Partnerships Abound:Collaboration in a

Creative Spirit

Partnerships Abound:Collaboration in a

Creative Spirit

Session #205

Goals:

Describe and explore a regional model of integrated partnerships, lead by a business services team, driven by labor market information, and addressing the education and employment needs of the growing Long Island economy.

Explore possible next steps for other regions seeking to expand their network

partnerships.

Workforce New YorkLong Island Business Services Team

Progress ReportSeptember, 2006

Workforce New YorkLong Island Business Services Team

Progress ReportSeptember, 2006

IntroductionIntroduction

The Workforce New York Long Island Business Services Team is guided by a Steering Committee, comprised of the three Long Island local workforce investment boards (LWIBs), the New York State Department of Labor Division of Employment Services (NYSDOL/DoES), the NYSDOL Division of Research and Statistics (R&S) and the Long Island Regional Adult Education Network (LI-RAEN). On behalf of the Team, the Steering Committee conducts coordinated strategic planning designed to conceive, develop and implement business services and workforce/economic development initiatives for the benefit of the Long Island Region.

Member Organizations Member Organizations Abilities, Inc. Alliance for Defense Diversification in Peacetime Transition, Inc. City of Long Beach Office of Youth and Family Services Economic Opportunity Commission of Nassau County, Inc. Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey Hauppauge Industrial Association HempsteadWorks i-Park Bio-tech and Life Sciences Center Long Island Association Long Island Forum for Technology Long Island Life Sciences Initiatives Long Island – Regional Adult Education Network Long Island Works Coalition, Inc. Nassau Community College National Council On The Aging, Inc. New York State Department of Labor New York State Education Department of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with

Disabilities New York State Empire State Development Corporation Stony Brook Research Foundation Suffolk County Community College Suffolk County Department of Labor Town of Hempstead Department of Occupational Resources Town of Oyster Bay Department of Intergovernmental Affairs Division of Employment and Training The Workforce Partnership

VisionVision

Our strategic, public-private partnership will continually improve the

quality of the Long Island workforce, business climate and economy.

Through regional coordination, we will:  Create an enhanced business perception of the publicly

funded workforce investment system  Provide multiple access points where businesses can obtain

coordinated assistance in recruiting, training and developing workers

  Maintain a customer-friendly process for leveraging

available resources from a variety of funding streams in response to business, employment, community and economic development needs

MissionMission Develop a strategic, on-going approach to the delivery of business

services that combines resources, is non-duplicative and remains flexible in its ability to respond to the needs of the business customer

Plan, create and implement business services initiatives that help businesses to hire, train, educate, upgrade and retain skilled workers

  Collaborate to identify and access sources of grant funds that will

assist businesses to develop our local workforce and strengthen our economy

  Project, assess, analyze, and rapidly respond to changing needs of

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

  Measure, evaluate and continually improve our services and products

for businesses, using customer feedback and other standardized performance data

Description:The expanding scope and critical need for workforce information and economic analysis is key to developing and maintaining a competitive workforce. States and regional economic areas are working to leverage assets, address challenges, and create talent development strategies. Effectively developing, accessing, and analyzing the wide array of data necessary to accomplish this in a globally competitive environment………requires new strategies and methodologies

and a transformation within the workforce investment system about how we see our role in collaboration with other strategic partners.

Major private sector job groups on Long Island. Natural resources, mining and construction 61,600 Manufacturing 86,500Wholesale trade 70,500Retail trade 162,300Transportation, warehousing, utilities 37,200Information 29,300Financial activities 80,900Professional and business services 153,100Health care and social assistance 166,300Educational services 29,900Leisure and hospitality 86,900Other services 51,700Government 198,200The December unemployment rate declined to 4.0 percent, down from 4.2 percent a year ago and the lowest rate for December since 2001

Long Island’s Key Growth IndustriesLong Island’s Key Growth Industries

DefenseHomeland SecurityBiosciencesInformation TechnologyHealth CareRetailTravel and Tourism

LIFTLong Island Forum for Technology

NYSTAR

Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)

NYSTAR®'s designated Regional Technology

Development Center for Long Island

LIFT Estimates $4-6 Billion in contract work over 5 years starting in 2004

LIFT Forecasts a Backlog of $9.4 Billion from Defense Firms on Long Island

Forecast that LI Defense Firms will spend $3 Billion on Long Island

There is a broadly held, erroneous perception that Jobs in manufacturing are a dead end, not very interesting career.

Career Mapping in Aerospace and advanced Manufacturing seeks to identify and publicize good jobs and ladders to further success. Also to help companies better understand and identify the skill and organization structure required by a competitive manufacturing company. There is a vision that transparency in human capital markets will help employees and businesses maximize their value.

There is a broadly held, erroneous perception that Jobs in manufacturing are a dead end, not very interesting career.

Career Mapping in Aerospace and advanced Manufacturing seeks to identify and publicize good jobs and ladders to further success. Also to help companies better understand and identify the skill and organization structure required by a competitive manufacturing company. There is a vision that transparency in human capital markets will help employees and businesses maximize their value.

What are the jobs?

What are the industry changes?

“… growth of output per worker that offers the greatest potential….to..enable future retirees to maintain their expected standard of living ……. for a country already on the cutting edge of technology to maintain this pace for a protracted period into the future would be without modern precedent. One policy…to maintain high levels of productivity growth is …. upgrading of primary and secondary school education in the United States.”

Alan Greenspan

A Knowledge Based Economy

One source of competitive advantage is to diffuse throughout a company.. the unique, proprietary knowledge.. about customers, competitors, products, and techniques… that resides in the minds of its employees.

Creating Transparency in our Labor/Human

Capital Markets –

Empowering Mobility

Raising Expectations

Urgent Need to Create Mobility in

our Workforce

Especially for the Second and Third

Tier Student

Erasing the White and Blue Collar Divide

Life-Long Learning Casts College Bound into a Whole New Paradigm

Median age in Nassau County is 38.5

Median age in all of United States is 35.3

The population 65+

Nassau County – 15%

United States - 12.4%

Nassau residents over five who speak a language other than English at home – 23.2%

For United States as a whole

- 17.9%

Speak English less than well in Nassau - 9.0%

Teenagers Face Busy Customer Service Environment

What Will Long Island’s Future Look Like?

Targeted Aerospace Industry ClustersTargeted Aerospace Industry Clusters

Engineering Design Engineering Services Manufacturing (Mechatronics) Commodities/Special Processes Information Technology

The partnerships and work in career mapping also helped leverage a recent grant for the region in advanced manufacturing.

The regional business services team has also implemented a grant for career mapping in biotechnology

And is supporting an initiative for a skills center in retail trade

The partnerships and work in career mapping also helped leverage a recent grant for the region in advanced manufacturing.

Progress (continued)Progress (continued)

The Team has developed or supported applications for funding from the following sources: United States Department of Commerce Technology Opportunities Program (TOPS) Grant; United States Department of Labor (USDOL) High Growth Job Training Grants, Community-Based Job Training Grants; Limited English and Hispanic Worker Initiative Grants; Building Skills in New York State (BUSINYS) Grants; WIA Statewide Skilled Manufacturing Resource Training (SMART) Grants; Empire Zones; Perkins III Grants, the Nassau County Tech Prep Consortium Grant; the BioPartners Emergent Worker Training Program Federal Earmark, etc.

Long Island Regional Workforce Analysis Long Island Regional Workforce Analysis

“A number of industries have received priority from the local workforce system. Some of these industries are outlined below.

While the shortage of nurses is well known, the health care field also faces many other shortages. It will see additional challenges as the industry incorporates new bioscience technologies, information technologies, and the integration of information records, while also working to contain costs.

The related biosciences sector includes a diverse array of companies, products and services. Long Island has one of the largest biotech industry clusters in New York State and one of the largest consumer health care markets in the country.

Long Island Regional Workforce Analysis (continued)Long Island Regional Workforce Analysis (continued)

Defense-related and other advanced manufacturing companies face worker shortages in a number of occupations. These include engineers, computer software specialists, machinists, sheet metal workers and others.

Information technology (IT) has gone through a boom and bust cycle for both companies and individuals. Not only have market conditions improved, but IT is now key to the competitiveness and quality of service for nearly all businesses today.

Homeland security concerns are creating increased demand for products, services and people. While its local employment impact has been smaller than originally expected, it remains a strategically important sector for the region.

Long Island Regional Workforce Analysis (continued)Long Island Regional Workforce Analysis (continued)

Reversing earlier trends, employment and pay levels in manufacturing have recently begun to increase. Much of the increase in wages is due to a shift in industry employment toward higher-skill, knowledge-based positions that incorporate intense use of computers. Providing the increasingly high-skilled workforce needed for these new jobs is the next challenge for the local economy and its workforce system partners.”

Gary Huth, Labor Market Analyst, New York State Department of Labor, Long Island Region

Mapping Career Ladders in Aerospace Project FindingsMapping Career Ladders in Aerospace Project Findings

Under a Workforce New York Grant, local consultants have

conducted a Mapping Career Ladders in Aerospace Project on

behalf of the Workforce New York Long Island Business

Services Team (described below). Based upon their research,

The Alliance for Defense Diversification in PeacetimeTransition, Inc. (ADDAPT) and Stony Brook Research

Foundation have submitted the findings listed below:

“There is an immediate need to inform educators of the state-of-the-art workforce demands of employers in the aerospace industry

 

Mapping Career Ladders in Aerospace Project Findings (continued)Mapping Career Ladders in Aerospace Project Findings (continued)

Employers in this industry have consistently found that the vast majority of new employees and incumbent workers lack the mathematics and science foundation to enter and advance along career ladders in this field

Major manufacturers are no longer buying just component parts or just machined components, they are buying major subassemblies

Small manufacturers must grow to be “mini” prime contractors or be acquired by larger companies

The Workforce New York Long Island Business Services Team Offers

The Workforce New York Long Island Business Services Team Offers

Assessment of the needs of business and marshalling of resources in response to those needs

Recruitment of new workers, including free space for on-site interviewing at our Career Centers 

Assistance in accessing grant funds to train new and current employees  

Development of On-The-Job Training and Customized Training programs  

Information regarding tax credits and financial incentives 

Rapid response aversion 

New York State Department of Labor Request For Applications (RFA) Number

37-L Building Skills in New York State

(BUSINYS)

New York State Department of Labor Request For Applications (RFA) Number

37-L Building Skills in New York State

(BUSINYS) The New York State Department of Labor

has issued Request For Applications (RFA) Number 37-L, entitled “Building Skills in New York State (BUSINYS).” The purpose of this Request for Applications (RFA) 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 skills of those workers.

New York State Department of Labor Request For Applications (RFA) Number 37-L

Building Skills in New York State (BUSINYS) (continued)

New York State Department of Labor Request For Applications (RFA) Number 37-L

Building Skills in New York State (BUSINYS) (continued)

Businesses throughout New York State need to ensure that the skills of their workers do not deteriorate or become “stale” in an ever more competitive and technologically complex global economy. Workforce development has become a critical component of every business plan.

BUSINYS 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, and promoting skills upgrading for incumbent workers.

Workforce New York Long Island Business Services

Team

Workforce New York Long Island Business Services

Team

To learn more, please call (516) 934-8558, or e-mail us atLI.Business.Services@labor.state.ny.us.

The leader in Human Capital Development for a Stronger

Long Island Economy