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Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

WIOA

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) was signed into law on July 22, 2014. WIOA is designed to help job seekers access employment, education, training, and support services to succeed in the labor market and to match employers with the skilled workers they need to compete in the global economy. Congress passed the Act with a wide bipartisan majority; it is the first legislative reform of the public workforce system since 1998. The Arkansas Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act was established by Act 907 of 2015. Click here to learn more.


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Arkansas’ Workforce Development System

Arkansas’ workforce development system is a coordinated and collaborative network of services, programs and investments with a shared goal of improving the skills of the state’s workforce. The public workforce system works in partnership with businesses, educators, organized labor, and community leaders to foster economic development and high-growth opportunities in regional economies. This network further helps potential job candidates, particularly low-income youth, adults, and dislocated workers, overcome obstacles to successful employment. Employment and training services are coordinated and provided through the Arkansas Workforce Centers, the state’s one-stop delivery system.

WIOA brings together, in strategic coordination, the following core programs of federal investment in skill development:

Vision & Plan

Vision

The publicly-funded workforce system envisioned by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act is quality-focused, employer-driven, customer-centered, and tailored to meet the needs of regional economies. 

Plan

Under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, the governor of each state must submit a state plan to the U.S. Secretary of Labor that outlines a four-year workforce development strategy. 

Arkansas’ WIOA State Plan PYs 2022-2023

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FROM THE ARKANSAS DIVISION OF WORKFORCE SERVICES​

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