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quality, helping businesses understand how workforce investments can improve their <br />competitive advantage. <br /> <br />Through sector work, the RPU will work with the businesses and regional partners to identify <br />entry-level positions and develop career pathways with multiple entry and exit points, ensuring <br />individuals understand their path to self-sufficiency. The RPU will review high-road employment <br />practices and strategies, such as the National Fund’s Design Framework, to design better jobs. <br />Their approach meets employers where they are and supports them along a continuum of <br />improvement. Lastly, the RPU will target limited dollars for on-the-job training and incumbent <br />worker training towards quality jobs that provide upward mobility. <br /> <br />2Cii. Describe how the RPU and regional partners will work together to identify <br />shared target populations and develop targeted service strategies <br />The one-stop delivery system provides the local boards and partners the framework to continue <br />and advance discussions of how workforce programs can be more effective, efficient, and <br />aligned. The regional partners recognize that the answers will only come when we step out of <br />our respective silos. The RPU and partner organizations have identified and are currently <br />addressing the needs of shared target populations that include English language learners, justice- <br />involved individuals, individuals with disabilities, Veterans, and disconnected and foster youth. <br />A recurring theme in our planning meetings was that organizations seeking to serve these <br />populations feel they would benefit from better linkages with other organizations doing the same <br />work or complementary work. <br /> <br />The RPU has regularly scheduled meetings to address service delivery and performance for all <br />but one of these targeted groups, English language learners. During the regional planning <br />meetings, the local boards and partners shared promising practices to address English language <br />learners’ specific challenges. The group discussed two distinct subcategories, those with low <br />skills and education and those with higher skills and educational degrees from other countries. <br />The RPU and partners made commitments to reconvene to discuss how we can collectively <br />improve service delivery to English language learners and determine if other populations warrant <br />different workforce development strategies to serve them more effectively. <br /> <br />2 Ciii . Describe how the RPU and regional partners will work with employers and <br />training providers to ensure that historically unserved and underserved <br />communities have equal access to the regional sector pathways, earn and learn <br />opportunities, supportive services, and other approaches identified by the RPU. This <br />should include whether the RPU has, or plans to develop, a formal policy related to <br />equity. <br />The RPU and regional partners will ensure historically unserved and underserved populations <br />have equal access to regional sector career pathways and other services and support through <br />sector partnerships. Through sector partnership work, the RPU and partners will have the <br />opportunity to work with employers to create career pathways that help mitigate the many <br />challenges unserved and underserved populations face in completing educational goals and <br />EXHIBIT 1