Jeb Bush
Governor
Susan Pareigis
Director	
		
MEMORANDUM

Date:	June 23, 2005

To:	Regional Workforce Board Executive Directors

From:	 Lois A. Scott, Program Manager, One-Stop and Program Support

Subject:	Workforce Investment Act (WIA) One Stop Management Information System (OSMIS) Resource Guide 

The Agency for Workforce Innovation (AWI) is proud to introduce the WIA OSMIS Resource Guide. The draft version of this document was sent to the regions for review and comment for a 30 day period. During this time, AWI received much positive feedback on the content, features, and functionality as well as some helpful suggestions for improving the guide. After incorporating many of the suggestions offered, AWI is now issuing this document for full use by all workforce staff and partners.

This Resource Guide was created with the mindset of having a single source of information incorporating policies, guidance papers, memorandums, communiqués, and questions and answers applicable to the WIA program. We are hopeful that this guide will serve as a valued resource to all levels of staff from the WIA expert to a newly hired staff member. It has a multitude of quick links and screen shots allowing the end user to quickly access the needed information without taking up much of the user’s PC memory. 
 
The format of the WIA OSMIS Resource Guide is as follows:

•	What’s New
•	Table of Contents 
•	Chapter Overviews (incorporating WIA Policy)
•	WIA Reports
•	Frequently Asked Questions
•	Appendix Section (with the details of each chapter including data element definitions)
•	Detailed Index (with specific sections and subsections for quick reference)

This Resource Guide is and will always be a “work in progress” which is why it is now being posted and maintained on the AWI website. Consequently, staff need to stay alert and keep checking back to the website for periodic updates rather than considering a printed or CD copy of the guide as the most up to date version. Alerts will be sent to the regions and posted on the Administrative website providing dated and detailed descriptions on the specific changes and sections modified in the Resource Guide. However, the guide will be archived before changes are made in order to provide an accurate history for monitoring and data validation purposes. 

The Resource Guide can be accessed via the web at http://www.floridajobs.org/pdg/resourceguides/WIA_OSMIS_Resource_Guide062205.doc. In addition to the web based access, AWI will send a copy of this guide on CD in order for regions to make it available as deemed appropriate. This will be useful to those locations with slower web access and/or older machines. Again, it is important to realize that since the resource guide will continuously be updated, a printed or copied version may have expired. For this reason, AWI recommends accessing the web version whenever possible.

It is the agency’s intent that this document provide all the information necessary to enable regions and service providers to effectively serve WIA customers. 

If you have any questions regarding the WIA OSMIS Resource Guide, please contact Dehryl McCall at dehryl.mccall@awi.state.fl.us or 850-245-7402.

LAS/odm

cc: 	Barbara Griffin
	Susan Simpler
Mike Switzer
Regional Liasons