To ensure continuity of purpose and provide overall guidance in vision and direction to the Workforce Investment System, the following goals have been endorsed by the Governor:

1. To design and implement a comprehensive, fully integrated workforce development system that appropriately balances state and local roles, responsibilities and accountability and fosters true 'local partnering and ownership' for regional workforce development.
   
   
2. To assure every employee, job seeker and employer are aware of and have universal access and choice to the full continuum of available workforce development programs and services in West Virginia.
   
   
3. To leverage collaboration, public and private, at all levels and among all stakeholders that builds system capacity, optimizes resources and sustains measurable high performance throughout the system.
   
   
4. To ensure connectivity between West Virginia economic development initiative and goals and workforce development activities so as to match career opportunities and programs to well-defined and documented workforce needs that results in a truly skilled workforce.
   
   
5. To advance a system-wide customer focused, quality culture that is continuously improved.
   
   
6. To demonstrate appropriate accountability of organizations, individuals and processes throughout the system.

The Council is presently undergoing a strategic planning process to update the state plan and create an action plan for the future. Please click on the State Plan link under POLICIES to view the present state plan submitted to the U.S. Department of Labor.