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20200713T165505 Summer Session: Petition Filing - How to Interview EmployeesBy: Virginia Navigator Trade Team This is the fifth blog in our Summer Session on Petition Filing. |
20200706T161948 The Credential QuestionBy: Angela Lopez, Director, TAA Services, National Able Network |
20200720T091700 Summer Session: How to Obtain Referrals from your PartnersSomebody knows something about everything. You don't always need to know the answer, just where to find it and who might be able to help you with it. Partner referrals are a necessary tool to serve workers under the TAA Program. The team from Virginia provides their insights on the subject. |
20200804T093334 Summer Session: Look Where They Brag - Part AFinding information on layoffs and shifts in production is not as straightforward as one might hope. Companies often downplay layoffs in one area while highlighting job growth in another. This blog provides some real-life tips from the field on finding that information and using it to help identify impacted workers. |
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20200810T081909 Summer Session: Look for the Numbers - Part BThe 8th installment of our Summer Sessions blogs. This entry from the Commonwealth of Virginia takes a look at some of the data sources states can use to explore trade impacts by industry and specific products using the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and others. |
20200831T092636 Leveraging Partnerships to Assist WorkersThe success of the nation's workforce development system rests on the ability to form, maintain, and leverage a variety of partnerships under the shared vision of serving workers and employers. This blog entry from Washington State highlights one of those partnerships. |
20201102T084155 Massachusetts Co-EnrollmentHi! This is Massachusetts and we want to share how, we maintain a 65-78% co-enrollment rate of Trade participants. TAA participants are co-enrolled with at least one other program (primarily Dislocated Worker). |
20201207T145705 Early Intervention for Petitioning Workersby Tim Theberge, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance States are required to provide Rapid Response and appropriate career services under WIOA to workers when a Petition for Trade Adjustment Assistance is filed on their behalf. The requirement exists regardless of the size of the layoff and regardless of whether the group of worker is ever certified under the TAA Program. The origin of the requirement dates back to 1985. How are we doing on that requirement? We're not entirely sure... yet. |
20201110T140400 Farewell Blog from JulieBy: Julie S. Baker It has been an honor and a privilege to lead the Program Development Division (PDD) at the Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance (OTAA). |
20200302T154032 TAA-WIOA Co-Enrollment Need Drives Policy ChangeBy Erin Cooper, Administrator of Workforce Services, Nebraska Department of Labor |
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20200622T140207 Summer Session: Petition Filing - A Certifying Officer's PerspectiveBy Hope Kinglock, Certifying Officer and Supervisor, USDOL/ETA Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance |
20200330T131323 Supporting State-Produced Digital Strategies (including videos, live streaming, and social media)By Susan Worden, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance |
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20200622T140443 Summer Session: Petition Filing - Virginia’s State Perspective on Trade Petition TipsBy: Virginia Trade Navigator Team This is the second blog in our Summer Session on Petition Filing. |
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20200629T162036 Summer Session: Petition Filing - Interviewing the EmployerBy: Virginia Navigator Trade Team This is the fourth blog in our Summer Session on Petition Filing. |
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20200622T140614 Summer Session: Petition Filing - How to turn an ITC determination into a Trade Petition FilingBy: Virginia Navigator Trade Team This is the third blog in our Summer Session on Petition Filing. |
20200106T130034 Healthcare Apprenticeships Offer Community College & Career PathwaysBy the Community College System of New Hampshire |
20200504T113913 TAA Administrative Collection of States (TAAACS) Process & Future AnalysisBy Robert Hoekstra, Technical Expert, Program Analyst, Performance Management and Data Reporting Unit, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance |
20200123T164801 Oregon TAA Pilot ProjectsBy Laura Lausmann, Oregon TAA Liaison, Oregon Employment Department |
20201030T115633 Illinois: Mandating Co-EnrollmentAlthough co-enrollment in WIOA Dislocated Worker is now required under the TAA Final Rule, this wasn't always the case. Many states had already implemented policies embracing co-enrollment. Illinois' initial efforts on co-enrollment were implemented back in October of 2005, with co-enrollment becoming mandatory in December of 2010. |
20201026T095259 Benefits of Co-EnrollmentContinuing in our series of guest blogs on co-enrollment of TAA Program participants in the WIOA dislocated worker program, this entry from Utah discusses the importance and benefits of co-enrollment on the suite of services made available to workers. |
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20201006T084822 West Virginia TAA/WIOA Co- Enrollment: Working togetherWest Virginia’s Acting Commissioner for Workforce West Virginia mandated co-enrollment for TAA participants into the WIA program in 2011. Mandated co-enrollment continued under the WIOA program in 2015. The Acting Commissioner’s primary objective is the timely delivery and integration of career and/or individual services and to promote a seamless delivery of these services to all dislocated workers. |
20200817T111416 Obligating Training FundsA little heavier than most of our blogs, this one will bring you through the ins and outs of obligating and de-obligating training funds under the TAA Program. There's also a discussion of accrued expenditures. Remember, they got to Capone through his bookkeeper... |
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20200908T094930 Summer Session: Collaboration - The Key to SuccessUtah discusses the importance and impact of collaboration among the different programs and partners in the workforce investment system in serving trade-affected workers. |
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20200921T115444 Data Driven Program Design: A Brief History of TAA Data and Co-enrollmentThe Department has advocated for co-enrollment between the TAA Program and Dislocated Worker program since the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act amended Title III of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in 1989. The TAA Final Rule, effective September 21, 2020, now makes co-enrollment mandatory. |
20200928T081830 Connecticut’s TAA/Title 1 Co-enrollment Steady Ascent to SuccessIn the second quarter of fiscal year 2015, Connecticut’s co-enrollment rate between Trade and WIOA was an embarrassing 2%. This is the short version of the story of how they have worked to improve the coordination between the TAA Program and WIOA and to raise the rate. In the second quarter of fiscal year 2015, Connecticut’s co-enrollment rate between Trade and WIOA was an embarrassing 2%. |
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20200417T123652 Trade Adjustment Assistance Digital Strategies Blog Series: KansasBy Phyllis Gish, Kansas TAA Program Manager |
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20200413T143214 Trade Adjustment Assistance Digital Strategies Blog Series: WisconsinBy Joan Kilian-Ikeler and Kirsten Cullen, TAA Program Coordinators |
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20200406T110755 Trade Adjustment Assistance Digital Strategies Blog Series: OregonBy Laura Lausmann, Oregon TAA Liaison, Oregon Employment Department |
20210426T115626 Co-Enrollment Policy Development – Story of ArkansasBy: Jay Bassett, Assistant Director, Arkansas Division of Workforce Services |
20210308T100058 Worker/Employer outreach letters – Do they do what they are intended to do?By Laura Lausmann, Trade Adjustment Assistance Liaison, WorkSource Oregon, |
20210322T120039 Colorado: A Combined TAA and TRA UnitBy Melissa Pratt, TAA/TRA Coordinator, Colorado Department of Labor and Employment |
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20210115T144727 Reversion and Sunset Clauses of the 2015 TAA ProgramWithout Congressional action, on July 1, 2021, the TAA Program will revert to a modified version of the Trade Reform Act of 2002. Any workers covered under a Petition for Trade Adjustment Assistance filed on or after July 1, 2021, would be covered by this modified version. by Tim Theberge, OTAA Staff |
20210517T162918 Massachusetts’ Strategies for Obtaining a Valid Worker ListBy: Susan Zebrak, TRA Coordinator, Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
20200106T125114 Getting Smart with Case Management FundsBy Joseph Criscuolo, TAA State Coordinator, Connecticut Department of Labor |
20190805T100447 Missouri's On-the-Job TrainingBy Myra Huhmann, TAA State Coordinator, Missouri Department of Economic Development |
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20191001T122035 Trade Readjustment Allowance: A Good News StoryBy Sam Johnson, TRA Coordinator, State of Michigan |
20191107T090257 They Are All Dislocated Workers: A View from TennesseeBy Mike Needel, Director of Business Services, Tennessee Department Labor & Workforce Development |
20190705T104218 When Ken and Barbie Went to Mexico…By Tim Theberge, Lead Policy Analyst, USDOL/ETA Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance |
20191008T122211 Indiana’s Social Media Outreach StrategiesBy Mandy Mahurin, TAA State Coordinator, Indiana Department of Workforce Development |
20191021T113539 Thinking Differently: Insights from OregonBy Jane Palmer, TAA Program Manager, Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training |
20210528T140720 TAA Initiatives Soar Thanks to Nationwide CollaborationBy Jennifer Detling, TAA Petition Coordinator, Colorado Department of Labor and Employment |
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20210608T161010 Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho. It’s into Reversion we go. (Again…)On June 3, 2021, the Employment and Training Administration published the Operating Instructions for TAA Program under Reversion 2021 via TEGL No. 24-20. Without Congressional action (which seems increasingly unlikely), on July 1, 2021, the TAA Program will revert to a modified version of the Trade Reform Act of 2002. Any workers covered under a Petition for Trade Adjustment Assistance filed on or after July 1, 2021, will be covered by this modified version. |
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20210621T162134 Together We Can Make Work-Based Learning the Preferred Method of TrainingWork-Based Learning (WBL) Community - A State-to-State Conversation By Laura Lausmann, TAA Liaison, Oregon Employment Department/Trade Program |
20210405T131418 Reviewing TAA Navigator by the Numbers - Impact on IntakeBy Susan Worden and Tim Theberge – OTAA Staff |