2024–28 WIOA Combined State Plan Draft Now Available
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) requires the governor of each state to submit a four-year unified or combined state plan outlining the state’s workforce development strategy. The plan can be viewed on the Department of Labor and Industry’s website, and the draft for the 2024–2028 plan is available here.
Pennsylvania’s Combined State Plan includes the six WIOA Core programs: Adult, Dislocated Worker, Youth, Wagner-Peyser, Adult Basic Education, and Vocational Rehabilitation. It also includes the following optional programs:
- Career and Technical Education Programs-Perkins Act
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program
- Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers Programs
- Jobs for Veterans State Grants Program
- Senior Community Service Employment Program
- Reintegration of Ex-Offenders Program
- Community Services Block Grant
- Unemployment Insurance
Some specific areas of interest to our members include the following goals:
- Empowering individuals paid subminimum wages through 14(c) waivers to obtain CIE;
- Expediting the Integrated Vocational Engagement & Support Team (InVEST) Project to assist individuals with disabilities, families, and community businesses with CIE engagement, supports, and services/resource coordination;
- Increasing competitive integrated employment (CIE) opportunities for individuals with disabilities;
- Increasing transition services for students with disabilities; and
- Increasing statewide collaboration with the Bureau of Special Education (BSE) and the Office of Developmental Programs (ODP) to expand Pre-ETS across Departments.
Public comments will be accepted on Pennsylvania’s WIOA Combined State Plan until 5:00 pm on Tuesday, January 16, 2024. Please submit your comments electronically. Written comments may also be submitted by mail to:
PA Workforce Development Board
651 Boas Street | Room 514
Harrisburg, PA 17121
