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These collaborative strategies for the OC Local Plan serve as an action plan to develop, align and integrate the region and local area's job - driven workforce development systems and provides the platform to achieve the local area's visions and strategic and operational goals with outcomes that will include, but not be limited to: ✓ Improve service delivery ✓ Improve training and employment outcomes • Better meet employer needs • Coordinate regional service strategies for in- demand industry sectors or occupations • Deliver customer focused services to individuals and businesses ✓ Meet and exceed local performance • Unify collection and analysis of regional labor market data • Coordinate costs and resources, such as: administrative, transportation, and support services • Align economic and workforce development activities and resources • Coordinate regional sector initiatives and develop regional sector pathways 3B. LOCAL PROGRAM ALIGNMENT TO IMPLEMENT STATE PLAN POLICY STRATEGIES The OC Regional Plan provides a description of the workforce development system for the local areas. This description includes an analysis of strengths and weaknesses of workforce development activities as well as the capacity to address the education and skill needs of the local workforce, Including Individuals with barriers to employment and the employment needs of local employers. References throughout Section 2B in the regional plan describes the workforce system, in particular please refer to section 2Aii, 2Biii, and 2Ci of the regional plan. The regional description accurately captures the complexity and comprehensive nature of the local workforce system, programs in the system, and how the system supports service alignment. One weakness not addressed in the regional plan specific to the local workforce system is the lack of delineation of local board purview and administrative and fiscal accountability in provision of services to the county residents and businesses that overlap the three local board areas. Data insufficiently captures the number of residents and businesses from other local area boards receiving services from each local area. In the interest of regional alignment of services to all within the region, the lack of service area delineation is minor; however when it comes to funding of programs and services, infrastructure, and capacity building, the coordination of local areas often falls on the larger OCDB local board. The collaboration of the three local boards to craft this one local plan proposes several steps to evaluate solutions to this systemic weakness that will promote collaboration and alignment to build sustainable local and regional system infrastructure that is in sync and committed to helping the individuals and businesses in the entire county. Suggested activities include, but are not limited to: • Evaluation of local area resources for the three local boards: including funding, staff, programs /services, infrastructure • Improved data tracking and referral process for customers based on their need and not local area service capacity • Creating cross - system data capacity: using diagnostic labor market data to assess workforce investments Use of performance data diagnostic combined with labor market data to assess the value of workforce investments • Discussion around the fiscal and service delivery benefits of consolidation of the local areas including: Pooling of funding and administrative resources; and Collaborative policy development and alignment • Integration of service delivery: braiding resources and coordinating services at the local level to meet customer needs Building upon partnerships and policies that promote system growth and change • Streamlined business engagement and business services: reduce duplicative and Incongruent processes DECLARATION: The OC Local Plan will support the seven policies identified in the State Plan and work with other workforce development programs and partners to support service alignment and leverage of resources to implement the seven policy strategies as discussed through the OC Leadership Council, referenced in the OC Regional Plan, I9 OC Loal Plan 19D -62