Workforce Connections (WC), Southern Nevada’s Local Workforce Development Board (LWDB), announced how its allocation of federal funding will be awarded for the 2023 program year. Awarded contracts will fund staffing at American Job Centers and provide WIOA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth services that help connect employers to a ready workforce.
The WIOA Title I awards were approved by the WC Local Elected Official (LEO) Consortium during the April 11, 2023, public meeting. On March 21, 2023, the WC Board, consisting of local business, economic development, education, labor and other community members, voted to bring the funding recommendations to the LEO Consortium for final approval.
For more information on the awards, click here. Pending negotiations, the contracts with service providers will start on July 1, 2023. The contracts are for an initial one-year term with up to three extensions of one year each.
The awarded contracts will fund staffing and provide employment and training services in a network of American Job Centers located across Southern Nevada. In November 2022, the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR) unified all of Nevada’s American Job Centers under the EmployNV brand: EmployNV Business Hubs to serve employers, EmployNV Career Hubs to serve job seekers, and EmployNV Youth Hubs to serve young adults age 16 to 24.
Six strategic objectives were addressed in the RFP process:
- Co-location of WIOA partners
- Leverage resources across partners
- Focus on alternative labor pools
- Flexible scopes
- High return on investment (ROI)
- Data-driven performance
RFPs for seven service clusters serving Clark, Nye, Lincoln, and Esmeralda counties were released in October 2022.
WC received 21 total proposals which were evaluated and scored by an independent third-party contractor. Proposals that met the minimum score were ranked by an Ad-Hoc Selection Panel comprised of WC Board members. Proposals with the highest rankings were recommended for funding approval, first to the WC Programs Committee, then the full WC Board, and finally to the LEO Consortium.
WIOA Title I is one of seventeen federal funding streams identified in WIOA, that bring over $100 million of employment and training funds to the One-Stop Delivery System in Southern Nevada. WIOA Title I represents approximately 20% of the total funds.
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