| Education and Labor Workforce Development | |||||
| Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act | |||||
| Actual FY 2024 | Actual FY 2025 | Revised FY 2026 | Recommended FY 2027 | Recommended FY 2028 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOURCE OF FUNDS | |||||
| Federal Fund | |||||
| Balance Forward | (3,404,440) | (702,324) | (3,990,800) | ||
| Current Receipts | 55,308,171 | 49,372,160 | 62,910,300 | 55,907,500 | 56,004,700 |
| Total Federal Fund | 51,903,731 | 48,669,836 | 58,919,500 | 55,907,500 | 56,004,700 |
| TOTAL SOURCE OF FUNDS | 51,903,731 | 48,669,836 | 58,919,500 | 55,907,500 | 56,004,700 |
| EXPENDITURES BY CLASS | |||||
| Personnel Costs | 3,492,618 | 4,177,148 | 5,779,000 | 5,678,800 | 5,773,300 |
| Operating Expenses | 1,012,791 | 1,343,620 | 1,134,100 | 1,134,100 | 1,134,100 |
| Grants Loans Benefits | 48,100,646 | 47,139,844 | 52,006,400 | 49,094,600 | 49,097,300 |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURES | 52,606,055 | 52,660,612 | 58,919,500 | 55,907,500 | 56,004,700 |
| EXPENDITURES BY FUND SOURCE | |||||
| Federal Fund | 52,606,055 | 52,660,612 | 58,919,500 | 55,907,500 | 56,004,700 |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURES | 52,606,055 | 52,660,612 | 58,919,500 | 55,907,500 | 56,004,700 |
In accordance with the provisions of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Kentucky continues to consolidate, coordinate, and improve employment, training, literacy, and vocational rehabilitation programs. WIOA reforms implemented by the Commonwealth include streamlining services through a one-stop service delivery system housed in Kentucky Career Centers located throughout the state, empowering individuals by means of information and access to training resources through individual training accounts, providing universal access to core services, increasing accountability for results, ensuring a strong role for Local Workforce Investment Boards and the private sector in the workforce investment system, facilitating state and local flexibility, and improving youth services.
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act specifies three funding streams to the states and local areas: adults, dislocated workers, and youth.
Most services for adults and dislocated workers are provided through the Kentucky Career Centers, and most customers use individual training accounts to determine which training programs and training providers best fit their needs. The Act authorizes core services available to all adults, and intensive services for unemployed individuals who are not able to find jobs through core services alone. In some cases, intensive services are available to employed workers who need more help to find or keep a job that will lead to self-sufficiency.
Through WIOA, youth are prepared for postsecondary educational opportunities or employment. Programs link academic and occupational learning and include tutoring, study skills training, and instruction leading to completion of secondary school (including drop-out prevention); alternative school services; mentoring by appropriate adults; paid and unpaid work experience (i.e. internships and job shadowing); occupational skills training; leadership development; and appropriate supportive services.
The 42-member Kentucky Workforce Investment Board (KWIB) serves as an advisory board to the Governor on workforce training and development issues. The KWIB is charged with creating a statewide vision for workforce development and adopting a plan to move Kentucky forward through workforce training and development.