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I MPACT
REPORT
OCTOBER 2020- SEPTEMBER 2021
Celebrating the Past
Embracing the Future
TABLE OF CONTENTS WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS TEXOMA
Who We Are 3
Message From the Executive Director 4
Message From the Board Chair 5
CAREER EXPLORATION
Summer Earn and Learn 6
Careers in Texas 7
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Job Fairs
Business Education for Teachers 8
Student HireAbility Navigator
Career Education and Outreach
Specialists 9
CHILD CARE SERVICES
Child Care Services & Performance 10
Quality Projects 11
CELEBRATE SUCCESS 12
PERFORMANCE 13
14
BOARD MEMBERS
CELEBRATING THE PAST 15
PAGE 2WHO WE ARE
The Texoma Workforce Development Board is a volunteer board.
Board members oversee the delivery of employment and training
programs in the Texoma Workforce Development Area. Comprised of
Cooke, Fannin and Grayson Counties, the Texoma Area covers 2,700
square miles and is home to approximately 200,000 people.
Operating under the name Workforce Solutions Texoma, the Texoma
Workforce Development Board and its contractors, operate a center
in each of the three counties.
community-focused
Business-led
REGIONAL GOALS
Connecting Business/Industry with
Education
Increasing Literacy Levels through Adult
Education
Engage in Regional Planning
Chief Elected Officials
The Honorable Jason Brinkley The Honorable Randy Moore
Cooke County Judge Fannin County Judge
The Honorable Bill Magers The Honorable David Plyler
Grayson County Judge City of Sherman Mayor
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PAGE 3Message from the Executive Director
JANIE BATES
October 2021 marks the 25th anniversary of the Workforce Solutions Texoma Board! Many
things have changed over the past 25 years and we have seen countless successes. When we
first formed the Board (due to new legislation), we were a department of the Texoma Council
of Governments (TCOG). Our Board was the 3rd one certified in Texas—not bad for a staff of
3! Soon after the certification, we transitioned to our own agency. The Board office was
originally located on Woodard Street in Denison and the former Sherman Board office was the
Workforce Center for Grayson County. The Gainesville Workforce Center was located
downtown and Bonham’s Workforce Center was in the current location. Our Sherman center
quickly outgrew that location and moved into our current Workforce Center in Denison. We
also recently moved the Gainesville office to a great new center and moved the Board office
next door to the Denison Center.
When we became our own agency, we only had one program (the former WIA), but soon
added Child Care, SNAP, TANF-Choices and ES. Thankfully, along with those programs, came a
few more staff and in the days since, many more programs. There were many sleepless nights
and early mornings for me because I had no clue what I was doing and neither did anyone
else! The legislation was new, no one had any idea what a workforce board was and there
was no one to guide us—just two 4” binders of instructions on how to write a plan and a very
clunky piece of legislation.
Thanks to many great board members, county judges and mayors we made it through those
tough days and learned how to survive all the changes. I will always be grateful for the
leadership provided by Judge Horace Groff. Our chair at the time, Janet Gott, spent some long
days in Austin with me while waiting to testify before the Texas Legislature. She and
Representative Larry Phillips were such great supporters who not only helped Texoma but the
entire state. Workforce Solutions Texoma has definitely had an impact on our region and the
state during our 25 years.
Partnerships developed with our economic development entities, colleges, cities and
counties. Those partnerships have given our residents greater skills and provided our
employers with a quality workforce. Staff in our three Workforce Centers have served
thousands of residents, helping them find jobs, access training for in-demand careers and
helped many families afford quality child care. We appreciate the widespread support of our
community—our success is your success!
Again, thank you for your support and we plan to serve Texoma another 25 years!
PAGE 4Message from the Board Chair
DEE LOUGH
As we approach the 25th anniversary of what has evolved into Workforce Solutions Texoma, it
is quite impressive to see the changes which have taken place since our inception. When I
began my work career, Texas Employment Commission was somewhat a last resort for those
folks looking for work or choosing to file for unemployment insurance. It was not considered a
very customer friendly environment by many and was not the first choice for most if you were
looking for work.
Fast forward to the present and Workforce Solutions has transformed into what is truly a
"solution" to what employers and employees alike can turn to in order to satisfy an ever-
changing work environment. Our childcare component answers the need for quality care for
young children enabling parents to seek employment and a better life for their families. Our
skills training offers hope to those seeking to improve their prospects of a better job and a
better future. Our programs to introduce high school students to the world of manufacturing
and the opportunities available to them for good paying, technical level jobs, are giving
options to students who may not be ready to move directly from high school to college. The
teacher externships are a cooperative endeavor between business and the school systems to
give teachers insight into real world of work. This allows them to tailor classwork to prepare
their students to go out into the world with a knowledge of what it takes to live in a daily
work environment.
Those are just a few of the reasons I am so proud to have been associated with Workforce
Solutions Texoma since its beginning. One of the best decisions our team made during the
formation of this organization was the choice of Janie Bates as the Executive Director. Janie
has developed a team of outstanding and talented individuals who make a difference in the
lives of our clients every day. The work they do and the integrity they display is a source of
pride and confidence to those of us who serve on the board.
It has been my pleasure to serve on this board and I appreciate the honor of serving as Chair.
PAGE 5CAREER EXPLORATION
SUMMER EARN & LEARN
Summer Earn & Learn offers eligible students with disabilities, aged 14-22, an opportunity to
test their skills in the real world with paid internship opportunities at local employers. The
program connects these students to successful work experiences, which helps them gain job
skills and build confidence. Multiple worksites that previously participated returned this year.
The participant enjoys working
Workplace readiness training with the dogs. The supervisor
states she is doing a great job
Supports and Accommodations and is always prompt and a
favorite among the volunteers.
Competitive wages
Worksite-Denison
Animal Welfare Group
A special "Thank You" to the Worksites who mentored our students.
• 1st Quick Check • Habitat for Humanity Store
• Bi-Lo Wholesale • Hilton Garden Inn
• Blossom Shoppe • Howe ISD
• Born 2 Be Therapeutic Equestrian Center • Kwik Chek
• C&M Horses • Lakeway Resale Barn
• City of Gainesville-Fairview Cemetery • Nautilus Fitness-Denison
• City of Whitewright Library • Preston Trail Farms Store
• CJ's Coffee Roaster • Tioga ISD
• Denison Animal Welfare Group • TPWD-Bonham State Park
• Gainesville ISD • Traditions Senior Living
• Garner Games • Valsar Electric
• Grayson College-CWL • Visto
Kaylee states her boss is
Texoma's Summer Earn & Learn Lane is a great help and staff
pretty good and she likes 36 - Participants registered enjoy working with him. The
33 - Completed Work Readiness supervisor and work
working and staying busy.
Training experience trainer both agree
When she gets paid, she
that Lane has a great attitude.
wants to buy gel pens. 31 - Placed in Paid Work Experience
26 - Completed Paid Work Experience Worksite-1st Quick Check
Worksite-Traditions 24- Participating Worksites Convenience Store
Senior Living
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for
PAGE 6CAREER EXPLORATION
CAREERS IN TEXAS
High school junior and seniors were able to explore growing
careers in Texas Industry Clusters and understand in-demand
occupations through networking with industry professionals
and internship opportunities.
Sherman Denison
Honey Grove S&S
Pottsboro Whitesboro
129 Students
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Thank you Grayson to p r to
lan o ea
College for organizing for rly
and hosting this event! a ca
reer
PAGE 7COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
JOB FAIRS HIRING EVENTS
Career Connection In-Person: 111
Employers 54 Virtual: 8
Job Seekers 211 Job Postings: 119
Veteran Job Seekers 29 Job Openings: 1775
Student Job Seekers 21 Job Seekers: 990
Employers: 250
Back to Work
Employers 40
Job Seekers 125
Veteran Job Seekers 10
Student Job Seekers 8
BUSINESS EDUCATION FOR TEACHERS
We would like to recognize and
thank our participating companies:
Clayton Homes
Denison Industries
Emerson Process Management/Fisher Controls
4R Coating
Grayson County
PTF Insulation Fabricators
Workforce Solutions Texoma, in partnership
Orteq Energy Technologies
with several economic development and school
Renlita Custom Openings
district partners, again sponsored Business
Education for Teachers. Trident Process Systems
Tongrun
Teachers and Counselors experienced a week Safran
31 TEACHERS & COUNSELORS
long externship where they toured area
workforce centers and local industries. The DENISON SHERMAN
program provided information on skills needed BONHAM S&S
in the Workforce and the opportunities
available in the three-county area. Whitesboro
PAGE 8STUDENT HIREABILITY NAVIGATOR
a ce ns
The Student HireAbility Navigator serves as a resource in kpl atio
the Texoma area to support, expand, and enhance the or od
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provision of pre-employment services to students with
omm 56%
disabilities who are in the early stages of preparing for c
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cost nothing,
transition to postsecondary education and employment. while others have
a onetime cost of
$500 or less
Capacity Building & Better Company
Systems Development Morale
Increases Overall
Company
Partnering and
Productivity
Collaboration Retain Valuable
Employees
Informing and Eliminates Cost
of Retraining
Engaging Employers Employees
CAREER AND EDUCATION OUTREACH SPECIALIST
Career and Education Outreach Specialists work with middle and high school students. They
ensure students have exposure to information and resources in order to make informed
career decisions. This empowers students to gain certifications and graduate with
marketable skills. This is Texoma's first year for this initiative.
-Students
-Counselors -Presentations
-Teachers -In-service Sessions
-Administrators -Professional Development
Participating Schools
Whitesboro
S&S
Sherman
Denison
Pottsboro
Honey Grove
PAGE 9CHILD CARE SERVICES
Workforce Solutions Texoma Child Care Services (CCS) strengthens families and
communities by offering child care assistance to help low-income parents pay for
child care so they can go to work or attend educational or vocational programs.
During COVID-19, Workforce Solutions Texoma also supported child care through
Quality activities and additional CARES Act Funding payments.
Child Care by The Numbers Professional Development
October 2020-September 2021
Received Training: 287 Staff and Directors
Children - 1 ,630 Families - 937
Topics: minimum standards
sensory play
new trs guidelines
Early Childhood literacy
Cooke 303 Cooke 175
Fannin 176 Fannin 91
Grayson 1,151 Grayson 671
Undiplicated numbers/all funding streams
Quality Grant Funds Awarded to All Providers
Cleaning Supply Infant and Toddler Child Development
$5,981.56 $26,599.25 Scholarships
19 Providers 24 Providers
$34,625.58
General Quality Playground Equipment 20 students
$63,337.91 $6,406.81
27 Providers 14 Providers
“Thank you, this Grant was very much appreciated. Texas Rising Star Providers (TRS)
The children love learning and playing on the new
items we were able to purchase.”
Dustie Jones 13
Tiny Trails Child Care Center 12 TRS Providers 1
4-Star 3-Star
“This is soooooooo awesome, Julie! TRS Providers voluntarily exceed
I honestly could not have successfully started minimum standards and have achieved
paying back the loan for this new school
state accreditation for their program.
without all the help I’ve received from
Workforce Solutions! Thanks a MILLION!!!!”
Kitie Hermes
2
Lil' Leopards Learning Ladder Pursuing
TRS Accreditation
PAGE 10CHILD CARE SERVICES
QUALITY PROJECTS
STEM CREATE A BOOK
1st YEAR - SCIENCE Classrooms 5th YEAR
Received
Ages 3-5 - Classroom Experiment-Magnetism $200 Incentive
Each
Participants Classroom
42 Classes Received a
593 Children Science Kit! Children Received
Ages 3-5
Participants Reading Bag
4 Books
Ages 6-10 - Individual Experiment-Fingerprinting 35 Classes
Sight Word Journal
451 Children
Each Child Chalkboard/Chalk
Participants
Received a Sticker Scene
73 Children Science Bag! Activity
WRITE ON! FINANCIAL LITERACY
2nd YEAR 3rd YEAR
Participants
Three stories from Participants
each age range Ages 6-9 & 10-12 Children
20 Classes
were recognized 77 Children conducted
and honored in a chores at their 267 Children
local newspaper! child care facility
to earn their
s participation
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p i
ici
incentive!
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Pa a pp
l d Su
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ce nd
Re g a Providers received
Ba Literacy training
on Business
Management
Topics.
PAGE 11CELEBRATE SUCCESS
“The staff was knowledgeable,
helpful and kind. They gave me the “Sta
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assistance and support I needed to enco f was ve
e r i ence urag ry h
p ing elp
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“Workforce made it possible for me
to earn my RN degree and I now
work at my dream job in the ICU at
TMC.”
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WIOA-Adult
Currently Employed as an RN
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wa cessin
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PAGE 12PERFORMANCE
Board Contract Year 21 performance measures were greatly
impacted by COVID-19 employment restrictions that were
implemented beginning February 2020.
TOTAL PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS SERVED
3,745
Claimants Obtaining ADULT/DISLOCATED
WORKER IN
Total
Employment Within
TRAINING Claimants
10 weeks of Receiving
51 2,609
Unemployment
Increase of REEMPLOYMENT
1,307 66.31% over same SERVICES AND
period last year. ELIGIBILITY
ASSESSMENT
398
Total Average Children
Served Per Day
Veterans 952 Exceeded Total
190 Measure at Youth
114.29%
of Target 47
Reemployment and Employer Engagement
Employers
Claimant
Receiving MET OR EXCEEDED
Reemployment
Workforce
Within 10 Weeks 15 OF 18
Assistance
1,307
1,563 CONTRACTED
Exceeded at Exceeded at MEASURES
105.40% 128.88%
of Target of Target
PAGE 13Board Members
Dee Lough, Chair Mark Anderson, 1st Vice Chair
Travel Partners of North Texas Fisher Controls//Emerson
Kathryn Hicks, 2nd Vice Chair Mike DeLong, Treasurer
Koch Sales Young Enterprises
Janet Ventura, Secretary Candy VanSant, Past Chair
Celebrations Senior Living Community Texoma Medical Center
Alvin Bailey Janet Gott
Child Care Committee Chair Board Development Committee Chair
Grayson College Library Grayson College CWL
Star Brock Tongrun International
Daniel Clark Texas Workforce Solutions-VR
Judy Dossey Voluntary Purchasing Groups, INC
Brad Douglass Douglass Distributing Company
Amy Doyle McGraw Oil/Kwik Chek Stores
Debbie Eldredge Sherman Housing Authority
Mark Ewig CWA Union
Callena Fitzpatrick Jack and Jill Daycare
Rebeckah Flanagan Flanagan's Outdoor Power & Equipment
Djuna Forrester Grayson College Center for Workplace Learning
Frank Gadek Child and Family Guidance Center
Obie Greenleaf NAACP
Debbie Huffman North Central Texas College
Jeremy McMillen Grayson College
Carlos Medina Trans Cable USA
Todd Morrison Honey Grove ISD
Dillon Ott ORTEQ Energy Technologies
Rhani Phillips Ruiz Foods
Crystal Sanders TWC -Integrated Service Area Manager
Audrey Schroyer Gainesville Economic Development Corporation
Stefanie Webb Tyson
PAGE 14CELEBRATING THE PAST
2003 BOARD STAFF 1998-1999
1996-1998
BOARD STAFF 2005 1998-2001 SHERMAN WORKFORCE CENTER 1998
2001-2007
2003
BOARD MEMBERS 2000-2001
2013-Current
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