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Strategic Goal 1

Strategic Objective 1.2 – Provide marketable skills and knowledge to increase workers’ incomes and help them

overcome barriers to the middle class through partnerships among business, education, labor, community

organizations and the workforce system

Analysis and Future Plans

Employment and Training Administration

Through investments in youth education and training programs under the WIA Youth formula program, Job Corps, YouthBuild, Trade Adjustment

Assistance Community College and Career (TAACCCT) grants, the Department worked to increase the number of participants earning industry-recognized

credentials. The Apprenticeship, Job Corps, WIA Youth, and YouthBuild programs exceeded their degree or certificate attainment targets in PY 2012,

while the Job Corps attained its target for the placement in employment, education, or training measure by showing significant gains over the previous two

program years. The FY 2013-2015 targets are based on a methodology developed by DOL for setting national performance targets using regression

analysis. This econometric model uses program results from the prior year, current labor market conditions and individual characteristics to correct for the

effects of the business cycle and labor market conditions on the outcomes of employment and training programs, producing targets that objectively reflect

the impact of the economic environment on program performance.

In PY 2012, DOL funded and began to enroll participants in the Face Forward grant program. “Face Forward” conveys the idea of youth leaving their past

transgressions behind and looking forward towards a promising future. Through diversion and/or record expungement strategies, these grants give youth a

chance to succeed in the workplace and to avoid the stigma of a juvenile record. The Face Forward grants offer organizations the opportunity to develop

programs that address this issue while developing the skills and opportunity youth need to move forward successfully in the workforce.

ETA promotes increased partnerships and collaboration with sponsors of Registered Apprenticeship (including employers) and the workforce and education

systems. The 2012 evaluation of Registered Apprenticeship found that the net benefits for completers of an apprenticeship program were approximately

$250,000 while the net social benefits were over $50,000. Therefore, ETA promotes greater partnerships with WIA and a framework for quality pre-

apprenticeship programs to provide a pathway into Registered Apprenticeship. Additionally, ETA and VETS will coordinate so that service members and

veterans receive credit for military training and experience to shorten the duration of apprenticeships. ETA is also collaborating with the Department of

Education to increase the articulation of an apprenticeship completion certificate to college credit.

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