The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), announces the availability of approximately $11,600,000 in grant funds authorized by the WIOA Section 169 for the Workforce Data Quality Initiative (WDQI).
Donor Name: Employment and Training Administration
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Republic of Palau, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/10/2023
Size of the Grant: $2,900,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
The purpose of this program is to support the development or expansion of state workforce longitudinal administrative databases. Collecting and analyzing longitudinal data can provide a comprehensive picture of whether education programs lead to employment in related fields, whether jobseekers are obtaining training-related employment, and the impact of training on workers’ earnings throughout their careers. Through such deep dive analyses, states can identify service delivery strategies that improve employment opportunities, in particular for historically underserved populations, as well as demonstrate the benefits of education and workforce programs on employment outcomes. Data linkages can help state and local leaders identify effective pathways through education and training services that lead to success in the workforce and can provide individuals with information that helps them make informed choices about their education and career(s).
WDQI grants provide funding to eligible SWAs to accomplish all, or a combination, of the following objectives:
- Develop or improve the State Workforce Longitudinal Administrative Database
- Connect workforce data with education data contained in the Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS)
- Improve the quality and breadth of the data in workforce longitudinal administrative databases
- Use longitudinal data to evaluate the performance of federally and state- supported education and job training programs
- Understand the performance of Federal and State education and job training programs specifically in serving historically underserved groups
- Provide user-friendly information to help customers select the education and training programs that best suit their skills
- Integrate performance, fiscal, and/or case-management systems with the longitudinal administrative database
- Advance Racial Equity
- Promote Job Quality
The three categories are described below:
- LP1 – States without a workforce longitudinal administrative database that are proposing to create a workforce longitudinal administrative database;
- LP2 – States with a partially developed workforce longitudinal administrative database; or
- LP3 – States with a comprehensive workforce longitudinal administrative database.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $11,600,000
- Award Ceiling: $2,900,000
Period of Performance
The period of performance is 36 months with an anticipated start date of 07/01/2023. This performance period includes all necessary implementation and start-up activities.
Eligible Applicants
- State governments
Additional Information on Eligibility
- State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) – SWAs in the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Palau, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
- Among the eligible applicants listed above, ETA plans to prioritize the selection of applicants that identify their current capacity with regard to longitudinal administrative databases as Launch Point 2 and after those, prioritize applicants that have never received a WDQI grant (any LP).
- Applicants that previously received three or more WDQI grants are ineligible to apply. The following States’ SWAs have received three or more WDQI grants and are ineligible for this reason: Arkansas, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas and Rhode Island. Applicants that have an active WDQI grant are ineligible to apply. The following States’ SWAs have active WDQI grants and are therefore ineligible to apply: Arkansas, Indiana, Maryland, Mississippi, and New Mexico.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
