La. Admin. Code tit. 40 § XIX-107

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XIX-107 - Criteria

A. Applicants must incorporate the goals of the workforce commission into their training program design and operation. The workforce commission's adopted goals focus on a workforce system that will become:

1. customer focused;

2. performance based;

3. market driven;

4. streamlined;

5. locally operated;

6. focused on the work ethic.

B. Community and technical college applicants must certify the existence of a partnership with one or more employers.

C. The proposed training program must incorporate industry-based skills standards. If such standards are not applicable to the type of training, the applicant must provide an explanation and must indicate an alternate standardized measure of skill acquisition.

D. The applicant and the employer partner must certify the need for job preparatory training by projecting job demand. The growth and demand job forecast, upon which the need is projected, must be substantiated.

E. The community and/or technical college applicant shall commit resources from its current budget toward the total costs for the proposed program or project.

F. Applicants must complete a budget for approval by the commission. Administrative costs shall not exceed 10 percent of costs.

G. The workforce commission shall work in consultation with employers, training providers and organized labor in determining the allocation of monies appropriated under this fund.

H. The workforce commission will consider the following factors in selecting awardees:

1. long-term program need (job demand);

2. level of employer interest and participation in program design and operation;

3. level of employer leveraged resources and financial assistance for the program;

4. number of employers served, particularly small employers;

5. amount of college's existing resources being converted to the proposed program;

6. strength and long-term viability of the partnership and program;

7. average hourly wage rates projected for employed trainees upon completion of training;

8. program accessibility in terms of scheduling;

9. opportunities for career advancement;

10. utilization of skill standards and industry-based certification or alternate standard measure of skill acquisition;

11. capacity for bringing qualified disadvantaged citizens, welfare-to-work participants, inmates or parolees into the workforce.

I. Program performance shall be based upon:

1. the performance standards adopted by the workforce commission, which measure the effectiveness of a training program in terms of:

a. placement (employment of participants upon completion or exit from program);

b. training-related placement;

c. adequacy of training;

d. customer satisfaction (The customers are both the employers who need trained workers and the citizens who seek training.); and

2. semi-annual progress reports submitted to the workforce commission for review and approval.

J. Awardees shall participate in the development of the Scorecard component of the Occupational Information System, which consists of a website display of performance data derived by matching participant exit data with agency databases, such as, with the Unemployment Insurance database from the Department of Labor.

K. Funds awarded shall be used to design or redesign a training program/project, and awardees shall plan for sustainability of a program/project following the cessation of award.

La. Admin. Code tit. 40, § XIX-107

Promulgated by the Office of the Governor, Office the Lifelong Learning, Workforce Commission, LR 24:2254 (December 1998).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 23:2055 and R.S. 23:2071.