This Issuance provides updated funding information to Local Workforce Development Boards (WDBs) for completion of Planning Budget Summaries (PBS) for PY 2023 and FY 2024 funding under WIOA. 

The purpose of this policy is to transmit the Office of Workforce Development's (OWD) guidance to Local Workforce Development Boards (LWDB) regarding WIOA Youth Program expenditures. 

WIOA requires each Local Workforce Development Board (LWDB) to develop a MOU for the delivery of programs and services, and sharing of costs, in the One-Stop Delivery System for its Local Workforce Development Area (LWDA). The Local WDB guides the development of the content of this MOU alongside all the required One-Stop Partners. An integral component within the MOU is a negotiated Infrastructure Funding Agreement (IFA), or infrastructure cost-sharing agreement for the operation of the One-Stop Centers in the LWDA.

This Issuance communicates the Office of Workforce Development's (OWD) updated Confidentiality and Information Security Plan for the Statewide Electronic Case Management System, including protocols for breaches of data, to all appropriate data users and their supervisors. The attached Plan includes a required user attestation form that all staff must sign prior to becoming  statewide electronic case management system authorized users. 

This issuance identifies the criteria established under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) sec. 134 (c)(3)(A) used to determine eligibility for WIOA Adults and Dislocated Workers to receive training services. Training services may be made available to employed and unemployed adults and dislocated workers. 

This Issuance transmits the Technical Assistance eligibility and documentation requirements of the Office of Workforce Development (OWD) for the WIOA Adult and Dislocated Worker programs. It includes source documentation requirements  and minor language changes.

This Issuance is written to communicate the Missouri Office of Workforce Development's (OWD) standards for corrective and remedial actions to be applied when violations of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) nondiscrimination and equal opportunity provisions, Section 188 of WIOA or 29 CFR Part 38, and the Missouri Nondiscrimination Plan are found. These standards apply to any entity to which financial assistance under WIOA Title I is extended, either directly through the OWD or through another WIOA recipient.

This Issuance provides guidance on certification documentation for incumbent Local WDB members and future appointees to such Local WDBs. It includes the State's statutory required criteria for Chief Elected Officials (CEO) to use when appointing members to the Local WDB. It incorporates the federal regulations regarding Local WDB composition under WIOA. It restates the statutory two-year deadline for Local WDBs to obtain recertification that they are properly constituted as required by WIOA.

The purpose of this policy is to establish and clarify the Office of Workforce Development (OWD) guidance on the Missouri Heroes Connect program.

This Issuance is to impart to the Missouri Workforce Development System the Final Rule for implementing Section 188 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).1 This Rule is codified as Part 38 of Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations and enforced by the Civil Rights Center (CRC) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). A copy of the rule, as published in the Federal Register on December 2, 2016, is included as Attachment 1 to this Issuance.