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2014 Milestone Report

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IntroductionCurrent Conditions

New authorizing Federal legislation

Results of election

Challenges of an improving economy

New performance

Grant opportunities

New partnerships


CareerSource Broward - Goals Improve the sustainability of the workforce system

through increased funding, efficiency, and relevancy.

Maintain our roles as workforce development leaders.

Encourage employers and job seekers to choose the one-stop for services.

Align Broward’s services to maximize employment and training opportunities for targeted populations.

Preserve local control, while continuing to serve the Broward community.

Redesign and implement a more effective out-of-school youth program.

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Sustainability

GOAL


New FundsLocal and State grants awarded:

Facilitated 17 State Incumbent Worker Training grants totaling $282,751 assisting 1,625 employees

Coordinated 3 Quick Response Training grants totaling $285,794 for 186 employees

New Unrestricted Revenue: $324,280 Ticket-to-Work revenue for the year

totaling $780,555 since inception

$13,800 Florida Ready to Work revenue


New FundsCSBD Received: $1.77 million from CSC, the Cities of Fort Lauderdale,

Hallandale Beach, Sunrise, Lauderdale Lakes, and Broward County for SYEP

$700,983 three-year Disability Employment Initiative Grant to serve customers with disabilities

$465,000 to provide entrepreneurial training through Startup Quest

$606,000 for a Job Driven – National Emergency Grant

$4,782,800 added to our $20,424,745 PY 13-14 formula allocation totaling $25,207,545


New Funds $51,666 in Rebranding Incentive Funds

$35,667 in Veteran’s Incentive Funds

$30,393 in WIA Performance Incentive Funds

$270,240 in Wagner-Peyser Performance Incentive Funds

All these incentives dollars received were put back into programs

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Maintain Our Roles as

Workforce Development

Leaders

GOAL


Leadership Investments in the Future:

Serve on FWDA Board of Directors

Work on state policy issues

Serve on board of national organizations

• United States Conference of Mayors

• National Workforce Association

“Go to” for monthly unemployment figures and commentary

CareerSource Florida IT Procurement Committee


Speaker and ModeratorSenior Executive Orientation

Leadership Broward

Leadership Ft. Lauderdale

Coral Springs Leadership Business and Economic Development Day

Ft. Lauderdale Crystal Ball Forum

South Florida Business Journal Critical Conversations Panel

Ft. Lauderdale Chamber Leadership

Leadership


Sharpening the SawFront-line staff and supervisors received

an average of 24 hours of training in PY 13 – 14

Trainings were delivered by the State, outside vendors, and in-house staff

Leadership


CSBD staff participates in approximately 50 Broward County and Statewide committees

Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance Governor’s Council, Board of Directors, Executive, E2B2 Action Team, and Education Action Team Committees

Early Learning Coalition Board, Executive, Nominating and Governance Committees

Coordinating Council of Broward Board and Quality of Life and Steering Committees

Chair, Permitting Action Team (18 Platinum cities year-to-date)

Member, Port Everglades Action Team

Children’s Services Council Leadership Coalition

Community Involvement


Executive Leadership Orientation Steering / Goals / Economy / Workforce & IT Committees

Broward League of Cities SFHHA Workforce

Committee Florida Economic

Development Council Community Foundation of

Broward Education Cabinet Six Pillars Steering / Talent

Supply and Education Committees

Mission United Advisory Committee

Uptown Fort Lauderdale ChildNet Foster Care/Education

Steering Committee Veterans Symposium South Florida Disabilities

Business Leadership Network Broward Days Subcommittee –

Post Secondary Education & Workforce Development



Broward Workshop Education and Youth Advocacy Committee

Hope4Vets Collaborative 17th Judicial Circuit Juvenile

Justice Circuit Advisory Board

Broward County Public Schools various subcommittees

Envision Uptown Inc., Leader 2 Leader FRLA Broward Board Homeless Continuum of

Care Board

Local Coordinating Board for Transportation Disadvantaged & Chaired the Annual Review Committee

Broward School’s Career Placement Advisory Committee

Children’s Service Council – Transition to Independence and Youth Employment Committees

211 Prosperity Committee Chair of State’s Workforce IT

Group State’s Finance Officer’s Group



Participated in over 60 community events reaching over 8,000 job seekers and employers

Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz Small Business & Leadership Workshop

Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz and Congressman Deutch Veterans and Military Job Fair

Senator Sachs Veteran’s Fair

Rep. Gwyndolen Clarke-Reed Veteran’s Job and Resource Fair

Rep. Shevrin Jones Community Expo

Mayor Barbara Sharief Job, Housing and Healthcare Fair

Paychecks for Patriots ( over 50 employers and community agencies and over 275 Veterans)

Hosted 3 Employer Forums (Automotive, Construction and Hospitality/ Tourism)

Outreach Events


City of Miramar Veteran Job Fair, Doing Business Event and Career Fair

Pompano Community Redevelopment Agency – Job Seeker Community Event, Job Fair and Resource Event

Hosted 3 Disability Employment Initiative Employer Workshops including the 2014 Connections Event

Mount Olive Baptist Church – Veterans Community Expo

Coast to Coast Expo Fair

Job News Job Fair

Minority Business Expo

Broward College – Career Fair for Engineering Technology

Broward College – Graduating Students Job Fair

Broward County School Board Job Fair

Outreach Events


2014 Disability Expo

SFHHA Annual Healthcare Summit

Bridges of America Community Resource and Job Fair

South Florida and Business Leadership Conference

Housing Authority Education and Career Fair

Resume Roses Career Fair

American Academy of Professional Coders Lauderdale Lakes Chapter

Sun Sentinel Career Fair

SFMA 54th Annual Meeting

City College Career Fair

Florida International Boat Show Career Fair

Outreach Events


Assisted Community Based Organizations with letters of support

Mount Olive Development Corporation – Homeless Veterans’ Stand Down Event

Broward County Public Schools – Youth Career Connect Grant, STEM-CP: MSP grant application to the National Science Foundation, Florida Department of education and the Adult Education and Family Literacy and English Literacy/Civics Education

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8195 – Homes for America Heroes Program

United Way of Broward County – Support Services for Veteran Families Grant

Supporting our Partners


Whiddon Rogers Education Center – Second Chance Act Technology Grant for Incarcerated Adults and Juveniles

Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) of South Florida, Inc. – Face Forward 2 Grant

Urban League of Broward County – H1-B Ready to Work Partnership to prepare the long-term unemployed for jobs in the Information Technology sector

Statewide – An Economy in Motion Application for the Intermodal Logistics Training to the USDOL for the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career training grant to create new strategies for training/support TAA eligible workers

HOPE South Florida’s -HUD “HOPE4Families Rapid Rehousing Project to assist with employment services (e.g., assessment, case management, job training, placement and follow-up)

Supporting Our Partners


Implemented video conferencing allowing staff to join meetings virtually thereby decreasing their time out of the office and mileage costs.

Over 17,688 people viewed online orientations last program year.

Implemented a system to allow SYEP staff to digitally capture supportive documents resulting in a more efficient orientation process and the flexibility to serve youth at any location.

Implemented new servers at each center for faster file access time.

Rebranded our public facing website to reflect the unified brand set forth by the State.

Technology Improvements


State fiscal monitoring resulted in zero findingsAnnual third party audit resulted in zero

findingsState program monitoring .1% error rateTHLW program error rate decreased from .6%

in PY 12-13 to .4% in PY 13-14State WIA Data Validation error rate

decreased from .79% in PY 12-13 to .58% in PY 13-14

Monitoring

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Encourage Employers and Job Seekers to

Choose the One-Stop for

Services

GOAL


State’s PY 13-14 year-end-reportCSBD exceeded performance

• 99.6% WIA Entered Employment Rate for Adults and Dislocated Workers

• 54.5% WTP All Family Participation Rate

(State Goal = 50%)

• Youth Program met all the Common Core Measures

• Provided 10,419 employers with All Levels of Service

• Provided 3,981 employers with a Level 1 Service

Program Highlights PY 13-14


CSBD Quality Assurance Surveys99% customer satisfaction with customers who

participated in our workshops

99% satisfaction rate for employers who participated in the Employer Forums and Disability Employment Initiative Workshops

87% of Employers were satisfied CSBDs job posting service

86% of employers heard of WF1

77% of employers heard of CSBD

59% of employers knew that WF1 is now CSBD



Employer Services

Ticket to Work

Veterans

SNAP

WP

WTP

#1 in the State providing employer services (served over 10,000 employers, providing a total of 83,923 services)

#1 out of 138 workforce Employment Networks in the nation

#1 in the “Big 7” for Entered Employment Rate ahead of 2 regions with military bases

#1 in the State for Entered Employment Rate

#2 in the “Big 7 for Entered Employment Rate

#2 in the “Big 7” for All-Family Participation Rate #3 in the “Big 7” for Two-Parent Participation Rate



2014 GFL Alliance Economic Development Partner of the Year 2013 South Florida Innovations Award Honoree by the Greater

Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce State’s Workforce Summit Speakers (x2) DEO Large Region Veterans Incentive Award National Disability Institute Asset Development Conference Call

Speaker Latema King, SYEP Program Manager received the 2013

Barbara K. Griffin Workforce Excellence Award by the Florida Workforce Development Association

Melanie Magill, Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst received the 2014 Barbara K. Griffin Workforce Excellence Award by the Florida Workforce Development Association

2013-2014 Awards/Achievements


State Rebranding effort Speak Up Broward on the BECON TV network

regarding transportation issues in Broward County Interviewed on “Focus on South Florida” Created an infomercial for the Youth Scholarship

Program CSBD was mentioned in over 40 print and online

articles Presented to the Broward League of Cities, Cities of

Sunrise, Pembroke Pines and Wilton Manors about the Summer Youth Employment Program

Marketing Initiatives

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Maximizing Employment and Training

Opportunities for Targeted Population

GOAL


106,042 distinct job seekers served (7.6% decrease from last year)240,945 job seeker visits (14.7% decrease from last

year) Provided 1,415,573 services to job seekers

(12.5% increase from last year) Provided OJTs to 33 employers and 37 job

seekers Provided Work Experience opportunities to 348

WIA Adult/DW/Youth job seekers Served 570 Ticket to Work participants year-to-

date (26% increase over last year)

Services Provided PY 13-14


28,180 participants attended our workshops (34% increase over last year)

Provided Rapid Response services to 29 employers and 2,371 individuals

Conducted mass recruitments for 35 employers (e.g., Allied Barton, AutoNation, Broward Healthy Start Coalition, City Furniture, EmpHire, Pitney Bowes, and Southern Waste Systems)

1,300 WTP customers had positive exits due to earned income



Implemented Startup Quest Program Continue to be the largest and most successful program to-

date of the 8 RWBs participating in the USDOL grant

990 customers attended all the Informational Sessions

334 customers were enrolled in the program as part of the ‘treatment group’

113 customers were enrolled in the program as part of the ‘control group’

214 customers completed the program (Program 3 is still underway with 103 customers participating)

154 customers have become employed

44 customers have become self-employed



Implemented Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP)695 youth were placed at 323 worksites

Used 7 different funding streams while providing a seamless delivery of services to youth

95% of participants completed the program

96% of employer satisfaction rate with SYEP

95% of youth satisfaction rate with SYEP


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Preserve Local Control, While Continuing to

Serve the Broward

Community

GOAL


Board advocacy of legislation positively effecting workforce development such as WIOA, which was passed on July 22, 2014

CSBD State Legislative Agenda and CSBD Infograph provided to the BWDB, used by Dr. Ben Chen when speaking with legislators in Tallahassee and distributed to the Broward County Delegation by Sandra Harris

Mason and Dr. Ben Chen attended the Broward League of Cities Powering Event

Pam Sands, Frank Horkey, Dr. Ben Chen, Gary Arenson, Mason and Rochelle attended the 2014 NAWB Conference

Ron Book and Abby Ross, Congressional Aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz attend the September 18, 2014 BWDB Meeting

Legislative Activities

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Redesign and Implement a

More Effective Out-of-School Youth Program

GOAL


New out-of-school youth program implemented

Center staff are focusing on youth that are:Motivated and ready to receive our assistance

Have obtained their HS Diploma, GED or equivalent

Interested in attending post-secondary1481 youth currently receiving services

Youth Activities

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