Workforce Data Quality Initiative Grants

Post Date

March 11th 2013

Application Due Date

April 25th 2013

The closing date for receipt of applications under this announcement is April 25, 2013. Applications must be received no later than 4:00:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Funding Opportunity Number

SGA-DFA-PY-12-07

CFDA Number(s)

17.261

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Employment, Labor and Training

Number of Awards

6

Eligibility Categories

Other

Eligible applicants for this solicitation are those SWAs within the 25 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands that currently do not have a WDQI grant as a result of solicitation SGA-DFA-PY-11-01. The Department anticipates funding at least four SWAs that are not currently WDQI grantees. In addition, eligible applicants for this solicitation are those SWAs that received round one WDQI funding under solicitation SGA-DFA-PY-09-10. The Department anticipates funding up to two SWAs that are current grantees (funded under SGA-DFA-PY-09-10) to aid in the further production and dissemination of workforce training provider performance information and outcomes in a standardized, easy to understand format (e.g., scorecards), consistent with all applicable Federal and State privacy laws. In order to be eligible to apply, the SWA must be a member of WRIS2. States ineligible for this round of funding include: Arkansas, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Rhode Island, and Washington.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $6000000

• Award Range:

  $None - $1200000

Grant Description

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL or the Department), announces the availability of approximately $6 million from funds made available through the Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 DOL appropriation for Training and Employment Services for grants to State Workforce Agencies (SWA) to expand the Workforce Data Quality Initiative (WDQI). The Department has reserved up to 3 percent of this roundуs total grant funding (a maximum amount of $193,890) to provide technical assistance to assist grantees in developing and implementing their WDQIs. For the remainder of this document, reference to the databases being created under the WDQI may be called рworkforce longitudinal administrative databasesс or рworkforce longitudinal databasesс interchangeably. Grants awarded will provide SWAs the opportunity to develop or expand State workforce longitudinal administrative data systems. These State longitudinal data systems will, at a minimum, include information on programs that provide training, employment services, and unemployment insurance; connect with education data contained in Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) databases; be linked longitudinally at the individual level to allow for enhanced opportunity for evaluation of federally and State-supported education and workforce programs; be capable of generating workforce training provider performance information and outcomes in a standardized, easy to understand format (e.g. scorecards), consistent with all applicable Federal and State privacy laws; and, lead to better information for customers and stakeholders of the workforce system. Where such longitudinal systems do not exist or are in early development, WDQI grant assistance may be used to design and develop these systems. WDQI grant assistance can also be used to improve upon existing State longitudinal systems. Current round one WDQI grant recipients who were awarded under solicitation SGA-DFA-PY-09-10 and states that currently do not have a WDQI grant are eligible for this competition.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Labor

• Office:

  Employment and Training Administration

• Agency Contact:

  Ariam Ferro
  Grants Management Specialist
  Phone 202-693-3968

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Email Grant Specialist

• Agency Email Address:

  ferro.ariam@dol.gov