ABOUT GLOW WDB

What We Are: The GLOW WDB is a Board that addresses Workforce Issues. It operates under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), which was effective 7/1/15.

What We Do: The GLOW WDB oversees Federal funds which serve Adults, Dislocated Workers, and Youth. There are One Stop Career Centers in each of the GLOW counties that assist customers to prepare for employment, workforce training, and skill needs as well as assisting businesses in the region with critical training and skill needs.

Our Mission: An effective, integrated system that understands and responds to the dynamic needs of business, and maximizes the potential of job seekers. A skilled high quality workforce is critical to all of us. The GLOW WDB focuses on the local and regional economy to ensure workers are trained in skills that local business needs. We utilize feedback from our Board Members as we know that private sector members know the labor issues of the area including their company’s needs for hiring, training, and retraining.

The Local Board represents a wide variety of individuals, businesses, and organizations throughout the local area. The Local Board serves as a strategic convener to promote and broker effective relationships between the Chief Elected Official (CEOs) and Economic, Education, and Workforce Partners.

The Local Board must develop a strategy to continuously improve and strengthen the workforce development system through innovation in, and alignment and improvement of, employment, training, and education programs to promote economic growth. Local Board members must establish a platform in which all members actively participate and collaborate closely with the required and other partners of the workforce development system, including public and private organizations. This is crucial to the Local Board's role to integrate and align a more effective, job-driven workforce investment system.

Functions of the Local Board shall include:
· Development and approval of a local plan consistent with WIOA Sec. 108;
· Workforce research and regional labor market analysis;
· Development of a budget for the activities of the Local Board, consistent with the GLOW WDA Plan and duties of the GLOW WDB, subject to approval of the CEOs;
· Convening, brokering and leveraging local workforce development stakeholders;
· Leading efforts to engage with a diverse range of employers and entities in the region;
· Negotiation of local performance measures;
· Leading efforts in the local area to develop and implement career pathways within the local area by aligning the employment, training, education and supportive services that are needed by adults and youth, particularly individuals with barriers to employment;
· Identifying and promoting proven and promising practices;
· Developing strategies for using technology to maximize the accessibility and effectiveness of the local workforce development system for employers, workers and jobseekers;
· Designating, with agreement of the CEOs, of the Career Center operators, youth providers and identification of eligible training providers;
· Provision of program oversight and consumer choice requirements, in partnership with the Chief Elected Officials;
· Coordination with education providers;
· Development of a budget for activities of the Local Board;
· An annual assessment of the physical and programmatic accessibility in accordance with WIOA Sec. 188 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 of all one-stop centers in the local area; and

· Certification of one-stop centers.
· Determination and approval of policies and procedures;
· Establishment of clear roles, responsibilities, procedures and expectations to increase board participation and improve board functionality;
· Collaboration as needed on regional, local and state initiatives; and
· Approval of plans for the implementation of goals and objectives for the GLOW WDB, including realization of efficiencies, cost savings, synergies, best practices, conservation of resources and pooling of complementary resources.

The Members: Private sector business and public sector members from Organized Labor, Community Based Organizations, Adult Education, Literacy, Higher Ed, Economic Development, Vocational Education, and Labor. A majority of the members must be business representatives and reside or have their principle place of business in the Genesee, Livingston, Orleans, or Wyoming Counties

When We Meet: Meetings are normally the third Tuesday on the months of January, March, May, June, September, November from 4:30 – 6 p.m. and the 2nd Friday in December for the Annual Breakfast Meeting at 7:30 a.m. All Workforce Development Board members should attend.

Where We Meet: We normally meet at Genesee Community College, One College Road – Technology Center, Batavia (rooms may vary) for regular meetings. The annual Dinner Meeting is held in June and the Annual Breakfast meeting is held in December and held at a local restaurant in Batavia.

Committees: We would like WDB members to join a committee. Currently there is a Finance and Emerging Worker Committee.

GLOW WDB is a community-wide collaborative partnership for development of jobs and qualified employees to fill those positions in our region.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Program

Auxiliary Aids and Services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities