Click on the chart below to learn more about each of the local area practices that have received a Promising Practice II incentive award. You will find a summary of the practice and process steps that will assist you in replicating those practices that may be adaptable to your local area. A contact name, number and e-mail address are provided if you would like additional information or have questions about a particular practice. For Promising Practices II, applications were submitted in the following categories:
Category 1: Services to Business Customers
Category 2: Services to Job Seekers
Category 3: Local Board Development/Practices
Category 4: One Stop Design and Management
Category 5: Workforce Development Partnership Initiatives
| Local Workforce Investment Area(s) | Promising Practice Category | Brief Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GLOW Genesee/Livingston/Orleans/Wyoming | #1 – Services to Business Customers | GLOW Funding Application Consultant Team (FACT) – One Stop System partner staff acting as advisors to businesses to help them take advantage of grant opportunities |
| 2 | WIB of Herkimer, Madison and Oneida Counties | #1 - Services to Business Customers | Career Ladder Program for Entry-Level Health Care Workers was developed to help relieve shortages and improve retention through a partnership among a medical center, training provider and the local WIB and Workforce Development agency. |
| #5 - Workforce Development Partnership Initiative | The Ladder to the Future program used outreach and community partnerships to increase numbers of youth and adults referred to the One-Stop System, increase funding and resources for the systems and create partnerships that can help sustain the effort. | ||
| 3 | Broome/Tioga Workforce Development Area | #1 - Services to Business Customers | Warehouse and Distribution Skills Certification Project –Workforce partners came together to remedy the gap between supply and demand for workers in warehousing and distribution. It resulted in the creation of a local warehouse industry credential and establishment of a regional Warehouse/Distribution Training Center. |
| #5 - Workforce Development Partnership Initiatives | CareerBuilder Weekly Project - Each week for more than two years, Broome-Tioga Works and the Press & Sun Bulletin have produced a weekly feature to educate the paper's more than 200,000 readers on the changing world of work, and resources available locally to assist them in addressing these changes. | ||
| 4 | Tompkins County Workforce Development Board | #4 – One Stop Design and Management | Development and Implementation of a Resource Sharing Agreement. The Resource Sharing Agreement was developed by the Partners’ Table of Tompkins Workforce New York. All partners were experiencing funding challenges and were interested in pursuing alternative methods for meeting their MOU obligations. Partners acknowledged that there needed to be more direct involvement in service delivery at the one-stop in order to improve integration, increase referrals, and increase staff knowledge of one-stop services. |
| 5 | Town of Hempstead | #4 – One Stop Design and Management | The Hempstead Works “Whatever It Takes” (HWWIT) Project increases access to the One-Stop system for individuals with disabilities through system enhancements, staff capacity-building, development of new sources of funding, efficient leveraging of partner resources and redesign of the system and full service center. The project is operated by a consortium of local partners that is led by a Strategic Planning Team. The Team reports to the local Workforce Investment Board. |
| 6 | WIB ofColumbia and Greene Counties | #1 - Services to Business Customers | A business social skills trianing program for employees of local companies, developed into a customized training program with a WIB certified credential.
An out-of-school youth internship program serving high-risk participants that provides the opportunity for them to develop job specific and job holding skills through coordinated projects co-sponsored by local housing agencies. |
| 7 | Monroe County/Rochester | #1 – Services to Business Customers | Successful marketing initiatives relating to the BUSINYS grant are described along with technical support services, which have resulted in over $2M in local grant awards for upgrading the skills of 2,500 workers in FY02. |
| 8 | Orange County | #4 – One-Stop Design and Management | Services Coordination and Integration Matrix – Orange Works developed and implemented a practice that organized the multitude of services available to TANF customers via the One Stop operation in Newburgh. This system provided a structure that enables staff to better serve customers through increased efficiency and coordination of services. |