History of Iowa's Local Workforce Areas (Archived Information)
Iowa’s State Workforce Development Board (SWDB) oversees the development and implementation of the state workforce development plan. The SWDB ensures that state workforce areas have the resources to support employment programs across the state.
Under the U.S. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), local workforce development areas are the starting point for making policy decisions about which workforce programming and resources would be prioritized in a particular area. Local areas are made up of the chief elected officials in each region. However, the boundaries of these regions have changed over time.
On July 1, 2020, Iowa combined 15 regions into nine Local Workforce Development Areas.
On July 1, 2023, those nine LWDAs were reorganized again into the current six local areas.
Finding Official Information
Meeting minutes, agendas, and other documents from the current six local areas can be found on each area’s individual website.
To review similar documents from previous areas, start by locating the predecessor organization's name/number on one or both of these two maps.
Local Workforce Development Areas (9) - July 1, 2020 to July 1, 2023
Local Workforce Development Areas (15) - before July 2020
Archive
When you have identified the relevant board(s), search for documents using the pull-down menus on this archive .