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Regional Plan W rra y: Maintaining consistent and valued relationships with key businesses provides greater visibility into their resource needs, resulting in better identification of short-term and long -term employment plans. Local boards will utilize feedback to create strategies with partners and other stakeholders that address these needs. In addition, areas of Orange County that exhibit high concentrations of unemployment and low income, known as "Red Zones,' are targeted for workforce development programs because of the prevalence of historically disadvantaged individuals with barriers to employment. Businesses in key industry sectors that are located within Red Zones are given the highest priority because they help address multiple objectives in this Regional Plan. Stete P;an A I n rr:eni: Foster demand- driven skills attainment in high- value, high - growth sectors with prioritization given to industries and employers who offer good jobs with good wages and benefits. The local areas will work to build a comprehensive system that responds to the needs of the businesses in the region to ensure opportunities for progression along career pathways. Companies within sectors will be targeted, assessed and provided skills upgrade training to enhance the capabilities of the workers to enable companies to remain and/or become competitive. Layoff aversion projects will be emphasized and we will work as a system to become more robust in being proactive rather than reactive. Tools and metrics will be developed to ensure Flexibility, easier access and true business responsiveness, this is not a one size fits all menu of services. The local boards will identify the need to reserve up to 20% of Adult and Dislocated Worker funding to meet the business need and will work with the employers to back fill any positions that are created when the skill upgrade training is completed. An avenue to be explored will be to work with the Community Colleges to leverage services and set up a system that works for all partners. Declaration: Incumbent worker training services for businesses are provided directly by the local area One -Stop and Business Services providers. Services are delivered in cooperation or partnership with other stakeholders, including community colleges and other training partners; the OCBC; the regional Small Business Administration (SBA) office; the local Small Business Development Center; and industry- specific providers. Regional Goal /Objective: Emphasis on high -value sectors and strategies through targeted and meaningful business /industry engagement. Strategy: Identify and establish high -value sector associations in the OC Region, identify and target resources to support industry identified education and training programs that will support and increase access to high -value career pathways. State Plan Alignment; Support and foster demand driven skills attainment through collaboration and active engagement of business, industry, workforce, and education /training partners. 2G. REGIONAL ASSESSMENT: The State Plan requires regional partners to determine the extent to which persons receiving training and education services aligned with regional Industry needs in each RPU are actually obtaining employment in occupations and sectors directly related to their programs of study. Developing this capacity will require creativity and the development of an operational plan for collecting relevant information. CUPRENT DATA TRACKING Currently, the local boards use CaIJOBS to pull training- relatea employment aam. lne CaIJOBS state data tracking system, however, does not allow for the manual selection of data specific to training - related employment. The system does not take into consideration several factors that are relevant to tracking training - related employment data. The local boards have created a process to ensure 0 *Net job codes are cross walked with all courses /jobs entered by the ITA Providers in the ETPL. This coding allows the data to capture some training - related activities and employment, however is dependent on manual staff diligence to add the correct codes. This process relies on training for both the ITA Providers and One Stop Center System Career Planners. The OC Region education and training providers face the Page 33 19 D-48