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Strategic Planning for Long Islandin the 21st Century

Economic Growth/Labor Force Issues

Long Island’s Key Growth IndustriesWhat Business Needs to SucceedEntry Level Workers – Are They Ready?Staffing Your IndustryTraining Your Staff

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Long Island’s Key Growth Industries

Defense Homeland Security Biosciences Information Technology Health Care Retail Travel and Tourism

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Skills Your Employees Need for Your Business to Succeed

Supervisory New technology Team building Customer satisfaction Blue print reading Literacy training Etc.

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Entry Level Workers – Are They Ready?

Do they have the required basic (reading, writing, math, communications), social and work skills?

Do they understand the organizational culture?

Do they share the organization’s ethics and values?

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Recruitment – Steps to Market Your Staffing Needs

Create a staffing and skill paradigm to help attract workers to your industry

Set up productive internships

Get your message to schools and other providers

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Education and Training Solutions

Customized TrainingOn-The-Job TrainingE-LearningAdult Education and LiteracyPre-Vocational TrainingWork Readiness

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Sectoral Approach

Acrobat Document

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Niche Labor Market

Acrobat Document

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Career Mapping

Consultants funded by Workforce New York Long-term career progression pathways Framework for lifelong learning that begins with basic

skills and integrate education with work Shows individuals how to advance, particularly in high

wage, high growth fields such as IT and biotechnology Leads to higher level of skills, responsibility and wages Helps employers to attract and retain qualified workers

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Models for Addressing Skills Shortages in the Health Care Sector

South Nassau Communities Hospital (SNCH) Career Ladder Training to address the shortage of registered nurses

Winthrop University Hospital Leadership Training for managers, administrators and supervisors to increase retention of health care workers

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RN Career Ladder# Occupation

1. RN (Four-Year Degree)

2. RN (Two-Year Degree)

3. LPN

4. Nurse Aid

5. Comfort Squad (Per Diem)

6. Bed and Bath Squad (Per Diem)

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Health Care Management Training Topics

Effective LeadershipCommunicationStrategic PlanningMarketing the OrganizationTime and Project ManagementCompetitive Strategy

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Sample Resource Leveraging Plan

# Funding Source Strategy

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TANF Health Worker Training Initiative – Hospital Sector RFA (NYSDOL)

Train TANF eligible new hires as Nurse Aides

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Supplemental General Hospital Recruitment and Retention Rate Adjustment Program RFA (NYSDOH)

Equip incumbent workers in various occupations with the skills necessary to retain their current positions

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Moving New York Forward: Career Ladders RFP (NYSDOL)

Train entry level, incumbent workers to move up to the position of Senior Biller

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WIA Adult Formula Customized Training Train Bed and Bath and Comfort Squad incumbent workers to move up to Nurse Aide

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WIA Statewide Assessment of Local Skills Shortages Phase II RFA (NYSDOL)

Train incumbent workers at various career ladder rungs to advance to R.N.

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Health Workforce Retraining Initiative RFP (NYSDOL/NYSDOH)

Train incumbent workers and new hires to gain skills not addressed by other sources.

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i-Park (Biotechnology Sector)

Long Island Bioscience Partners

Cooperative Training Center

Business Incubator

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BioPartners Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory North Shore Long island Jewish Research

Institute Brookhaven National Laboratory Plum Island Animal Disease Control Center FDA Northeast Regional Laboratory State University of New York - Stony Brook Rockefeller University Columbia University

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Defense/Homeland Security/Aerospace Alliances

Aerospace and Defense Diversification Alliance in Peacetime Transition (ADDAPT)

Long Island Forum for Technology (LIFT)

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Customized Training Designed to meet the special requirements of an

employer or group of employers

Conducted with a commitment by the employer to employ, or in the case of incumbent workers, continue to employ an individual on successful completion of training

Employer pays for not less than 50 percent of the cost of the training

Results in significant wage gain for trainees

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Customized Training for Incumbent Workers

The employee is not earning a self-sufficient wage as determined by the Town of Hempstead Workforce Investment Board (i.e. 40.00 per hour or less)

The training relates to the introduction of new technologies, introduction to new production or service procedures, upgrading to new jobs that require additional skills, workplace literacy, or other appropriate purposes identified by the Workforce Investment Board

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New York State Department of Labor Request For Applications (RFA) Number 25-M ADVANCE New York

The New York State Department of Labor has issued Request For Applications (RFA) Number 25-M, entitled “ADVANCE-New York.” The purpose of this Request for Applications (RFA) is to is to support employer strategies and local efforts for lifelong learning for the development of the incumbent (employed) worker by providing funds for upgrading the occupational skills of those workers.

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New York State Department of Labor Request For Applications (RFA) Number 25-M ADVANCE-NY (continued)

ADVANCE-NY will provide funds to businesses to train incumbent workers in specific occupational skills needed by that business or industry and that lead to career growth and increased wages. The position(s) targeted for training must exist and be filled at the time the application is submitted. The applicant must demonstrate that the training will result in the workers' acquisition of transferable occupational skills. Public – that is federal, state, county and municipal - employees are not eligible to be trained under this initiative.

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New York State Department of Labor Request For Applications (RFA) Number 25-M, ADVANCE-NY (continued)

ADVANCE-NY uses Workforce Investment Act (WIA) monies to address employer demands for skilled workers. The program will fund projects that solve workforce problems by addressing identified skilled worker shortages within an industry or within a single employer's establishment through promoting occupational skills upgrading for incumbent workers.

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Pre-Vocational Skills Training

Learning SkillsCommunication SkillsInterviewing SkillsPunctualityPersonal Maintenance SkillsProfessional Conduct

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Customized Employment• Individualizes the employment relationship

between employees and employers in ways that meet the needs of both

• Based on an individualized determination of strengths, needs, and interests of a person with a disability

• Also designed to meet the specific needs of an employer

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Business Service Team VisionWe envision an innovative, high quality service for businesses on Long Island that establishes and maintains:

Multiple points of entry where businesses can obtain coordinated assistance in recruiting, training and developing workers

A customer-friendly process for leveraging available resources from a variety of funding streams in response to business, employment, community and economic development needs

A public-private sector partnership working to continually improve the quality of the Long Island workforce, business climate and economy

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Business Services Team Mission Plan, create and implement initiatives that help

businesses to hire, train, educate, upgrade and retain skilled workers

Collaborate to identify and access grant funds that will assist businesses to develop our local workforce and strengthen our economy

Rapidly respond to changing needs of businesses, with input from the business customer, to ensure maximization of all available resources from the workforce investment system

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Creative Recruitment Strategies Flexible Work Schedules

Job Sharing

Customized Employment/Job Carving

Hiring Older Workers

Internships

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Creative Training Strategies• Industrial/Business Association Partnerships

• Mentoring

• Internships

• Apprenticeships

• Distance Learning/Teleconferencing

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Business Involvement in the Workforce System

• Membership on the LWIB, Youth Council, etc.

• Provide Labor Market Information

• Advocate/Champion

• Continuous Improvement Awards

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Contact Information• www.workforcenewyork.org• www.hempsteadworks.com

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Next Steps