Pennsylvania

Common Measures System

 Why Common Measures?

Common Measures:
• Fits PA’s vision of integration of workforce
development
• Provides a “Baseline” for all employment and training
programs
• Integral part of workforce program reform
• Applies similar standards to all workforce
development programs

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 Pennsylvania’s
Common Measures System Features

Pennsylvania has always had all

Workforce Development Programs in the
PA CareerLink Operating System, but
were separate modules in the system.
•WIA
•Trade
•Labor Exchange

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 Pennsylvania’s
Common Measures System Features

Implementation of Common Measures

brought:

•Single Entry/Single Exit

•Common Measures Program Activity Log
•Composite Reporting
•Decrease duplicate data input
 Pennsylvania’s
Common Measures System Features

The key is the

Common Measures Program Activity Log.
• Single Entry/Single Exit
• Brings together program starts and exits for each
program
• Reporting cycle starts and exits
• Exclusions and Gaps in Service
• Reporting

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 “At Time of Participation”
Information

Screens are system-generated when:

• A staff person enters a value-added service in a
program
• A job seeker enrolls or performs a job search

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 “At Time of Participation”
Information

Program Participation Screens

• Labor Exchange (EE01)
• WIA (WE01)
• Trade (TE01)
• Self-Service (SE01)

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 SE01, EE01, TE01 and WE01

Questions:
• Labor Force Status at Time of Participation
• UI Status
• Highest School Grade Completed
• Military Status at time of Participation

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 ES Participant Search Screen

Allows staff to search by office

or county for:
• All current ES Participants
• Veterans
• ES Participants due to exit in 29 days or less

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 WIA Participant Search

WIA Participant Search Screen

• Can select the LWIA, County, or PA CareerLink office
• This search will show the names of job seekers
whose WIA Cycle will exit in the next 29 days or less.

• This means that they are 61 days past the last

estimated end date entered in the system or the WIA
hard exit

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 Exclusions and Gaps In Service

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 Self-Service Participation

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 Labor Exchange Self-Service
System Changes

The system was modified to capture

information and track job seeker self-
service participation.

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 Labor Exchange Self-Service
System Changes

Three Value Added Services to

create/extend Participation:
• Self-Service Enrollment Participation (SSEP) -
automatic
• Self-Service Job Search (SSJS) - automatic
• Self-Service Informational Activities (SSIA) -
added by staff

Counted as a separate program to track

performance
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 Reports

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 State to Federal Reports

Workforce Investment Streamlined

Performance Reporting (WISPR)
• PA has piloted WISPR along with Texas
beginning with the second quarter of PY06
• Standardization of data elements describing
activities of job seekers
• Utilizes a single set of data to show interaction
with the PA CareerLink system

See sample report in handouts

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 State to Federal Reports

WISRD - Individual Record Report

• Contains participant characteristics, activities, and
outcome information
• PA uses the Job Seeker User ID (JSUID) as the unique
identifier
• Submitted electronically for all applicable exiters as well
as literacy/numeracy participants on a quarterly basis

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 State to Local Reports

Labor Exchange
• Local Office Common Measures Performance
Reports
– Entered Employment
– Retention
– Average Earnings

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 State to Local Reports

WIA
• State and LWIA Performance Reports
– Aggregate Numbers
– Participant Back-up Reports
– Adults and Youth To Be Post Tested
 Contact Information

Program Management Section Chief

Cindy Gnech cgnech@state.pa.us (717) 787-0304

Program Information-WIA
Kevin Lyter: klyter@state.pa.us (717) 783-4888
Lisa Vicente: evicente@state.pa.us (717) 783-0127
Mike Fuller: mifuller@state.pa.us (717) 783-6874

Program Information-Labor Exchange

Kathy Moore: kathymoore@state.pa.us (717) 787-9886
Stephen Rzonca: srzonca@state.pa.us (717) 787-6352

Technical Information
Dan Villanova: dvillanova@state.pa.us (724) 339-5028
Michelle Fraker: mfraker@state.pa.us (717) 763-3237

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