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Local Workforce Development Board
Planning Guidelines

Technical Assistance Tools

The resources and links listed below are assembled here to provide information helpful in the Board's planning process and to assist the Boards in completing, modifying or updating their Local Workforce Development Board Plans.

If you need assistance with any of these tools, please contact staff at board.plans@twc.state.tx.us.

Suggestions for additions to this page are welcome.

See also: Workforce Investment Act Information

Guidance on Local Board Plan Modifications

• WD Letter 25-12, Change 1: Local Workforce Development Board Planning Guidelines for Fiscal Years 2013-2018 - Update : WD Letter 25-12: Local Workforce Development Board Planning Guidelines for Fiscal Years 2013-2018 (September 7, 2012)Word or WD Letter 25-12, Change 1: Local Workforce Development Board Planning Guidelines for Fiscal Years 2013-2018 UpdatePDF
• Attachment 1: Texas Workforce Development Board Planning Guidelines for Fiscal Years 2013-2018 (Word)
• Attachment 2: Texas Workforce Investment Council Requirements for Board Plans (PDF)
• Attachment 3: Target Industries and Occupations Template (Excel)

Labor Market Analysis and Career Information

• LMI Resources and Contacts (PDF)
• TWC/LMCI Labor Market Planning and Research Documents
• NAICS Industry categories and Codes -- TWC/LMCI labor market analysis tools use primarily 4-digit level NAICS codes to identify industries.
  • Useful NAICS code lookup and search tools to assist in locating best-fit categories for industries of interest
  • Three-digit NAICS industries are useful in analyzing industry groups at a manageable level and are used in many TWC/LMCI industry analysis tools. View one-page descriptions of the three-digit groups.
• TWC/LMCI Industry Sectors - each industry in Texas is assigned to one of the eighteen TWC/LMCI industry sectors fully integrated with NAICS codes.
  • Descriptions of the sectors (Word)
  • Crosswalk that identifies all recognized industries (NAICS coded) in each sector (Excel), with information for corresponding Governor's Industry Clusters
• Guidance on conducting a clusters approach to regional workforce and economic development can be found in this TWC/LMCI publication: Getting Down to Business: A Practitioners Guide to Understanding and Operationalizing a Clusters Approach to Regional Workforce and Economic Development (PDF)

Governor's Industry Clusters

• Governor's Industry Cluster Initiative
• TWC/LMCI has comprehensively mapped the Governor's industry clusters against NAICS codes so they can be used in industry and occupation labor market analysis for applications such as Board planning. A variety of TWC/LMCI reference materials on the Governor's industry clusters is available at Texas Industry Profiles.
• These include a crosswalk that identifies all recognized industries (NAICS coded) in each cluster, with information for corresponding TWC/LMCI Industry Sectors (Excel)

Training Provider Information

• WIA Eligible Training Providers Program Information
• State Training Inventory

Performance Measure Resource Materials

• Performance Analysis and Reporting provides Performance Measure Resource Materials on the TWC Intranet.

Strategic Planning

• GAO's "Human Capital: Key Principles for Effective Strategic Workforce Planning" (PDF)
• Strategic Planning, Managing Strategically (PDF)