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§ 3223. Technical assistance
(a) General technical assistance
(1) In general
The Secretary shall ensure that the Department has sufficient capacity to, and does, provide, coordinate, and support the development of, appropriate training, technical assistance, staff development, and other activities, including—
(A) assistance in replicating programs of demonstrated effectiveness, to States and localities;
(B) the training of staff providing rapid response services;
(C) the training of other staff of recipients of funds under this subchapter, including the staff of local boards and State boards;
(D) the training of members of State boards and local boards;
(E) assistance in the development and implementation of integrated, technology-enabled intake and case management information systems for programs carried out under this Act and programs carried out by one-stop partners, such as standard sets of technical requirements for the systems, offering interfaces that States could use in conjunction with their current (as of the first date of implementation of the systems) intake and case management information systems that would facilitate shared registration across programs;
(F) assistance regarding accounting and program operations to States and localities (when such assistance would not supplant assistance provided by the State);
(G) peer review activities under this subchapter; and
(H) in particular, assistance to States in making transitions to implement the provisions of this Act.
(2) Form of assistance
(A) In general
(B) Limitation
(b) Dislocated worker technical assistance
(1) Authority
(2) Training
(c) Promising and proven practices coordination
The Secretary shall—
(1) establish a system through which States may share information regarding promising and proven practices with regard to the operation of workforce investment activities under this Act;
(2) evaluate and disseminate information regarding such promising and proven practices and identify knowledge gaps; and
(3) commission research under section 3224(b) of this title to address knowledge gaps identified under paragraph (2).
(Pub. L. 113–128, title I, § 168, July 22, 2014, 128 Stat. 1566.)