Metro North Regional Employment Board
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 established sixteen local Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs) in Massachusetts. The focus of the legislation was the creation of a locally-controlled workforce system that emphasizes performance and customer satisfaction.
By law, business leaders must constitute a majority of the board with other members coming from education, training, labor, and economic development.
The functions of the Metro North Regional Employment Board (REB) include the following:
- Setting local workforce policy
- Selecting and overseeing career center operators
- Identifying eligible training providers
- Matching the needs of business for skilled employees with training opportunities in the area
- Promoting the participation of business in the statewide workforce system
- Coordinating local workforce activities with economic development strategies
- Assessing the effectiveness of the local workforce system
Metro North REB Committees
Career Center Committee
Oversees career center three-year rechartering process
- Ensures implementation of career center vision
- Reviews broad conceptual issues related to center services
- Evaluates career center performance
- Recommends strategies to ensure ongoing financial viability
Conducts ongoing career center oversight and evaluation
- Oversees the Consumer Advisory Group (CAG)
- Reviews customer feedback
- Reviews and recommends CAG member composition
Policy, Funding, and Oversight Committee
- Makes general planning decisions such as WIA plan development and funding
- Develops WIA performance standards and criteria
- Determines funding formula for career centers
- Reviews/approves Memoranda of Understanding (MOA) with One-Stop career center partners
Youth Council
- Develops portions of the local plan relating to eligible youth
- Recommends eligible providers of youth education and training services through a competitive RFP process
- Oversees and evaluates effectiveness of youth programs and providers
- Coordinates all youth workforce activities under WIA and other state and federal grants
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