Connecticut’s Workforce Boards Funded this Year by the: State of Connecticut With Leveraged Funds from Select Municipalities and Foundations, the Department.

Commission On Connecticut’s Future

November 6, 2014

Catherine N. AwwadExecutive Director

Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board

Connecticut’s Workforce Boards

Funded this Year by the:State of Connecticut

With Leveraged Funds from Select Municipalities and

Foundations, the Department of

Children and Families and the

Bureau of Rehabilitative Services

OVERSIGHTExecutive Committee of Consortium of Chief Elected Officials

meets to approve budget and priorities for the year in June

Executive Committee of Board meets monthly to conduct ongoing business of NRWIB- act on sub-committees recommendations, empowered by Annual Grant of Authority.

Full Board of Directors meet quarterly to set policy, receive programmatic and fiscal updates

Sub-Committees meet on ‘as-needed’ basis

Youth Council meets quarterly- Program Committee of Youth Council meets as needed to review RFP’s for IN and Out of school vendors. Recommendations then forwarded to Executive Committee / Full Board for action

Align workforce and education with economic development by:

*Convening strategic planning sessions

*Engaging industries to determine their needs as they relate to skill sets required for their workforce

*Assessing current skill sets and basic adult education level to provide ongoing training

necessary to remain competitive

Major Industry SectorsManufacturing

HealthcareConstruction/Brownfield Remediation

Workforce DemographicsSeptember 2014Unemployment:

Waterbury Labor Market 7.9%

Torrington Labor Market 5.2%

Danbury Labor Market 4.6%

Waterbury 9.8% Torrington 6.4% Danbury 4.6%

Employer Strategies Incumbent Worker trainingOn the Job Training grantsSTEP-UPSmall Business Express (DECD)Youth pipeline in dominate industry sectorsRecruitment, Screening and Placement ServicesEmployer SurveysTransportation Programs

Step-Up Numbers

258 245

213 222

Step Up 2 (Aug 2014) 45 Step Up 2 (Aug 2014) 23

Estimated Total Obligated $2,941,301.20 Estimated Total Obligated $1,910,424.25

Spent - Never Started $2,892,761.20 Spent - Never Started $1,844,461.7548,540.00$ $65,962.50

Step Up 1 $2,413,314.00 Step Up 1 $1,710,586.75

Step Up 2 $527,987.20 Step Up 2 $199,837.50

Spending Spending

Step Up 1 Step Up 1

Contract Breakdown

Subsidized Manufacturing Subsidized Training & Employment

Contract Written Contract Written

CT Department of Social Services Transportation Program

938 unduplicated riders for 12,524 > trips throughout the region (Waterbury, Danbury and Torrington).

Van pools, bus routes, customized second shift pick-up, evening reservations

Child-care pick-up/drop-offBus passesCar-based Solutions project

Individual Training Accounts PY 13-14

NUMBER AMOUNT

ADULT 102 $313,392DISLOCATED WORKER 264 $877,748TOTAL 366 $1,191,140

ManufacturingPlayed an integral role in creating partnerships between

industry and education to promote the ongoing development and growth of a manufacturing workforce

• USDOL : Advanced Manufacturing: Sector Strategy Planning

• CAMI Grant: NVCC & NWCC Advanced Manufacturing Technology Program

• W.F. Kaynor Voc-Tech High School Manufacturing Program

• Waterbury Career Academy- Manufacturing • College Connections- NVCC, Waterbury Board of

Education and NRWIB

• Working with CT DOL Office of Apprenticeship Training

Contractual Employers

Incumbent Employees To

Be Trained

Incumbent Employees

TrainedTo Date

Training Total By

Company Funding Allocation

Accrued

Expenditures

Match Amount

Cigna 1350 343 395 $880,000 $461,104.74 $417,872.95

IBM 1400 711 1677 $940,000 $607,713.23 $597,631.66

Barden Corporation 167 110 277 $498,150 $147,282.41 $143,451.40

Ward-Leonard 200 89 487 $268,800 $126,867.64 $192,321.90

Waterbury Hospital 27 10 17 $41,144 $33,639.00 $28,041.98

Industry Small Businesses * 400 26 26 $371,906 $38,543.66 $59,426.51

Sub-Total Employer Incumbent Worker Training Costs

$3,000,000 $1,415,150.68 $1,438,746.40

H-1B Technical Skills GrantBusiness Partners

Contractual Employers*Incumbent

Employees To Be Trained

Incumbent Employees

TrainedTo Date

Training Total By

Company Funding Allocation

Accrued Expenditures

Match Amount

Acme Monaco 9 9 9 $25,166.50 $20,067.36 $31,108.79

Parker 6 6 6 $12,890.00 $4,944.30 $8,165.00

Seitz 8 8 8 $13,532.00 $13,532.00 $20,152.72

Ensign – Bickford Aerospace Defense 175 $150,000.00

Sub-Total Employer Incumbent Worker Training Costs $201,588.50 $38,543.66 $59,426.51

H-1B Technical Skills GrantBusiness Partners

H1-B College Partners

Contractual Colleges Long Term Unemployed To Be Trained

LTU Trained/ In Training

To Date

Funding Allocation

Accrued Expenditures

Leveraged Funds

Naugatuck Valley Community College 10519

$298,861.40$39,603.90 $51,067.00

Northwestern Connecticut Community College

7211

$204,933.60$25,214.45 $18,914.90

University of Connecticut 35047

$996,205.00$102,848.20 $82,205.80

Sub-Total Long-Term Unemployed Training Costs

$1,500,000.00 $167,666.55 $152,187.70

Started as Waterbury project and has grown to be region-wideBoard of Alderman in Waterbury has designated the Board as

“First Source Referral Agency”. All city-funded construction projects must make “good faith”

effort to employ 30% local residents on project. The Board hosts job fairs in conjunction with Project contractors

and sub-contractors.Unions participate in job fairs to promote Apprenticeship

programs and union-based training opportunitiesCurrent guidelines suggest 30% local hire, 25% apprenticeship

hire and 10% minority hire.

Northwest Construction Career Initiative

Monitor Waterbury’s “Good Jobs” ordinance for covered projects.Compliance monitoring affords placement opportunities for NCCI.City contracts with NRWIB on multiple projects.

Good Jobs Administrator

Other Programs and Grants

Green Jobs Initiative – ConstructionEPA Brownfield Job Training-

Environmental RemediationTAA Community Colleges-

Health & Life Science Cluster CAMI

Performance AchievementADULT % of

Goal YOUTH % of Goal

Entered Employment 111.9% Employment/Education 105.0%Employment Retention 103.7 % Degree/Certificate 100.0%Average Earnings 92.8 % Literacy/ Numeracy 158.0%

DISLOCATED WORKERS

Entered Employment 100.7 %Employment Retention 98.9 %Average Earnings 86.8 %

Continue to build a strong education pipeline capable of producing skilled

workers with competencies required to meet the needs of business.

“more than 80% of jobs today’s kindergarteners will occupy sometime

in the future, don’t exist yet!”