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http://www.state.tn.us/labor-wfd/workact.html
This is an overview of the WIA program. There is the ability to
download the Strategic Five-Year State Workforce Investment Plan
in PDF format.
http://www.state.tn.us/thec/work_train.html
This is documentation on the WIA program in Tennessee. Institutions
providing training services must be certified as eligible training
providers by one of the state¹s 13 local Workforce Investment
Boards before being placed on the statewide list monitored by
the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. In order to remain
on the state list, the institution must meet minimum performance
standards established by the federal guidelines and the Governor.
Beginning
July 1, 2000, the Tennessee Higher Education Commission was
designated by the Governor as the state agency that will coordinate,
monitor and maintain the Eligible Training Provider List for
the
Workforce Investment Act (WIA). The commission's experience and
infrastructure in serving as the state licensing agency for post-secondary
institutions and overseeing and authorizing schools which offer
training and education meant that the agency was well-positioned
to develop a statewide list of eligible training providers for
WIA.
Currently, the WIA list is being developed under the Division
of Post-Secondary Authorization. The main duties include evaluating
institutions to assure that they are meeting minimum performance
standards and disseminating the list of providers statewide.
http://ndweb.state.tn.us/cgi-bin/nd_CGI_50/CBJT/wiaIndex
Users can search Tennessee's Statewide List of Certified Training
Providers. Up to five criteria can be searched individually,
and multiple criteria can also be searched in the areas of
- Local Workforce Development Area, County, Area of Study,
Training
Provider, and Efficiency.
http://www.wscc.cc.tn.us/cwd/Grants/wia1.asp
Information on Local Workforce Area 2 (LWIA 2) includes 10 counties
in East Tennessee: Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen,
Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Sevier, and Union. The Local Workforce
Investment Board in LWIA 2 is the policy-making body for the
area. Private sector board members, who make up a majority
of the board, are appointed by local elected officials. The
LWIB
2 Board also includes representatives from business and industry,
education, labor, and agencies involved in workforce development.
The board is responsible for policy that guides the WIA staff
in the Walter's State Center for Workforce Development.
The
act provides for a Youth Council in each Local Workforce Investment
Area. The LWIA 2 Youth Council has a responsibility
for overseeing
the year-round youth program and making recommendations on
issues concerning youth to the LWIA 2 board. Youth programs are
operating
in each LWIA 2 county.
http://www.state.tn.us/labor-wfd/cc/
The Tennessee Career Center System was designed with valuable
input from businesses and private industry statewide. The result
is
a system able to provide maximum workforce results from one
convenient location. The System is designed to provide 75%
of Tennessee
citizens access to free, comprehensive employment related services
at a facility within 25 miles of their home. The other 25%
can access services from Affiliate sites.
The Tennessee Career
Center System is comprised of three types of facilities; regional
Comprehensive Career Centers, Affiliate
Sites and local Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development
(TDOL&WD) local offices. Fourteen full-service, Comprehensive
Regional Career Centers and Affiliate Sites, which are an on-going
development, are conveniently located across the state to provide
services to both employers and job-seekers.
Click on one of the states below to learn more
about WIA as it applies to the ten Hablamos Juntos demonstration
sites:
Alabama | California | Nebraska | Pennsylvania | Rhode
Island
South
Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Virginia | Washington
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