Members do not have access to edit the three-year plan. Only the Primary Consortium Contact has editing abilities.

We created a Word template of the plan for leads to give to their members, collect that data and input it for them. It is available on our website under the Administrator tab, three-year plan section.

The Three-Year Plan is set up in sections. You can work in sections, click next, skip a section, go to another and work, etc. It is always a good practice to have the answers in another format that can be copied and pasted into the template. This will ensure no data is lost.

There is a print/email option. Most printers give you the option to "print" to PDF. An email went out to all consortia leads and it included the steps below.

To print/email a PDF:
1. Print landscape with custom scale at 90%
or
2. Print portrait with custom scale to 70%

You can choose all of them if you wish. First, you select one and click to add. It will be added under the drop-down menu. Then you can go back to the drop-down menu and select another, etc. It's one at a time, but you can choose as many as you want.

Primary contacts are the only individuals who are able to enter 3 Year Plan information. A suggestion would be have the members input their information into the template and then you or another primary contact enter the data in NOVA.

There have been no updates to the self-assessment in preparation for this three-year plan cycle. We've included a direct link to it and the self-assessment can also be found on the CAEP website.
https://caladulted.org/DownloadFile/656

Short-term CTE are certificate courses that learners are able to accomplish and enter into the workforce quickly and/or upskill for higher wage-earning potential. Whereas, CTE (longe- term) are a schedule of courses to earning an Associate's degree.

Below are additional resources found on our website.

What California Adult Education Provides
Career Technical Education — a variety of career training programs that deliver customized curriculum needed to meet the diverse training and development needs of businesses, promote a skilled workforce with high growth and high wage employment potential, leading to industry certifications or meeting the required prerequisites and foundations for advanced career pathways.

WestEd (2017) Adult Ed Block Grant (Page 6. -7.)
Short-Term CTE Short-term CTE is not a standardized concept, and what constitutes short-term depends a on both the system using it and the populations they are trying to serve. In a general sense, CTE programs provide occupationally specific or non-occupational education that prepares students for the workforce at the secondary, post-secondary, or adult education levels.

The guidance from the TYP at the top of NOVA is a reminder of the intent with Objectives and Activities. I relate objectives as the overarching goal and the activities are the strategies/actions that will move toward the objective. It will be more digestible to narrow down the strategies listed under objectives so when you move to the next step in the workflow, the narrative is concise and targeted.

Objectives Guidance:
There are three core Objectives defined in Ed. Code: (1) address educational needs, (2) improve integration of services and transitions, and (3) improve effectiveness of services.
In this Objectives section, you will describe strategies that the members of the consortium and others impacted by or interested in the provision of education and workforce services to adults in the region, will take to achieve the objectives.
These strategies should be at a high level. In the next section of the workflow for Activities and Outcomes, you will define specific tactical activities you will take to achieve the strategies for these Outcomes.

Activities & Outcomes
Create a plan to implement the strategies named in the Objectives section of this workflow by defining the activities to execute them and intended short-term, intermediate, and long-term outcomes. Activities may be proposed at the consortium or the individual member level. Definition of long-term outcomes beyond three years is optional, as this is outside of the scope of the Three-Year plan but may be helpful for consortium planning.
Use the + Add Activity button at the bottom of the page to add each activity proposed by the consortium to address the three Objectives in the Objectives section of this workflow. For each activity, type in the activity name, then select the Objective that applies to the activity from the dropdown menu.

Instructional hours are used to measure service levels based on CAEP definitions:

• Reportable individuals receive 1–11 hours of instruction or services. - Participants receive 12+ instructional contact hours in one of the six CAEP program areas.

While enrollment data is useful for understanding demand, instructional hours reflect the level of engagement and intensity of services, which is key for evaluating service effectiveness.

The Three-Year Plan will be available in NOVA and access to be opened once the preliminary allocations and the CFAD have been certified.