Workforce Development
Workforce Solutions for North Central Texas is dedicated to promoting and supporting a workforce that offers employers, individuals and communities the opportunity to achieve and sustain economic prosperity. During times with limited resources, we strive to seek out technological innovations and administrative efficiencies that will allow us to devote our outstanding services to all of our employers and job seekers. Workforce Solutions for North Central Texas will achieve greater success by focusing on five important regional issues.
Major Issues
 ISSUE: Business Driven Workforce Systems.
- Vision of Success:
A demand-driven system aimed at meeting the human resource and workforce development needs of business in the competitive global economy.
- Steps to Success:
- Identify business trends and industry sector skill needs.
- Develop inter-related strategies to improve the system’s responsiveness to business needs.
- Leveraging technological advancements to streamline our service delivery model to increase accessibility for our external and internal customers.
- Coordinate the effective use of available funding throughout the region and increase private sector financial contributions.
- Address contemporary work/family issues such as an aging population.
- Indicators of Success:
- Increase the number of industry-driven training projects.
- Develop vocational education strategies addressing industry needs and trends.
- Improve economic growth with increased productivity and competitiveness.
ISSUE: Developing Qualified Job Seekers.
- Vision of Success: Provide tools and strategies to develop a knowledgeable and skilled regional workforce that integrates every available worker.
- Steps to Success:
- Develop initiatives and opportunities that work towards increasing the knowledge and skills necessary for economic independence and life-long learning.
- Implement projects to address language and cultural barriers in addition to accessibility projects to focus on the needs of disabled workers.
- Build upon current endeavors related to transportation and supportive service issues including child care and housing.
- Collaborate to address the needs of out-of-school youth.
- Indicators of Success:
- Enhanced employment, retention, and earnings for individuals.
- Increased occupational skill attainment.
- Training provider accountability.
- Increased customer choice and satisfaction.
 ISSUE: A Dynamic Regional Workforce Development System.
- Vision of Success: Combine employment, economic development, education and the expertise of all workforce boards in our sixteen-county region through strategic, targeted initiatives that impact the capacity and effectiveness of the system strengthening the regional economy.
- Steps to Success:
- Build upon prior successes such as economic development and education summits.
- Augment strategic partnerships with chambers of commerce, apprenticeship programs, and Job Corps.
- Strengthen industry related projects and enhance collaboration with regional economic development ventures.
- Unite workforce boards in communications with the state to create a stronger voice and representation in state government.
- Partnerships in procurement to create stronger buying power and economies of scale.
- Indicators of Success:
- Increased economic growth and economic development initiatives.
- Flexibility to changing economic conditions.
- Increased non-financial partnerships with other organizations.
- Continued recognition of “best practices” at state and national levels.
- Cost savings in procurement.
ISSUE: Alignment of Local Workforce Priorities and Accountabilities with the State.
- Vision of Success: A workforce system that is consistently one of the top performing large boards, that remains aware of and compliant with all current state policies and regulations, and that is at the forefront of new initiatives and mandates issued by the Texas Workforce Commission.
- Steps to Success:
- Maintain updated performance data from the state as well as local data systems.
- Stay current on research published by the Texas Workforce Commission.
- Stay cognizant of the political climate in Austin by cultivating relationships with TWC personnel and other workforce boards throughout the state.
- Seek legal clarification of new state policy and regulations and provide comment when given the opportunity.
- Keep contractors informed of new policy and regulation.
- Indicators of Success:
- Consistently ranked in the top three performing large boards.
- Decreased number of compliance related sanctions.
- Decreased number of state-mandated performance improvement plans.
ISSUE: Alternative Funding Sources.
- Vision of Success: Funding streams comprised of federal, state, and private dollars to finance the implementation of innovative approaches and strategies within workforce.
- Steps to Success:
- Identify public and private grantors with workforce-related funding priorities.
- Continual development and planning of pilot projects to be implemented as grant funds become available.
- Indicators of Success:
- Increased number of grant applications.
- Increased grant awards.
- Multiple funding sources for large scale demonstration projects.
- Cultivated relationships with private grantors.
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