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Pursuant to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) the SWDB consists of a board of directors and chair appointed by the Governor. The SWDB is the state’s chief workforce policy organization. The SWDB provides policy direction and oversight to Florida’s Local Workforce Development Boards (LWDBs). CSF is the administrative entity created by the Florida Legislature to act under the SWDB. The state’s broad workforce strategic vision and goals are expressed through the WIOA Unified State Plan. 4. Local Workforce Development Board (LWDBs): Local Control, Accountability, and Delivery of Services. The LWDBs are responsible for implementing the state’s workforce programs, including WT, other TANF non-assistance programs and employment support services at local career centers. The LWDBs develop innovative programs tailored to the specific economic and employment needs of the community. Primarily made up of local business representatives in each area, the LWDBs focus on planning, policy implementation, and fiscal and programmatic oversight of the local workforce system. 5. Workforce System: Job Training, Education, and Employment Options. The workforce system provides a full menu of job training, education, and employment options for workers, job seekers, WT participants, and local businesses at the local career centers or via electronic access. The workforce delivery system includes numerous partners, including DCF, working together under memoranda of agreement, customer referral procedures, specifying services provided, and cost allocation formulas. 6. Department of Education, Division of Early Learning (DOE, DEL): Administration of TANF Childcare Services. DEL functions as the funding and oversight entity for the local coalitions providing childcare assistance to current and transitional TANF participants.

1.5 PROGRAM GOALS

The TANF/WT emphasizes work, self-sufficiency, and personal responsibility as a program structured to enable participants to move from welfare to economic self- sufficiency. To accomplish this, the Florida Legislature, using federal/state funds and statutory requirements, developed a comprehensive program structured to meet the following goals: 1. Assist needy families so children may be cared for in their own home or in the homes of relatives. 2. Develop opportunities for families to provide for their own needs, enhance their well-being, and preserve the integrity of the family, free of impediments to self- reliance. 3. End the dependence of needy families on government assistance by emphasizing work, self-sufficiency, and personal responsibility while meeting the transitional needs of program participants who need support to achieve independent, productive lives and gain the responsibility that comes with attaining self- sufficiency.