OWD Issuances

This Issuance transmits the guidelines for Local Workforce Development Boards (WDBs) and their partners, as required by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) to produce a comprehensive four-year plan to develop, align, and integrate service-delivery strategies and to support the State's vision and goals. This issuance communicates WIOA statutory requirements and U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) regulations for Regional and Local Planning activities, as well as the State's interpretations of additional requirements.

This Issuance provides Office of Workforce Development (OWD) guidance to Local Workforce Development Boards (LWDBs) and Workforce Staff to ensure the recipient complies with the nondiscrimination and equal opportunity provisions of WIOA by collecting and maintaining the required data and records to conduct a statistical or other quantifiable data analyses used to verify the recipient's compliance with section 188 of WIOA, 29 CFR 38, and the Missouri Nondiscrimination Plan. 

This Issuance provides Office of Workforce Development (OWD) guidance to Local Workforce Development Boards (Local WDBs) and Workforce Staff regarding service category distinctions, co-enrollment, priority of service, common exit procedures, and quarterly follow-up requirements. The WIOA program enrollments require numerous data elements.

The purpose of this policy is to set forth the WIOA's vision of the local Workforce Development Board's (LWDB) involvement in the Youth Program design and implementation. 

The purpose of this policy is to establish complaints and reporting procedures regarding criminal fraud, waste, abuse, or other criminal activities related to federal awards for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult, Dislocated Worker, Youth, Wagner-Peyser (WP), and any other federally funded programs operated by the Office of Workforce Development (OWD). 

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 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 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.