Vision:
A globally competitive and skilled workforce that promotes and nurtures a
diverse and prosperous economy and preserves the special quality of life in
SUMMARY
Goal I: Align the
economic, education, and employment communities into a comprehensive and
coordinated network.
Objective
A: Coordinate resources effectively and
efficiently.
Objective
B:
Provide comprehensive information
to implementers of workforce development policies.
Goal II: Provide all people the
opportunity to acquire and maintain skills, attitudes and behaviors necessary to
be a part of the competitive workforce and to be
self-sufficient.
Objective
A: Improve basic skills and qualifications
of all job seekers and workers.
Objective
B:
Increase participation of targeted underrepresented populations in education,
training, employment, and career advancement.
Objective
C: Increase qualified labor supply for
targeted industries for a diversified statewide economy.
Goal III: Improve the incentives and
commitment for businesses to increase innovation and productivity of their work
places.
Objective
A: Promote incentives for employers who
develop competitive workforce skills and maximize innovations of workplace
cultures.
Objective
B: Recognize business’ workforce models
that achieve successful business outcomes.
Goal I: Align the
economic, education, and employment communities into a comprehensive and
coordinated network.
Objective A: Coordinate
resources effectively and efficiently.
Priority
Actions:
1. Assure statewide delivery of
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) services
·
Consider
sustainability of each designated local area.
·
Simplify procedures
to achieve more efficient use of resources and time.
2. Improve One-Stop
Centers
·
Provide statewide
branding for the public’s easy identification of
One-Stops.
·
Identify where
resources should be redirected for greater effectiveness and return on
investment
·
Monitor substantive
Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs), responsiveness of One-Stops, and service
coordination.
·
Provide sample RFPs
that require/give more points for collaborative delivery of
services.
·
Provide One-Stop
guidelines to require collaborative delivery of services.
·
Reward local areas
that strengthen interagency coordination in serving
clients.
·
Convene state
partners to negotiate state MOA to sustain One-Stops.
·
Provide best
practices for One-Stop business services.
3. Review and comment on entities’
plans for alignment with the Workforce Development Strategic Plan’s goals,
objectives, and priorities.
4. Address all issues that support
workforce development and economic health; that is, the cost of health care,
adequate housing, litigation costs, quality of schools, self-sustaining wages,
effect of substance abuse on learning and work performance, engagement of
populations that are marginally participating in the workforce, child care,
parenting education, family literacy, transportation.
Indicators:
1.
WIA performance
measures that are met or exceeded.
2.
Number of entities
that signed substantive MOUs to more effectively deliver workforce development
programs.
3.
Number of identified
services and funding streams that coordinate their
activities.
4. Decreased number of identified
service gaps in the workforce development system.
5. Reduced identified service
duplications in the workforce development system.
6. Increased number of One-Stop
employer customers (by 1% per year?).
Goal
I: Align the economic, education,
and employment communities into a comprehensive and coordinated
network.
Objective
B: Provide
comprehensive information to implementers of workforce development
policies.
Priority
Actions:
1.
Establish
comprehensive electronic links to information and analysis on labor demand,
labor supply, occupational trends, technological advances, declining industries,
demographic shifts, workplace configurations, regional (Asia-Pacific) and global
economic opportunities, global and futuristic trends, state plans, city, state,
and federal resources, employers’ and businesses’ workforce needs throughout the
state.
2.
Improve
communication.
Indicators:
1.
Increased percent of
stakeholders who rate the information system as:
a.
Easy to
use
b.
Capturing needed
data
c.
Disseminating needed
data
d.
Satisfactory to
users
2.
Number of
participants’ comments and requests that lead to system modifications,
improvements, and adaptations.
Goal II: Provide all people the
opportunity to acquire and maintain the skills, attitudes and behaviors
necessary to be a part of the competitive workforce and to be
self-sufficient.
Objective
A: Improve basic skills
and qualifications of all job seekers and workers.
Priority
Actions:
1.
Guide and support
people into education and training, and direct resources so they can have living
wage jobs; prepare children to enter the jobs of the
future.
·
Embed career
awareness, exploration and experiences in early childhood education, school
curricula and One-Stop services.
Endorse Education’s six career pathways and employ them as appropriate in
workforce development strategies.
·
Raise public
awareness of the importance of education and continuous
learning
·
Welcome youth
participation in decision-making
·
Increase business
internships, mentorships, and projects for students
·
Make it a school
requirement for middle and high school students to prepare and use education and
transition plans for life after high school
·
Increase the amount
of financial aid available to support low-income students’ education and
training beyond high school
·
Provide effective
remediation to support under-prepared students as they pursue more education and
training
·
Provide adequate
student support and academic support services at the post-secondary levels to
increase student persistence and rates of graduation
2. Make training accessible for
people, including incumbent workers.
·
Provide training in
modules, open entry, open exit, on work-site
·
Provide distance
learning
·
Leverage resources
to make it possible for participants to complete the training. Address barriers: school, family, health, housing,
transportation, work, domestic violence
3. Improve K-12 student
performance.
4. Prevent K-12 school
dropouts.
5. Clearly identify, teach and
document student learning results of SCANS skills.
6. Solve teacher shortages by honoring
the credentials of people qualified in subject areas; e.g., hire professionals
with degrees in a subject if they want to become full-time teachers; employers
release employees to teach part-time.
7. Coordinate youth services that
support education and address multiple employment and learning
barriers.
Goal
II: Provide all people the
opportunity to acquire and maintain skills, attitudes and behaviors necessary to
be a part of the competitive workforce and to be
self-sufficient.
Objective
A: Improve basic skills and
qualifications of all job seekers and workers.
Indicators:
1.
Percent of high
school students who receive documentation that they have satisfactory workforce
skills and qualities that are universally required (SCANS).
2.
Percent of adult
education students who receive documentation that they have satisfactory SCANS
skills.
3.
Percent of employers
satisfied with their workers' basic skills and
qualifications.
4.
Percent of employers
satisfied with job seekers' basic skills and
qualifications.
Objective B: Increase
participation of targeted underrepresented populations in education, training,
employment, and career advancement.
Priority
Actions:
1.
Identify targeted
populations for special attention and develop means and strategies for
overcoming barriers and increasing their participation.
2.
Increase
accessibility to One-Stops for special populations.
Indicators:
1.
Percent, indexed by
the unemployment rate, of each targeted population achieving employment and
self-sufficiency.
2.
Percent of each
targeted population participating in education and
training.
Goal II: Provide all people the opportunity to
acquire and maintain skills, attitudes and behaviors necessary to be a part of
the competitive workforce and to be self-sufficient.
Objective C: Increase qualified
labor supply for targeted industry clusters for a diversified statewide
economy.
Priority
Actions:
1. Define and agree on industry
clusters to be targeted.
·
Governor/Mayors/WIBs/Business
leadership adopt clusters as priorities
·
Use Industry
“dashboard” and results of various employer assessments to recommend how
resources can be invested to prepare and update the workforce for the state’s
economic vision
2. Identify skills standards,
educational levels, gaps for each industry cluster.
3. Focus timely education and training
initiatives for the preparation of current workers and secondary and
post-secondary graduates that match new economic opportunities in the
state.
4. Maintain updated skills
standards.
5. Develop and lead a public/private
recruitment and rapid action team to respond to new companies locating in
6. Provide pathway from Community
Colleges’ associate degrees in applied science and technology to 4-year
bachelor’s degrees in applied science.
Indicators:
1.
Ratio of qualified
job seekers to the total number of job openings, by occupation, in targeted
industry clusters.
2.
Percent of new jobs
in targeted industry clusters filled by local labor
supply.
Goal III. Improve the incentives and commitment for
businesses to increase innovation and productivity of their work
places.
Objective A: Promote incentives
for employers who develop competitive workforce skills and maximize innovations
of workplace cultures.
Priority
Actions:
1. Inform private sector employers
about the various sources of workforce assistance.
2. Facilitate access to workforce
resources for employers and employees.
3. Use the survey results of the
Hawaii Chamber of Commerce’s Project Jobs to select actions to increase employee
training and workplace innovations by employers.
Indicators:
1.
Percent of companies
that encourage best practices; i.e., adopting appropriate skill standards,
participating in workforce education and training and serving on advisory
committees for education and training programs.
2.
Percent of employers
providing general and specific training (external and
in-house).
3. Percent of companies' budgets spent
on all forms of education and training.
4. Percent of companies' workforce,
including frontline supervisors, participating in all forms of education and
training.
5. Percent of employers (in surveys)
reporting improvements in workers' performance.
Objective B: Recognize business’
workforce models that achieve successful business outcomes.
Priority
Actions:
1.
Promote the criteria
and process of the Malcolm Baldrige Awards and other similar recognition awards,
to evoke business excellence.
Indicators:
1.
Number of employer
nominations for recognition and awards programs of outstanding
employers.
2.
Percent of employers
engaged in employee recognition and award programs.
3. Percent of employers having two or
more family-friendly policies/support services such as child care, employee
assistance, flexible work hours, personal leave, transpor-
tation
assistance and/or accommodations for continuing education, and
training.