W ORKFORCE D ATA QUALITY INITIATIVE LONGITUDINAL DATA FOR PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Vocational Rehabilitation Annual Summit September 10, 2015.

WORKFORCE DATA QUALITY INITIATIVE

LONGITUDINAL DATA FOR PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Vocational Rehabilitation Annual Summit

September 10, 2015

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[VIDEO PLACEHOLDER]

WHAT IS WDQI FOR?

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1.Develop longitudinal data systems

2.Match workforce & education data

3.Improve data quality4.Evaluate performance5.Make data available to

consumers

WDQI AWARDSOne round of funding Two rounds of funding

WHAT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IS AVAILABLE?

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• Webinars and working groups

• Online Community of Practice

• Coaching

• Annual conference

OUR COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

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• Incorporating data from lots of partners

• Making tools for consumers, administrators, researchers, policymakers

• Calculating performance• Doing research• Affecting policy

WHAT ARE GRANTEES DOING?

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INCORPORATING DATA FROM PARTNERS

K-12

Higher Ed (public, private)

Adult Education,

CTEOther!

Vocational Rehabilitat

ion Services

Health & Human Services

UI Wages

Unemployment Benefits

TAA, Wagner- Peyser, WIOA

& MAKING SYSTEMS WORK!

(Kansas’s authentication process)

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MAKING DATA USE TOOLS AVAILABLE

• Minnesota’s Graduate Employment Outcomes

• Mississippi Works• Missouri’s Wage Explorer• NC TOWER • South Dakota’s

Postsecondary Graduate Employment & Wage Outcomes system

• Texas CREWS

MISSISSIPPI WORKS

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CALCULATING PERFORMANCE

• Idaho now submits WIA and Wagner-Peyser performance reports to DOL via its LDS

• Ohio’s Workforce Success Measures• Virginia’s Workforce System Report Card • New Jersey is

preparing for changes to performance brought by WIOA

• Wyoming calculates performance measures for ABE and community college TAACCCT grantees 

OHIO WIA PERFORMANCEREPORT

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PROVIDING LEADERS WITH INFORMATION

• Arkansas’s Economic Security Reports, now required by Act 852

• Kentucky Center for Education & Workforce Statistics County Profiles

• Mississippi’s Life Tracks• Rhode Island Data Hub’s Data Stories

RHODE ISLAND’S DATA STORIES

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CHANGING THE POLICY CONVERSATION

• Illinois distinguishes between “Conventional

Narratives” and “Enhanced Narratives” • Indiana hones in on the occupation data

gap• Minnesota shows program alignment is

more important than attendance numbers • Virginia and Pennsylvania publicize key

policy questions

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MINNESOTA SHIFTS THE CONVERSATION

Focus less on sending more people to college to aligning programs to the skills that employers seek:

LET ME KNOW IF I CAN HELP YOU GET IN TOUCH WITH THE WDQI TEAM IN YOUR

STATE!

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Melissa Mack Workforce Data Quality

Initiative Technical Assistance

Social Policy Research Associates