STATE OF GEORGIA FOUR YEAR WIOA UNIFIED STATE PLAN

STATE OF GEORGIA FOUR YEAR WIOA UNIFIED STATE PLAN

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GOVERNOR's LETTER............................................................................................................................. v UNIFIED STATE PLAN: REQUIRED PARTNERS SIGNATURE PAGE................................................ vi ACRONYM GUIDE.................................................................................................................................. vii I. WIOA STATE PLAN TYPE AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..................................................................1

(a) Unified or Combined State Plan..................................................................................................................... 1 II. STRATEGIC ELEMENTS ......................................................................................................................1

(a) Economic, Workforce, and Workforce Development Activities Analysis ...................................................... 1 (b) Strategic Vision and Goals ........................................................................................................................... 39 (c) State Strategy ............................................................................................................................................... 46 III. OPERATIONAL PLANNING ELEMENTS ....................................................................................... 53 (a) State Strategy Implementation.................................................................................................................... 53 (b) State Operating Systems and Policies ......................................................................................................... 74 IV. COORDINATION WITH STATE PLAN PROGRAMS .................................................................... 103 V. COMMON ASSURANCES ................................................................................................................ 104 VI. PROGRAM-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS FOR CORE PROGRAMS ............................................ 106 (a) General Requirements ............................................................................................................................... 106 (b) Adult and Dislocated Worker Program Requirements .............................................................................. 114 (c) Youth Program Requirements.................................................................................................................... 131 (d) Single-area State requirements ? N/A....................................................................................................... 137 (e) Waiver Requests ........................................................................................................................................ 137 TITLE I-B ASSURANCES..................................................................................................................................... 139 VII. WAGNER-PEYSER ACT PROGRAM (Employment Services) ..................................................... 140 (a) Employment Service Professional Staff Development .............................................................................. 140 (b) State Provision of Information and Meaningful Assistance ...................................................................... 141 (c) Strategy for Providing Reemployment Assistance ..................................................................................... 141 (d) State's Use of W-P Funds and Communication between W-P and UI....................................................... 143 (e) Agricultural Outreach Plan (AOP) .............................................................................................................. 147 WAGNER-PEYSER ASSURANCES ...................................................................................................................... 160 VIII. ADULT EDUCATION AND FAMILY LITERACY PROGRAM ..................................................... 161 (a) Aligning of Content Standards ............................................................................................................. 161 (b) Local Activities ...................................................................................................................................... 161 (c) Corrections Education and other Education of Institutionalized Individuals ...................................... 163 (d) Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education Program .................................................................. 163 (e) State Leadership................................................................................................................................... 164 (f) Assessing Quality ..................................................................................................................................... 167

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ADULT EDUCATION AND FAMILY LITERACY ACT PROGRAM CERTIFICATIONS AND ASSURANCES ................ 169 IX. VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION .................................................................................................170

(a) Input of State Rehabilitation Council ......................................................................................................... 170 (b) Request for Waiver of Statewideness ....................................................................................................... 171 (c) Cooperative Agreements with Agencies Not Carrying Out Activities under the Statewide Workforce Development System ...................................................................................................................................... 172 (d) Coordination with Education Officials ....................................................................................................... 172 (e) Cooperative Agreements with Private Nonprofit Organizations............................................................... 176 (f) Arrangements and Cooperative Agreements for the Provision of Supported Employment Services .... 178 (g) Coordination with Employers .................................................................................................................... 178 (h) Interagency Cooperation ........................................................................................................................... 179 (i) Comprehensive System of Personnel Development; Data System on Personnel and Personnel Development ................................................................................................................................................... 180 (j) Statewide Assessment ................................................................................................................................ 186 (k) Annual Estimates........................................................................................................................................ 189 (l) State Goals and Priorities............................................................................................................................ 191 (m) Order of Selection..................................................................................................................................... 195 (n) Goals and Plans for Distribution of Title VI Funds ..................................................................................... 196 (o) State's Strategies ....................................................................................................................................... 197 (p) Evaluation and Reports of Progress........................................................................................................... 199 (q) Quality, Scope, and Extent of Supported Employment Services............................................................... 200 VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION CERTIFICATIONS AND ASSURANCES CERTIFICATIONS.................................. 201 APPENDICES ........................................................................................................................................ 206 Appendix A: Georgia Department of Labor's Business Services Unit ............................................................. 206 Appendix B: Performance Goals for the Core Programs ................................................................................ 208 Appendix C: LWDA Map .................................................................................................................................. 211 Appendix D: LWDA Regions Map .................................................................................................................... 212

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GOVERNOR'S LETTER March 2, 2020

As global corporations continue to choose Georgia to plant their next operation, and as homegrown companies expand, thousands of jobs are being created each year. This rapid job growth means we must take every measure to leverage our workforce development efforts in order to ensure that Georgia businesses have a strong and reliable workforce. In compliance with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), the State of Georgia has developed a comprehensive, data-driven set of goals for preparing an educated and skilled workforce. The 2020 Georgia Unified State Plan is the result of a collaboration amongst the Technical College System of Georgia, the Georgia Department of Labor, and the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency to identify successful strategies and best practices for aligning workforce development programs to support economic growth.

This Plan continues to align statewide efforts by combining federal, state, and local resources to meet the workforce needs in Georgia's diverse regional economies. It also enables workforce development leaders to customize their strategies to the real-time needs of employers while guiding services to reach Georgians at their point of need. As the WorkSource Georgia tagline states, we strive to "connect talent with opportunity."

In years past, the efforts of the workforce development system have aided Georgia in being ranked the No. 1 state in the nation in which to do business by several leading business and economic development publications. My goal is to bolster those efforts and ensure continued prosperity for all Georgians. This Plan helps establish and support the future of education, skills training and career preparation, providing a readily accessible pool of resources which will ensure that job seekers are equipped to enter the promising careers of tomorrow. Sincerely,

Brian P. Kemp Governor

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