Virtual Artspace 3- Arts Sanctuary at the Crossroads in San Bernardino

Latest Info from DOL 

 

Arts in Ed Jobs- Anyone?  Where do all the teachers go?  Anyone using ARRA money to create community arts/learning spaces? Write us here and let us know.  Virtual Artspace 3 is a wiki conversation space posted by grad student, C. Lebo.  It's an extension of an insight that California just might be a space for new teams of collaborations and might turn into a new horizon of opportunities instead of a morass of broken dreams.

 

We have heard rumors of nonprofits helping to stabilize neighborhoods and social enterprise.

We'd like to bring such great and positive ideas to light.

 

Do you have content,ideas, articles, papers and instructors who have professional placement ideas, courses to offer, or might want to collaborate with others who are wondering what might emmerge out of the grand economic shift that is afoot.

 

New Education Options, Inc., our 501 c 3 is looking for a little connectivity. 

 

We have begun to explore what could happen to creating jobs for teachers during a summer vacation period like no other.  As an interim activity while all the ups and downs are going on, we thought continuing education might be an oasis to maintain dreams, cope with dramas, and ready for a return in assignment(s).  We want to capture input to discuss with other teachers and  hear about other's great uses of ARRA funds.

 

You are invited to "wiki in" about what's happening to you as an arts educator, adult educator, afterschool provider, artist, nonprofit and the like.  

 

If you want to write some articles and express what teaching means to you, the need for new kinds of learning communities, optional teaching spaces and for underwriting, we are looking for talent and educators and parents who care for what's next in Education. If some of the old, tried and no longer true paths for career options are too fluid to be sustainable- why not start a wiki-log about what would work?  Who you'd like to work with?  What this kind of workforce development might look like?

 

What are you doing with your time and focus in these dog day months?

 

What do you think San Bernardino-Riverside-LA counties need? What's going on in your neighborhood.

 

Please let us know.

 

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Welcome to The CWA American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) wiki

 

                            

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To see the California Recovery website, go here!

 

CWA is using this wiki to post all sorts of information about ARRA. We think this is better than just sending emails out all the time. Please check back here often and add to it.

 

Really depressing chart:

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Latest News

 

Recovery in Action: 100 Days In It's been 100 days since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed, and even as much of its benefit wll be felt through projects and ripple effects yet to come, the impact is already real.

 

Stimulus funds revive jobs program For the first time in five years, young and industrious San Joaquin County residents are able to nurture their creative side by painting murals while learning job-placement skills in a youth-employment program.

Video interview about ARRA in New York City, career pathways, and workforce development.

 

State, feds offer more help for the jobless.pdf This is an article in the San Francisco Chronicle Thursday April 9th with quotes from several of our Bay Area directors.

 

OIG workplan for ARRA.pdf This is the OIG plan for DOL ARRA review - DOL, States and locals. You should check this out.

 

Governor announces California Task Force for Recovery: http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/11814

 

USDE Federal Stimulus Act (ARRA) Powerpoint. Click the following link to view. Dr Marshall Smith American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.pdf

 

The latest DOL TEGL was released today, March 18th.  Click the following link to view.TEGL14-08.pdf

 

We have very unoffical info about what might be in one of the DOL TEGLs - click here to see. Again, this is draft and  is not what is in the final guidance.

 

Questions and Answers

 

Click on Questions and Answers above to go to the Q and A page. We are posting questions and either the answers we have OR letting you know when we do not have an answer yet. All the questions will be periodically collected and sent to the State and to DOL. If you have a question, post it here, and we will attempt to find an answer. OR if you have an answer, post that too! 

 

Youth Programs

summeryouth.pbwiki.comThis is the wiki CWA has created specifically for youth program resources - there is tons of good information, notes from the CWA Youth braintrust meeting, and more!

 

CA Youth at Work Fact Sheet 5-11-09.doc

 

Presentations

 

Richard Trigg, Regional Administrator, DOLETA remarks at CWA Back to Work Spring 2009 Conference

Macey Prince CWA Conference.pptThis is the powerpoint that Macey Prince from DOL Region 6 used in her presentation at the CWA Spring Conference, that describes the DOL and OMB guidelines for the use of ARRA funds, timelines, what common audit findings are, and a bunch of other useful info.

 

cde arra.ppt This is a presentation about ARRA developed by CDE regarding the educational provisions.

ARRA final pdf for legislature April 1.pdf This is a presentation given by Virginia Hamilton to the Select Committee on CTE and Workforce Development in the California State Legislature April 1, 2009.

 

ARRA presentation for CALED final.ppt 

ARRA for WIBs Oakland.pdf This is a presentation made at the Oakland WIB on March 25th.

ARRA for WIBs March 18 2009.ppt This is an updated powerpoint with latest info about ARRA, some useful info about the kinds of jobs being created by ARRA and the education levels required, a couple of slides about the brand new California Green Corps and the roles WIBs can play. 

Long Beach Stimulus Overview and Efforts.pdf This is a presentation submitted by Bryan Rogers of the Pacific Gateway WIB about all the stimulus efforts in Long Beach

long beach Stim Funding by Fed Agency.pdf Another from Long Beach

 

Resources

 

arra__careerpathways.pdf This is a document written by CLASP (Center on Law and Social Policy) that describes what some states are doing with ARRA funds related to career pathways.

TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT NOTICE NO. 45-08  American Recovery and Reinvestmnet Act of 2009 Competitive Grants for Green Job Training.

 

WIA_STATEPLANRECOMMENDATIONS04.20.09FINAL.PDF Recommendations to states from The Workforce Alliance

 

federaleconomicstimulustransportationprojects.pdf Information about transportation construction jobs in California, by county.

 

AnUnprecedentedOpportunity.pdf A document written by the California Health Foundation about using ARRA funds to advance Health IT in California. Here is another document - What California has to Gain (related to healthcare and ARRA)

 

A Map to Transportation Stimulus Money: A new report by PolicyLink and the Transportation Equity Network

 

provides a roadmap for advocates to ensure stimulus-funded public transportation projects bring hope and economic opportunity to millions of Americans hit “first and worst” by the economic downturn.

 

 

http://www.cael.org/webinar.htm This is a link to CAEL, and two free webinars on using ARRA funds, and green jobs. We like the CAEL people, so might want to try these out.

 

ARRAENERGYGREENJOBS.pdf This document has all the references to green jobs and energy. haven't even had time to read this.

 

ARRA Principles for State Implementation.pdf This document is from the Working Poor Families Project. Launched in 2002 and currently supported by the Annie E. Casey, Ford, Joyce, and Mott foundations, the Working Poor Families Project is a national initiative that works to improve these economic conditions. The project partners with 26 state nonprofit organizations and supports their policy efforts to better prepare America’s working families for a more secure economic future.

 

Recovery.gov The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be carried out with full transparency and accountability --Recovery.gov is the centerpiece of that effort.

 

Green for all-Recovery Act Guide-DRAFT.pdf This draft guide was developed by Green For All, and has lots of info about green jobs and ARRA 

www.greenforall.org This website has great resources about green jobs 

 

http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/?pageid=1032 This is EDD's website about green jobs. Lots of good info here.

 

www.kauffman.org/newsroom/fasttrac-launchpad-announced.aspx 

In light of the accelerating unemployment throughout the nation, the Kauffman Foundation has developed the FastTrac LaunchPad initiative was designed as an intensive effort to train entrepreneurs and get the economy moving again. The FastTrac LaunchPad programs are designed for people who have lost their jobs or entrepreneurs whose businesses are struggling in this tough economy. To help emerging and struggling entrepreneurs get a quicker start, the FastTrac LaunchPad programs are offered shorter time periods than the normally offered ten-week course schedule.

 

CaliforniasFutureEconomy121350PM.pdf This is a new report from our friend Steve Levy, who identifies a few major trends in California over the next ten years, links these trends to fiscal challenges facing state and local governments, and discusses possible reform agendas that would help the state better respond to these trends.

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200903/meltdown-geography This is an interesting article about what happens after the crash.

 

Law and Guidance from DOL

 

http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/attach/TEN/ten2008/TEN30-08.pdf The first Training and Employment Notice from DOL.

FY 09 stim Labor-HHS report language.pdf  This document is the conference report for the funding going through the Labor-HHS committee. It includes WIA and education language.

ARRA colloquy.doc This is a verbatim exchange bwtween senators that clarifies the intent of the WIA funds, which will probably be used by DOL in their instructions to the states.

OMB Guidance on Stimulus funds vs regular.pdf This document includes initial guidance from OMB on the use of the ARRA funds. Regarding Grants and Cooperative Agreements, see page 32, 5.1 (2) and (3).  Hopefully the DOL will include definitive guidance on this in the 3-19-09 TEGL.

 

 

WIA law.pdf

The majority of funds funneled into WIA under ARRA will be implemented under current WIA law and regulations. Here's the current governing statute governing OJT, work experience, supportive services, needs based payments, etc. 

 

finalrule.pdf These are the current WIA regulations.

 

ARRA law.pdf  the entire American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

 

TEN30-08 Initial Implementation Strategy ETA March 4.pdf 

This TEN addresses the "key features" of Recovery Act implementation, and discusses the "distribution of funds" and the "life of funds." The TEN also covers changes to the State Plan modification and waiver request process. The TEN addresses the planning process for the 2009 summer youth programs. This document also provides the anticipated timeline for events, releases and actions from March 4, 2009 to June 30, 2009, and contains a section devoted to an assessment of "system readiness."

  

TEGL13-08 Allotments.pdf

  

Training and Employment Guidance Letter 13-08

provides the allotments, summarizes the relevant background, and sets for policy and procedures for "quick and effective expenditure of funds." The memorandum describes the allotment process, within-State allocations, and transfers of funds for each of the programs. The TEGL also sets forth the reporting requirements.

 

California Specific Information

 

wsin08-50.pdf April 10 Information Notice re ARRA formula funds

  

Workforec Funding in CA.pdf this is a list of all the workforce related funding coming to California.

  

 

http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/speaker/News_Room/Press/press_releases/20090217AD47PR01.aspx

 

 

Press Release about the new Assembly Stimulus, Economic Recovery, and Jobs (SERJ) Task Force, which will be led by Assemblymember V. Manuel Pérez. The Task Force is expected to release a draft outline of a strategy for economic recovery next week, to be followed by hearings in Sacramento and in California communities.

 

 

 

BTH_Economic_Recovery_Work_Plans.pdf

 

 

 

 

Dale Bonner, Secretary of the Business, Transportation, & Housing Agency, announced last week that he has sent letters to more than 700 local officials, Chambers of Commerce, and economic development entities asking them to submit regional plans by April 1. These voluntary, regional plans are intended to inform the Administration's decisions about the use of stimulus dollars over which it has discretion. In addition to infrastructure, housing, and energy proposals, the Plan asks each region to identify opportunities to leverage federal, state, and local resources to build the skills of its workforce.

 

ARRA: Impact on all States

5 Recovery Act state-specific impact one-pagers 2-11.doc This is a document from the White House that has a state by state comparison of the impacts of ARRA

 

Pelosi's office impact to recipients ARRAStateDetails.pdf This document estimates the numbers of people who will be beneficiaries of some of the ARRA provisions in each state

 

Summaries of ARRA provisions

 

TWA_SUMMARY_ARRA_WORKFORCEPROVISIONSBILLLANGUAGECONFERENCEREPORT.pdf This has the workforce and related provisions of ARRA

 

NCEE ARRA final summary.docThis document contains information about all the funds related to job training, and other supports for work

 

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