PART I. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE

 

§373C-1  Findings.  The legislaturefinds that there is a need to coordinate the efforts of a variety ofemployment-related agencies, programs, and activities, for the purpose ofstrengthening employment, training, and educational planning and delivery ofservices.  Promoting this coordination can be achieved best through thedevelopment of an occupational and career information planning base.  A Hawaiioccupational information system could meet the common needs of vocationaleducation programs and employment and training programs if it contained data onoccupational demand and supply based on uniform definitions, standardizedestimating procedures, and common classification codes.  This occupationalinformation must be geared to the career decision-making process of youth, aswell as to the administrative needs of educational and training planning.  Thedelivery of career information is needed to improve the match of youth careerdesires with available and anticipated labor demand. [L 1983, c 193, pt of §1;am L 2001, c 171, §1]