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DOL/ETA Oregon "mini-SMART 3.0 Training" Materials 

SMART 3.0 CONFERENCE 2019
October 22-24, 2019 - Salem, OR 
 
Day 1 October 22
1:00 – 1:15     Welcome – DOL
1:15 – 2:00     Introduction to SMART Training and Formula Grant Overview – Tom DiLisio
2:00 – 3:00     ETA Grant Management Overview & Readiness – Thou Ny and Yazmin Escorcia
3:00 – 3:15     Break
3:15 – 4:30     Uniform Guidance: Cost Principles 
– Tom DiLisio and Thou Ny
4:30 – 5:00     Wrap–up: Q & A session


Day 2 October 23
8:15 – 8:30      Welcome and Recap of Day 1                
8:30 – 10:00    Financial Management Procedures & Internal Controls – Yazmin Escorcia and Thou Ny
10:00 – 10:15  Break
10:15 – 11:45  Subrecipient Management & Oversight – Thou Ny and Tom DiLisio
11:45 – 12:45  Lunch Break
12:45 – 2:15    Cost Allocation Plans & Indirect Costs  –  Tom DiLisio and Yazmin Escorcia
2:15 – 2:30      Break
2:30 – 4:00      Procurement & Contract Administration – Yazmin Escorcia and Tom DiLisio
4:00 – 4:30      Wrap–up: Q & A session

          
Day 3 October 24
8:15 – 8:30       Welcome and Recap of Day 2                
8:30 – 10:00     Fiscal Overview 101 – HECC
10:00 – 10:15   Break
10:15 – 11:15   Financial Reporting – Thou Ny
11:15 – 11:45   Wrap–up: Q&A



​2019 WIOA Statewide Conference Materials

Wednesday, April 10th                                                         8am-5pm

8:00 – 9:30 : Registration Open
9:30 : General Session
  • Welcome/Conference Open
    • Bridget Dazey; Chair, Oregon Workforce Partnership, Executive Director, Clackamas Workforce Partnership
    • Kurt Tackman; Deputy Director of Workforce Investments, Higher Education Coordinating Commission, Office of Workforce Investments
10:00 : General Session
  • Current Workforce Gaps & Future Workforce Needs
  • Nick Beleiciks; State Employment Economist, Oregon Employment Department
Oregon has enjoyed solid job growth over the past few years, adding jobs faster than the nation and frequently ranking among the fastest-growing states. The relative abundance of job opportunities and scarcity of job applicants is making it difficult for businesses to fill vacancies. Will these issues persist into the future? Will they be worse in some areas of the state? Information from Oregon’s quarterly job vacancy survey of businesses and long-term employment projections, available freely to everybody, reveals Oregon’s current workforce gaps and helps identify Oregon’s future workforce needs.
11:30 : Break/Lunch Buffet
12:00 : Lunch Keynote
  • 2030: The Workplace Revolution
  • Josh Davies; Center for Work Ethic Development
The modern workplace is constantly evolving and changing, with some jobs going away (switchboard operator) and others being created (app developer). But every 30 years, a new wave of technology fundamentally changes the workplace. Assembly lines, computers, and the internet all dramatically shifted the nature of work and changed the American workplace. Looking ahead to 2030, there is another revolutionary wave that is going to crash the future of work in America. The combination of automation and artificial intelligence will create a new revolution that will destroy not just jobs but potentially entire industries.  Rather than sit back and hope, now is the time to prepare for the coming reality of 2030. We need to be developing the revolutionaries of the future! There will still be jobs, but they will require a different set of skills and abilities. Don’t sit back and let the waves drag you down, choose instead to ride the coming revolution – and come out on top!
1:15 : Break – Move to Breakout Sessions
1:30 : Breakouts
  • Work Ethic : The Building Blocks of the 21st Century Workforce
  • Josh Davies; Center for Work Ethic Development
 
Work ethic - sometimes called soft skills – are emerging as critical skills for the future. Students with strong non-cognitive skills graduate college at nearly double the average rate. Nearly 9 out of 10 hiring managers nationwide say work ethic is their most important factor in hiring. The challenge is that fewer than 1 in 5 students have these basic skills, and almost all education is focused on academic and cognitive skills. However, new strategies in developing work ethic are making a huge difference with diverse populations around the world.  This engaging and interactive presentation highlights simple training and leadership approaches that everyone can use. By analyzing employer-based research, defining the seven behaviors of work ethic, and applying innovative teaching methodology, participants discover how to make lasting behavior change. Discover how you can build the foundational behaviors of work ethic and build the critical skills for the 21st Century!
  • I-Trac Reports
    • Jen Medhaug; Worksystems
 
Review reports navigation and standard report definitions.  Learn ways to customize and save your own report parameters for easy access.  Gain a better understanding of how report output aligns with data input so you can tell an accurate story.
  • Work Readiness Partnerships – New World of Work 21st Century Skills
  • Rajinder Gill; Co-Creator and Content Development Director, New World of Work
  • Kaitlynn Chritton; Senior Project Manager, Worksystems
Worksystems, the Portland Metro Workforce Development Board, and New World of Work, a 21st Century Skills program headquartered in the California Community Colleges system, have partnered to bring free employability skills curriculum and digital badges to programs across Oregon.  This workshop will provide participants an overview of the open source content they can use to teach the “Top 10” 21st Century Skills, examples how to incorporate 21st Century Skills into work experience opportunities, the positive impact on youth and adult learners, and a mini-lesson to demo the content.
3:00 : Break
3:15 : Breakouts
  • Work Ethic: The Building Blocks of the 21st Century Workforce (Repeat)
  • Josh Davies
 
Work ethic - sometimes called soft skills – are emerging as critical skills for the future. Students with strong non-cognitive skills graduate college at nearly double the average rate. Nearly 9 out of 10 hiring managers nationwide say work ethic is their most important factor in hiring. The challenge is that fewer than 1 in 5 students have these basic skills, and almost all education is focused on academic and cognitive skills. However, new strategies in developing work ethic are making a huge difference with diverse populations around the world.  This engaging and interactive presentation highlights simple training and leadership approaches that everyone can use. By analyzing employer-based research, defining the seven behaviors of work ethic, and applying innovative teaching methodology, participants discover how to make lasting behavior change. Discover how you can build the foundational behaviors of work ethic and build the critical skills for the 21st Century!
  • I-Trac Reports (Repeat)
  • Heather Fercho; Worksystems
 
Review reports navigation and standard report definitions.  Learn ways to customize and save your own report parameters for easy access.  Gain a better understanding of how report output aligns with data input so you can tell an accurate story.
  • Building the STREAM LAB/MakerSpace: Innovating to Engage Youth
  • Mona K-Hinds; Principal Youth Advisor, Community Services Consortium Polk County
  • Sean Larsen/Joshua Hjelmberg/Morea Lloyd; Community Services Consortium
 
WIOA youth providers are required to achieve a variety of specific outcomes dictated by federal and local policies and the days fill quickly working to deliver services and meet outcomes. This workshop explores how Community Services Consortium worked with community partners to create a hands-on, small-scale manufacturing venture – or MakerSpace – where 3d printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, embroidery machines, laser cutters, desktop CNC machines, and heat presses have placed WIOA youth in the center of the action. We will explore how the program grew out of being part of a MakerSpace pilot project to forming its own community-based program with a focus on education, technology and entrepreneurial education.
4:45 : Closing Session
  • Review Day
  • Review Tomorrow
  • What’s Out & About in Eugene


 Thursday, April 11th                                                            8am-5:15pm
8:00 : Breakfast Available
8:30 : General Session
  • Local Business Perspective
  • Panel of Local Business Representatives to discuss their engagement with Workforce Development Programs
Five employers who have partnered with the workforce system for OJTs and Work Experience will discuss their involvement with WorkSource services.  Panelists will describe how they’ve benefitted from  WIOA services, and how WIOA can better partner with businesses in the future.
10:00 : Break
10:15 : General Session
  • Registered Apprenticeships Overview
  • Shaun Engstrom; Office of Workforce Investments/Bureau of Labor and Industries
  • Gabby Nunley; Oregon Department of Education
This session is intended to give participants a basic level of knowledge about the registered apprenticeship system in Oregon. Participants will learn basic apprenticeship terminology, program structures, and how to assist customers interested in apprenticeship opportunities.
11:45 : Break/Lunch Buffet
12:15 : Lunch Keynote
  • Helping Customers Make Life Changes
  • Jodie Sue Kelly; Cygnet Associates
WIOA gives priority to a harder to serve clientele.  Harder to serve are also harder to motivate and harder to help. This session is drawn from motivational interviewing and is designed to help you to understand how people change and how case managers can assess a client’s readiness to make a change.
1:30 : Break/Move to Breakout Sessions
1:45 : Breakouts
  • Using Motivational Interviewing Techniques Working with Clients
  • Jodie Sue Kelly
 
We all want to “help” people but sometimes wanting to help a client leads to trying to “fix” the client and it is impossible to “fix” others.  Motivational interviewing is generally short-term counseling that requires just one or two sessions, though it can also be included as an intervention along with other, longer-term coaching sessions.   There are five fundamental skills that practitioners must learn and practice in order to be adept at using motivational interviewing techniques.  At this session, we will review the skills, give you a chance to practice those skills and talk about when to use them with clients.
  • WIOA Performance Reports
  • Jen Medhaug; Worksystems
 
Navigate WIOA Performance Reports / Understand Numerators & Denominators / Understand how to use Reports to investigate and solve performance data questions
  • Registered Apprenticeships Panel (Apprenti, Construction, Medical Assistant)
    • Kelly Haines; Worksystems
    • Alane Jennings; Southwestern Oregon Workforce Investment Board
    • Stephen Parac; XS Media
    • Kyle Stevens; Southwestern Oregon Workforce Investment Board
    • Facilitator: Stefanie Siebold; East Cascades Works
 
Learn about three local areas’ innovative apprenticeship development activities in the Healthcare, Tech and Construction sectors.
3:15 : Break
3:30 : Breakouts
  • Engagement, Participation and Motivation
  • Jodie Sue Kelly
 
A key skill which helps us to create successful relationships with our customers is being able to look at our systems from the perspective of our customers.  By understanding someone else’s viewpoint, we find what they need and want from us, how they are doing with our services and as a result, how we can build a better experience.  This session will cover how to learn from your customer’s view of how to build a better program.  Staff will be able to identify points in the program process which are the most likely to lead to disengagement and lack of participation.
  • WIOA Performance Reports (Repeat)
  • Heather Fercho; Worksystems
 
Navigate WIOA Performance Reports / Understand Numerators & Denominators / Understand how to use Reports to investigate and solve performance data questions
  • Small Business Certifications – Workforce Partnerships
  • Daniel Jackson; Certification Specialist, Certification Office for Business Inclusion and Diversity
 
The Certification Office for Business Inclusion and Diversity (COBID) provides certifications for small businesses owned by Minorities, Women and Service-Disabled Veterans as well as Emerging Small Businesses.  The certifications connect small businesses to public procurement opportunities with both State and Local governments.  Governor Brown also signed Executive Order 18-03 in March 2018 encouraging all State agencies to use COBID Certified firms.  Understanding COBID certifications provides a business outreach specialist with additional tools to share with businesses in any region.  This workshop will cover an overview of certification and resources available to new businesses and those already receiving services.
5:00 : Closing Session
  • Review Day
  • Review Tomorrow
  • What’s Out & About in Eugene
 

 Friday, April 12th                                                              8am - noon

8:00 : Breakfast Available
8:30 : Local Area Breakout
  • Gather together with your local team members to talk about what you are taking away from the conference
10:00 : Break
10:15 : Partnerships
  • Panel discussion highlighting three examples of local area partnership;
  • Amy Black; Clackamas Workforce Partnership
  • Narek Daniyelyan; Workforce Southwest Washington
  • Victoria Libov; Worksystems
  • Facilitator: Bryan Fuentez; Clackamas Workforce Partnership
Through a facilitated discussion, representatives from local boards share three different approaches to developing great partnerships that focus on the needs of the participants. 
11:45 : Close
  • Oregon Workforce Partnership Compliance Advisory Committee 
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