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2 Table of Contents Conference Information ........................................................ 5 Conference Schedule-at-a-Glance ................................ 6-7 Featured Speakers ............................................................ 10-11 Conference Schedule ..................................................... 13-25 PWDA Officers and Board of Directors ................ 26-27 Members .................................................................................... 29 Meet the Exhibitors ..........................................................30-31 Conference Sponsors ........................................................... BC 3 4 Conference Information Exhibit Hall/Networking Visit the Exhibit Hall and meet virtually with providers of cutting-edge products and services in all facets of workforce development. Get your passport stamped by all exhibitors to be entered to win a VISA card from PWDA, two winners will be selected per day. Door prizes will be awarded based on attendance during the Virtual Showcase. All prize winners will be announced the following day. We appreciate the generous support of our door prize sponsors. 2021 Annual Conference Theme Contest – click here to enter. Social Media Follow us on Twitter @paworkforce using #WkDevWorksPA to receive the latest conference information and follow announcements. Speakers Bureau Following the conference, PWDA will post the Speakers Bureau on its website at www.pawork.org. The Speakers Bureau is a list of workshop presenters, their organizational affiliation, and contact information. Conference Evaluation Tell us how we did. PWDA will email an online survey to all registrants. PWDA appreciates your feedback on this year’s conference and ideas for next year. PWDA strives to continuously improve the conference to meet the training needs of the workforce development system and its partners. Become a member of PWDA. 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PWDA 37th Annual Conference May 5-7, 2021 5 Schedule-at-a-Glance Wednesday, October 21, 2020 • STEM Ecosystems and Workforce Development 10:00 am-11:00 am Partnerships Welcome, Carrie Amann, Executive Director, PWDA • Rejuvenating Reentry - A Look Inside PA Corrections Opening Keynote - Rocky Bleier and Parole – Live Session • Middle School Students + “Future You With the 11:00 am–11:45 am Library” = College and Career Readiness Success Workshops: Round One • Bridging Partnerships to Break Barriers • Policy Grab Bag: Operator, Planning, Credentialing, Performance, Waivers and MORE • Registered Apprenticeship Navigator: An Approach to Expanding the Apprenticeship Ecosystem • Engaging Youth Through Business Education Partnerships • Dispelling Myths and Removing Barriers - Employing Individuals with Disabilities • Expanding Registered Apprenticeship Opportunities Through US DOL Initiatives • Five Trends That Will Change Workforce Development – Live Session • Entrepreneurial Program Elevate or Launch • Workforce System Funding Overview • A Preview of the First PA CareerLink® Cross-training Module • Telling the Whole Story: How Data and Storytelling Support Effective Workforce Development Solutions 1:30 pm-1:45 pm • Turning Business Services Table Talk into Positive Grab a Snack/Wellness Break Employment Outcomes and Partnerships 1:45 pm-2:30 pm • How to Establish a Committee Focused on Workshops Round Three Individuals with Disabilities • Career Ready PA--Meet the PDE Liaisons and Make • Grant Compliance Oversight - How to Meet Grant Career Ready PA Connections Compliance Requirements During COVID • Let’s Talk About Pre-Apprenticeship for Opportunity 11:45 am-12:15 pm Youth – Live Session Lunch Break/Networking & Presenter Q&A • Equity Motivation for Workforce Development Organizations 12:15 pm-12:45 pm • Supporting Workforce: The Need for Child Care Governor’s Employer Awards Access 12:45 pm-1:30 pm • The Power & Potential of Near Completers and Workshops Round Two Comebackers • Virtual Motivation! Motivating Clients Virtually! • Overview of PA Unemployment Compensation • PA SLIP - High Impact to Regional Strategies Benefits Modernization 6 • Telling Your Story – Leveraging Traditional & Digital • Unlocking the Talent of the Hidden Workforce Media to Influence Your Audience • Partnerships with Higher Education: The Secret • YCAL in the Drivers Seat Recipe to Sustainable Workforce Development – Live Session • Participant Motivation and Goal Planning Tools • Business Services: A Response to the COVID0 19 • Secondary CTE Administrators: Critical Partners in Pandemic the Talent Pipeline for the Future of Work • Meet Pennie – Pennsylvania’s New State-Based 2:30 pm-3:30 pm Health Insurance Exchange Virtual Showcase (w/Networking & Presenter Q&A) • Not Your Grandfather’s Strategic Plan Part I 12:15 pm-12:45 pm Thursday, October 22, 2020 Lunch Break/Networking & Presenter Q&A 10:00 am-10:30 am Governor’s Achievement Awards 12:45 pm-1:30 pm Workshops: Round Six 10:30 am-11:15 am • DHS – CAO Meeting – Workshops: Round Four Closed Session • Improving Workplace Skills Using the Foundation Skills • Multi-Gen Workforce Program Model – A Focus on Framework Family Success • Crisis Mitigation: Using Case Management to Support • Career Pathways Model Customers in Crisis • This Takes a Village Too.... • The Impact WIOA’s New Nondiscrimination Rules on • Preparing Youth with Disabilities for the Workforce: A Workforce Development Funding Recipients Creative and Collaborative Approach • Dinosaur vs. Astronaut: Which will you be? • Investing in Youth 12-24 Years Old • Employment First, a Team Effort by DHS Offices, • Incorporating Evidence Based Strategies in OLTL,ODP and OMHSAS Workforce Development – Live Session • Legal Literacy: Working with a Criminal Record • Avoid the Cliff - Child Care and Other Transitional • Not Your Grandfather’s Strategic Plan Part II Benefits for TANF and SNAP Participants – Live Session (must view Part I pre-recorded session • Soft Skills is the Magic Sauce to Your Programs! prior to participating in Part II) • Use Your Strategic Plan to Increase Board 1:30 pm-2:30 pm Engagement and Effectiveness Virtual Showcase (w/Networking & Presenter Q&A) • Innovative Approaches to Out-of-School Youth Engagement 11:15 am-11:30 am Friday, October 23, 2020 Grab a Snack/Wellness Break 9:00 am-10:00 am Pennsylvania Agency Secretary Policy Panel 11:30 am-12:15 pm Workshops: Round Five 10:00 am-11:00 am Closing Keynote – Farai Chideya • How to Implement Trauma-Informed Healing- Centered Programming Within TANF and Workforce 11:00 am-11:15 am Development Closing Remarks – Carrie Amann • PAForward™: Literacy is Power. Libraries Provide the Executive Director, PWDA Fuel • SNHU Powered by JEVS: How Competency-Based Postsecondary Education Upskills Talent • Reaching Incarcerated Youth: Creating Partnerships to Serve Justice Involved Participants 7 Featured Speakers Opening Keynote Speaker Pennsylvania Agency Secretary Policy Panel Rocky Bleier Friday, October 23, 2020, 9:00-10:00 am Wednesday, October 21, 2020 Join us for an engaging panel session featuring 10:00-11:00 am state agency secretaries and executive leaders discussing current events and priority matters for Rocky Bleier’s story - a gripping the customers they serve and the system they lead. tale of courage on both the football fields of America and the battle fields of Vietnam - has held audiences in rapt attention Russell Redding, Secretary for years. Yet, the motivational message behind PA Department of Agriculture it, detailing how ordinary people can become extraordinary achievers, defines success in the new Governor Tom Wolf nominated American century. Russell Redding to serve as the 26th Secretary of Agriculture With the same optimism, sense of humor and for the Commonwealth of steadfast determination that were his trademarks Pennsylvania He is the former dean of the School as a Pittsburgh Steelers running back, Rocky Bleier of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at takes audiences from his early years through his Delaware Valley University. Redding has spent professional career and talks about the lessons he more than 25 years representing Pennsylvania learned along the way...lessons from which we can agriculture as a public servant in Harrisburg and all benefit. Washington D.C. A native Pennsylvanian, Redding grew up on his family’s dairy farm and now For more than two years, he drove himself. Little operates a general crop farm in Gettysburg with by little he overcame obstacles and fought his way his family. Redding is a graduate of Penn State’s back. He not only made the Pittsburgh Steelers, but College of Agricultural Sciences. also eventually became a starting running back on a team that won four Super Bowls and became the greatest football team of the 20th century. Dennis Davin, Secretary PA Department of Community The hard lessons Rocky Bleier learned early in his & Economic Development life that helped him overcome adversity and reach his goals, have paid off after football. These lessons Dennis M. Davin was appointed are seen between the lines in the popular book on by Governor Tom Wolf to serve his life, “Fighting Back” and on stages of speaking as Secretary of the Department appearances around the country. of Community and Economic Development (DCED) In this position, Secretary Davin leads 8 the commonwealth’s efforts to support business advance Governor Wolf’s health innovation and growth, strengthen the workforce, and revitalize workforce development agendas, overseeing the communities across Pennsylvania. Since the