ION - Innovation and Opportunity Network
Supporting WIOA implementation and workforce system innovation through training and collaboration.
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ION - Innovation and Opportunity Network
Got WIOA? ION does.
The vision of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) is to increase access and opportunities to employment, education, training, support services to employment. The Innovation and Opportunity Network (ION) supports state and local workforce development boards, system professionals, and employers, by helping you find the resources you need to successfully implement that vision. ION is your starting point to stay informed on the latest technical assistance tools and resources for WIOA implementation - here you will find links to guidance documents, promising practices, training tools, and other technical assistance resources developed by the U.S. Department of Labor, as well as other Federal agency partners.
ION also includes 11 featured Focus Areas that contain key resources and critical information and also offers a broad look at how WIOA is transforming the public workforce system:
- All About WIOA
- Financial Grants Management
- One-Stops and American Job Centers
- Performance Accountability
- Services to Adult Job Seekers and Workers
- Services to Businesses and Employers
- Services to Youth
- State and Local Governance
- System Alignment
- Target Populations and National Programs
- Wagner-Peyser Employment Services and Unemployment Insurance
ION provides numerous ways to connect to and engage with your peers across the country, as well as a tool to help you assess your progress on implementation.
Focus Areas
The latest Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA) Implementation Training Resources.
Quickly find all of the latest WIOA Implementation Training Resources in 11 focus areas, as identified by ETA.
These resources are primarily developed for national, state, and local workforce system professionals.
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An overview of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and key regulations and sub-regulatory guidance
An overview of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and key regulations and sub-regulatory guidance
Operational and program resources that support the implementation of the one-stop delivery system, branded as American Job Centers
Resources highlighting WIOA impacts on performance indicators for core programs. Includes new measures related to services to employers and postsecondary credential attainment
- Performance Reporting Community Homepage
- Performance Accountability – Webinars and Webcasts
- Performance Accountability – Tools, Resources, and the Workforce Integrated Performance System WIPS
- Performance Accountability – Guidance
- Performance Accountability – Primary Indicators of Performance
- Performance Accountability – Individual Programmatic Resources
Information and training to support the implementation of key WIOA provisions related to services for job seekers and workers under Title I (the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs)
- Training and Employment Notice (TEN) NO. 12-21: Practitioners Guide to Supportive Services
- Adult and Dislocated Worker Key Resources - Service Delivery
- Adult and Dislocated Worker Key Resources - Special Populations
- Adult and Dislocated Worker Key Resources - Work-Based Learning
- Adult and Dislocated Worker - Webinars and Webcasts
Information and training to support the implementation of key WIOA provisions related to employers and businesses
- Business Engagement Collaborative Community Homepage
- Quality Business Services with Employer Engagement and Customized Solutions
- Registered Apprenticeship
- Small Business Partnership Toolkit
- The New Customer-Centered Design Approach to Service Delivery
- Using Sector Strategies and Industry Focus Groups to Support Local Businesses
Information on an integrated service delivery system through which states and local areas can leverage other Federal, state, local, and philanthropic resources to support in-school youth and out-of-school youth.
Governance of the public workforce system at the state and local level. This includes the membership and functions of state and local workforce development boards
Key foundational strategies (including career pathways, sector strategies, and regionalism) that drive alignment of the workforce system and how it delivers services
Information and training to support the implementation of key WIOA provisions related to target populations including those serves by ETA National Programs (e.g. Indian and Native American Programs, National Farmworker Jobs Program)
Information and training to support the implementation of key WIOA provisions related to Wagner-Peyser Employment Services and Unemployment Insurance