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move skilled job seekers into growth industries. d.To fully engage employers in the workforce development system to address the talent shortage. The Hawaii Unified State Plan includes a number of strategies under each goal. It is up to the discretion of the local board to determine what strategies best ft their local needs.(pgs.77-79) The HCWDB's Career&Business Committee,quantify and prioritize industry needs and skills gaps.As principal conveners, HCWDB will gather employer/industry input via focus groups,informational forums,and questionnaires,etc.The AJCH will serve as the implementation arm of broader workplace and workforce priorities set forth by our WOO. The HCWDB's vision and goals contribute to each of the Unified State Plan Goals in the following ways: a. The HCWDB has been and will continue to coordinate and align services by providing businesses and job seekers a high quality A1CH center that connects them with a full range of workforce services.Aligning the Local Area Plan and the State Unified Plan goals by having the AJCH partners coordinate their services will ensure that seamless service will be provided. Meetings held with core partners and other key service providers on a monthly basis to discuss successes,challenges and solutions to achieving coordinated- aligned service will assist with this process. b. HCWDB continues to improve and target workforce services to individuals lacking economic opportunity through the following program priorities: • Disconnected youth (school drop-outs,juvenile offenders, and those that have aged out of foster care,and pregnant or parenting teenagers) • Re-entry population • Veterans • Individuals with disabilities • Individuals with barriers to employment such as low income,cultural and language barriers and literacy issues • Native Hawaiians C. In order to develop sector strategies and career pathway systems that will integrate education and training and move skilled job seekers into growth industries,the HCWDB is working on enhancing and rebranding the AJCH.The A)CH will have the support of the Career and Business Committee which will identify and promote sector strategies,engage employers and assist with developing career pathways. In accordance with the State goals,the HCWDB will use economic data, industry clusters and industry resources to determine growth and align policies and funding streams across education,workforce,and economic development systems and all levels of government to focus public resources on the training that moves workers into industries with high-quality jobs that lead to betterfinancial outcomes and longer job tenures for workers. HCWDB and the AJCH will work closely with the Community College to identify education and training needs. Programs will need to be developed to meet those needs. d. To fully engage employers in the workforce development system to address the talent shortage the Career and Business Committee and the AJCH Operator will coordinate and implement effective strategies to address the engagement of sector partnerships/employers to promote our workforce development system. In alignment with the State plan,they will focus on short-and long-term goals aligned with industry needs,developed with industry input and sustained through industry oversight and participation. 18