Required Statewide workforce investment activities are:
(a) Required rapid response activities, as described in
Sec. 665.310 of this part;
(b) Disseminating:
(1) The State list of eligible providers of training services
(including those providing non-traditional training services), for
adults and dislocated workers;
(2) Information identifying eligible providers of on-the-job
training and customized training;
(3) Performance and program cost information about these providers,
as described in 20 CFR 663.540; and
(4) A list of eligible providers of youth activities as described
in WIA section 123;
(c) Conducting evaluations, under WIA section 136(e), of workforce
investment activities for adults, dislocated workers and youth, in
order to establish and promote methods for continuously improving such
activities to achieve high-level performance within, and high-level
outcomes from, the Statewide workforce investment system. Such
evaluations must be conducted in coordination with local boards in the
State and, to the maximum extent practicable, in coordination with
Federal evaluations carried out under WIA section 172.
(d) Providing incentive grants:
(1) To local areas for regional cooperation among local boards
(including local boards for a designated region, as described in 20 CFR
661.290);
(2) For local coordination of activities carried out under WIA; and
(3) For exemplary performance by local areas on the performance
measures.
(e) Providing technical assistance to local areas that fail to meet
local performance measures.
(f) Assisting in the establishment and operation of One-Stop
delivery systems, in accordance with the strategy described in the
State workforce investment plan. [WIA sec. 112(b)(14).]
(g) Providing additional assistance to local areas that have high
concentrations of eligible youth.
(h) Operating a fiscal and management accountability information
system, based on guidelines established by the Secretary after
consultation with the Governors, chief elected officials, and One-Stop
partners, as required by WIA section 136(f). (WIA secs. 129(b)(2) and
134(a)(2).)
