WTDB Strategic Plan
View the 2025-2026 WTDB Strategic Plan
Essential to both vision and mission, the Workforce and Talent Development Board developed four strategic plan imperatives and associated objectives for their work - to be communicated to state and local partners and stakeholders. These imperatives are:
- An inclusive workforce system that advances equitable prosperity.
Strategic alignment of systems and partners toward shared workforce goals.
Clear understanding of and improved use and impact of the workforce system.
Accountable Workforce System Leadership.
WIOA Combined State Plan for Oregon
Under WIOA, the Governor of each State must submit a Unified or Combined State Plan to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor that outlines a four-year strategy for the State's workforce development system. Oregon submits a Combined State Plan that includes more partners than a Unified Plan. Oregon's Combined State Plan reflects the work of multiple agencies and organizations. Each of these entities have their own missions, visions, and values and this Plan weaves these together on behalf of the broader workforce development system to realize equitable prosperity for all Oregonians.
The WTDB approved Oregon's 2024-2027 WIOA State Combined Plan on February 29, 2024. The U.S. Departments of Labor and Education approved the Plan on May 31, 2024. The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture approved the Plan on September 13, 2024. The Plan is effective from July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2028.
Read the Oregon 2024-2028 WIOA State Combined Plan
Public Comment
2024-2027 Oregon WIOA Combined State Plan - 2026 Modification
The document linked above is a draft of Oregon's 2024-2027 WIOA Combined State Plan – 2026 Modification. This document is developed in accordance with the Information Collection Request (ICR) Required Elements for Submission of the Unified or Combined State Plan and Plan Modifications under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act approved through March 31, 2027 (OMB Control Number 1205-0522).
The public is invited to provide comments during the 30-day public comment period: March 16 through April 14, 2026. Comments must be submitted by email to: Clay Martin, clay.martin@hecc.oregon.gov
Comments will be reviewed and addressed as appropriate within the final Combined State Plan Modification. The recommended Combined State Plan will be considered for approval by the Oregon Workforce and Talent Development Board (WTDB) at a regular Executive Committee meeting on April 17, 2026. The approved Combined State Plan Modification will be submitted by April 30, 2026, to the U.S. Department of Labor and others.
WIOA Local Plans in Oregon
WIOA also requires local workforce development boards to submit plans for their local area every four years. New plans are submitted to and reviewed and approved by the WTDB. Local plans are expected to reflect local and regional needs and priorities and be aligned with the WTDB's 2023-24 Strategic Plan, 2023-2025 Joint Priorities, WIOA, and guidance and policy from the WTDB and the Higher Education Coordinating Commission Office of Workforce Investments (HECC OWI). Plans are effective from July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2028.
Read the 2024-2028 WIOA Local Plans
WTDB Policies
WIOA and other related federal law, Oregon Revised Statute (ORS) Chapter 660 – Workforce Development and other related state law, and the priorities of the Governor's Office and state agency leadership require or recommend policies typically affecting one or more partners in WorkSource Oregon (WSO). Generally, WTDB Policy will address:
- System policy areas affecting more than one partner in WSO (and potentially beyond WSO if appropriate), and/or
- Governance policy areas WIOA.
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