CWI Dashboard Overview

Council on Workforce Investment (CWI) dashboards provide a method to track the progress on the actions in the CWI Strategic Plan.

The Council on Workforce Investment Strategic Plan is divided into four focus areas and objectives. The objectives are divided into desired future state and metrics. More details are in the latest version of the Governor's Council on Workforce Investment Strategic Plan.

The dashboard's top line of tabs are the CWI focus areas and WIOA Performance. The second line are the objectives under each of the focus areas. The metrics aligned with those objectives are located below the tabs. You can click on any of the objective in the dashboard to gain more detailed information about them.

Reinvigorate Wisconsin's culture and value of education and innovation to fuel ideas, businesses, people, and the next generation for future economic well-being and ensure that individuals from all backgrounds have access to the education, training, and support they need to achieve their full potential.

  • Objective 1A: Early Childhood Education - Support the initiatives presented by the Departments of Public Instruction (DPI) and Children & Families (DCF) in the Preschool Development Grant Birth to 5 Statewide Strategic Plan to ensure that by 2023 all Wisconsin families will have access to high-quality, affordable, local early care and educational opportunities.
  • Objective 1B(i): Career Pathways - Increase career exploration opportunities while students are in K-12 and provide all students the opportunity to participate in dual enrollment, earn a certificate/credential, or participate in work-based learning prior to high school graduation with emphasis on credentials where dual secondary and post-secondary academic credit is awarded.
  • Objective 1B(ii): Career Pathways for Adults - Expand opportunities for adults from all populations to earn a certificate/credential, participate in work-based learning, and access other career pathway possibilities that allow fair and equitable access to meaningful, family-sustaining employment.
  • Objective 1C: Entrepreneurship - Include or strengthen entrepreneurship as an outcome within workforce development and educational planning/programming.

Engage all employers to drive, build, and utilize Wisconsin's workforce development system.

  • Objective 2A: Increase the number of employers that offer work-based learning experience and lifelong training for all youth and adults.
  • Objective 2B: Support employers' efforts to attract, hire and retain employees from all populations.
  • Objective 2C: Expand opportunities for employers to provide input regarding their current and future workforce needs and requirement (e.g., specific skills, credentials, people, resources) to the workforce development system.
  • Objective 2D: Improve employer awareness and utilization of the workforce development system.

Increase Wisconsin's workforce participation by promoting infrastructure to improve access to job opportunities, incentivize workforce participation, and by improving the sustainability of work for individuals and families.

  • Objective 3A: Strengthen collaboration and support the equity and inclusion plan to coordinate program among public and private entities that can help historically underrepresented/under-resourced individuals and families overcome barriers to employment.
  • Objective 3B: Incentivize workforce participation for individuals currently receiving public benefits in order to support their transition to sustainable employment.
  • Objective 3C: Coordinate programs serving specific populations across the agencies to promote workforce participation.
  • Objective 3D: Develop and promote strategies and programs for employers to attract and retain diverse talent/workforce.
  • Objective 3E: Develop and target strategies that increase the number of individuals who are work and career ready.
  • Objective 3F: Support policies that promote resilience of incumbent workers.

Advocate for resource alignment to maximize return on investment and use data for continuous improvement of the workforce system.

  • Objective 4A: Identify and address the organizational and structural changes necessary to improve collaboration and accountability.
  • Objective 4B: Continue developing a longitudinal data system and identify opportunity for collaboration and extend capacity to support evidence-based decision making.
  • Objective 4C: Define and create an effective state and local partner communication strategy to increase awareness of workforce services.
  • Objective 4D: Build a stronger, more coordinated relationship between state and local workforce partners.