— (01/07/2017) In an effort to create more opportunities for sharing and cross-collaboration, the Summit Group is exploring creating facilitated conference calls with state agency personnel who would like to discuss specific topics within the Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act (WIOA). These conference calls would be designed as discussion groups to share challenges, lessons learned, promising practices, and helpful resources as they pertain to topics within the Summit Group Community of Practice (e.g., program evaluation, planning, measurement and reporting, process and performance improvement, etc.). The intent is to hold recurrent meetings, as necessary, based on need and the evolution of the topic area.We are asking for your input to drive the topics for relevant and timely discussion. Please follow the link and add your input on 1-3 topics related to WIOA implementation that you would like to see offered as the focus of future discussion groups. If you have a particular interest in facilitating one of these discussions, please indicate so and include your contact information.

From Kirsten Rowe, Va. Dept. for Aging and Rehab. Services:

1. Accessing and using Unemployment Insurance (UI) program and other sources of quarterly wage data for WIOA core program performance reporting and evaluation
2. Addressing the “effectiveness in serving employers” performance measure for core WIOA programs
3. Developing VR staff performance metrics for the new world of WIOA

From Elaine Robertson, SC Commission for the Blind:

We are realigning our rehabilitation center to include pre and post testing for the various skills taught. Any suggestions on how to track these in an easily reportable format would be helpful.

From Janet Cool, OOD:

1) subminimum wage
2) extended employment surveys/reviews
3) wage verification (source documentation)

Posted in: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act