Randy Painter is a Supervisory Workforce Analyst with the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Workforce Investment. He oversees the unit responsible for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Adult and Dislocated Worker formula programs, the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment
Service, and the 2,400 American Job Centers located across the U.S.
United States Air Force Veteran, Dr. Harlan Harrel is a Workforce Analyst with the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Workforce Investment. He serves as the Veterans’ Services and Support Subject Matter Expert (SME) to the unit responsible for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Adult and Dislocated Worker formula programs, the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service, and the 2,400 American Job Centers located across the U.S. Dr. Harrell’s central theme:“navigating the beautiful struggle: thriving in spite of the fault lines”.
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We are excited to have our two guests provide information about WIOA programming that helps veterans. I have a few questions below to get us started, but please feel free to add additional questions and comments to the post.
1. What are the top three things people might not know about WIOA programming as it relates to veterans?
2. What are some of the common barriers that veterans and their families face that WIOA programs may be able
to support?
3. How can adult basic education programs connect individuals with services that can help veterans and their
family members overcome barriers?
4. Over 30 years ago, Kimberle’ Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” to describe the way people’s social
identities can overlap. For example, we may have a veteran who is female and a person of color and low income
and unemployed come to the local one-stop for help. What suggestions do you have for WIOA core program
staff that may find themselves
Thank you, Dr. Harrell for sharing all this great information. We greatly appreciate you taking time to be a guest host in our group discussion. Also, thank you for your service to our country.
The Learners with Disabilities group had a live event- Educational Resources for Veterans and their Qualified Family Members and you can find all the great resources that were shared during the event in this discussion post.