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coordination of the Department of Workforce on the federal, state and local plans; identify barriers to successful job placement at the state career centers and identify ways to help people better access to opportunities, skills development and career support. 05/07/2025 Alabama Workforce Board Chair of Alabama Workforce Boards Participated in quarterly meeting and the following was discussed: People- focused Career Centers and Services, State and Local governance, Strategic Workforce Plan, and Workforce Development Metrics. Coordination Coordination with the workforce development system consists of efforts to partner with workforce providers to directly serve SNAP E&T participants or to align the flow or types of services offered across programs. Describe any special State initiatives (i.e. Governor-initiated or through State legislation) that include SNAP E&T. Describe any efforts taken by the State agency to coordinate these programs, services, partners, and/or activities with the State's E&T program. State A-RESET staff continue to participate with the P-20W Council. The P-20W Council is a body composed of each agency head that is charged with establishing and managing a longitudinal data system, which contains Pre-K through postsecondary student information and connects it to Alabama’s workforce. “P” represents the preschool, “20” represents grade one through graduate school and “W” represents workforce. Through this, DHR provides input on the state’s efforts to integrate Alabama’s early childhood, elementary, secondary, post-secondary, and public workforce systems. The goal of this participation is to help ensure that all Alabamians can access training which leads to self-sufficiency. This furthers the Governor’s plan to ensure that there is “no wrong door” to providing services throughout the State. The State also participated in the DAVID Task Force. The task force focused on increasing usage of the DAVID Tool as means of providing informed consumer choice to participants in Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) core and partner programs. This tool allows staff to project income and income gaps for participants. Describe the extent to which the State agency is carrying out SNAP E&T programs in coordination with title I programs under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). The State continues to work to refer individuals to their local Career Centers to participate in Title I of WIOA programs. To have better access to information regarding these programs, the State is currently contracting with the Department of Commerce, which operates the system that the Department of Labor and the Career Centers use for data entry and data management. This system will allow A-RESET staff to have access to information for individuals receiving services from the Career Centers. 1/27/26, 9:44 AM State Plan AL FY26 - Original Submission https://dam-fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/microsite/snapet-alabamafy26stateplan//index.html 6/192