage

increase in unemployment claims by age. Their claims increased by

almost 18,000 percent. The rate of unemployment claim increases went

down as the age of the claimant went up. However, Virginians aged 65 and older

experienced an increase of over 1,500 percent, which is a higher rate of increase

than that of those aged 35-64.

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Metro Statistical AreaEmployment Change

July ’19 – July ‘20

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford -8.3%

Charlottesville -6.9%

Harrisonburg -6.8%

Lynchburg -5.8%

Northern Virginia -8.0%

Richmond -7.1%

Roanoke -6.7%

Staunton-Waynesboro 1.9%

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News -6.2%

Winchester -8.8%

VIRGINIA SNAPSHOT


STRATEGIC

PLAN

GOALS AND

STRATEGIES

Strategy 1.2

Evaluate existing Virginia workforce policies

and programs to determine effectiveness.

Identify short and long-term workforce strategies for

businesses and workers in response to changing economic

conditions.

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In its role as advisor to the Governor, the Board will:

Strategy 1.1

Ascertain business and worker needs as

economic conditions change.

Strategy 2.1

Encourage the increased accessibility of

registered apprenticeships and other work-

based training programs amongst

populations facing barriers.

Goal 1

Expand equitable access to education and training programs.Goal 2

Strategy 2.2

Support every Virginian to earn a minimum of

a high school diploma or equivalent, and

preferably a post-secondary credential or an

industry recognized credential.

Strategy 2.3

Address challenges to equitable access to education and training programs

throughout the Commonwealth.


Strategy 3.2

Increase awareness, accessibility, and usage

of the Virginia Career Works Portal to

connect workers to sustainable jobs and

provide actionable information to decision

makers within Virginia’s workforce

development system.

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Strategy 3.1

Connect Virginia businesses to workers more

effectively using available technology.

Strategy 4.1

Examine legacy policies that impede

equitable access to workforce development

and opportunities and remove those policies

that are outdated.

Increase access to the technology needed for the education,

training, and career pathway development for Virginia’s

workforce of the future.Goal 3

Address systemic barriers to workforce success through

innovative strategies, policy changes, and investments.Goal 4

Strategy 4.2

Recommend the Governor and the General

Assembly use flexible funding to establish a

process to test innovations that address root

causes of workforce system barriers.

Strategy 4.3

Identify areas of service alignment and overlap.

STRATEGIC

PLAN

GOALS AND

STRATEGIES


APPENDIX –DEFINING VIRGINIA’S WORKFORCE SYSTEM

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Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired Vocational Rehabilitation ProgramProvides services (employment preparation and assistive

technology) to help to make employment opportunities

available to persons with visual disabilities.

Department for Aging and Rehabilitation Services Vocational Rehabilitation ProgramProvides employment services, assistive technology and

disability determination to help those with disabilities to

prepare for, find and keep a job.

Department of Education Adult Education and LiteracyProvides integrated education and training to adult

populations in support of improved employment outcomes.

PluggedIn VA Provides low-skilled adults with a program

that incorporates digital literacy skills,

professional soft skills, and 21st Century

Skills into a traditional GED® curriculum and a Career

Readiness Certificate.

Career and Tech Ed/Secondary Perkins Provides young people in grades 6-12 with technical training

courses, credentials, and industry certifications.

Workplace Readiness Skills Assessment Provides funding for young adults to work toward the

Workforce Readiness Skills Assessment certification.

Virginia Workforce System Program Descriptions

Agency* Program Description

*Work in Progress. Agency/Programs may still be added.


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Department of Labor and Industry Registered Apprenticeship Program Provides coordination of apprenticeships in a range of trades

including on-the-job training, theoretical instruction, and

journeyman certification.

Department of Social Services SNAP Employment and Training Provides job preparation, training, and support services to

assist SNAP clients in gaining employment.

VA Initiative for Employment not Welfare Provides job preparation training and support services to

assist TANF clients in gaining employment.

Virginia Community College System Institutes of Excellence Provides focused education and cutting edge training in areas

that support Virginia’s business and industry.

Non-Credit Workforce Training Provides customized, open-enrollment training based on

Virginia business needs.

Postsecondary Perkins Provides funding for Career and Technical Education in

community colleges and Career Coaches program.

WIOA Adult Provides job search and placement assistance as well as

employment plans, counseling, and training and support

services.

WIOA Dislocated Worker Provides employment, training and support services for

workers who are losing their jobs as a result of layoff or

company closing.

WIOA Youth Provides intensive services including employment plans,

Counseling, training, and support services for youth aged

16-24.

WIOA Rapid Response

Layoff AversionProvides businesses with employee hiring, staff restructuring

and training support. Rapid Response is most noticeably front

and center to Virginia’s workers when their place of

employment is downsizing and a significant number of

workers lose their jobs, but the program also helps firms

avoid layoffs, especially through upskilling initiatives.

Virginia Economic Development Partnership Virginia Jobs Investment Program Provides funds to offset recruiting and training costs incurred

by companies that are either creating new jobs or

implementing technological upgrades and provides assistance

to companies with workforce-related challenges and

organizational development workshops.



*Work in Progress. Agency/Programs may still be added.Virginia Board of Workforce Development

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Virginia Employment Commission Trade Adjustment Assistance Program Provides re-training, job search and relocation support for

workers being laid off because of jobs moving overseas.

Veterans Program Provides job search and counseling services and training to

Veterans and candidate matching services to employers.

Wagner-Peyser Provides employment assistance services to job-ready

workers who are unemployed and recruitment assistance to

employers.

WIOA Rapid Response Provides timely and comprehensive Rapid Re-employment

services to laid–off workers who are the subject of WARN

notices. The goal is to place workers in new jobs so that they

can transition to new employment opportunities immediately

in an effort to reduce the average duration of unemployment

insurance compensation they may require.

*Work in Progress. Agency/Programs may still be added.

VIRGINIA BOARD OF

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

STRATEGIC PLAN 2020-2023

SEPTEMBER 2020

prepared by the:

STRATEGIC PLANNING TASK FORCE

facilitated by the:

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

GROUP

L. DOUGLAS WILDER SCHOOL OF

GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY

(804) 828-8845

[email protected]

www.pmg.vcu.edu



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