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Mother Lode Job Training Water Resource Management Training Program

ACCELERATOR3.0 Executive Summary

BACKGROUND

The project embraces the notion that, to rapidly meet increasing demands for workers within all sub-sectors and at all levels of the hospitality industry, businesses must be able to effectively outreach to, hire and retain a diverse pool of workers with a wide range of backgrounds.

Hospitality Industry Training and Education Fund Expanding the Hospitality Industry Pipeline for Under-Resourced Populations

THE BIG IDEA Hospitality jobs have long provided opportunities for low-income individuals to enter the labor market. As such, in Los Angeles and other locales, the industry is dominated by immigrants from Mexico and Central America. As job opportunities now abound for immigrants in many sectors and the local hospitality industry prepares for explosive growth, the demand for talent will be greater than ever. The HTA and our team seek to improve the industry’s recruitment and hiring strategies.

• Under the pilot, recruit, train and refer for employment at UNITE HERE Local 11-represented businesses

• Serve 40 low-income and long-term unemployed African-Americans.

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Long-term Unemployed • Low Income Worker

BACKGROUND

The Mother Lode Workforce Development Board, in conjunction with local partners will collaborate to develop the training of a pipeline of certified workers to fulfill an upcoming shortage of qualified workers within the water industry.

THE BIG IDEA

Facilitate a new generation of water workers for California’s future. The Water Resource Management Training Program will bridge employment needs with a cradle to grave philosophy. The water industry is dramatically changing before our eyes. The future of water management is becoming holistic in nature. Moving into an integrated mode where water recycling, toilet to tap and watershed management are all strategically linked. The approach is the future of California.

GOALS • Job Placement • Credential Attainment • Wage Increase • Skills Attainment • Certificate Of Achievement

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Long-term Unemployed • Low Income Worker • Disconnected Youth • CalWORKs Participants

Mother Lode Job Training Water Resource Management Training Program

BACKGROUND

The project embraces the notion that, to rapidly meet increasing demands for workers within all sub-sectors and at all levels of the hospitality industry, businesses must be able to effectively outreach to, hire and retain a diverse pool of workers with a wide range of backgrounds.

Hospitality Industry Training and Education Fund Expanding the Hospitality Industry Pipeline for Under-Resourced Populations

THE BIG IDEA Hospitality jobs have long provided opportunities for low-income individuals to enter the labor market. As such, in Los Angeles and other locales, the industry is dominated by immigrants from Mexico and Central America. As job opportunities now abound for immigrants in many sectors and the local hospitality industry prepares for explosive growth, the demand for talent will be greater than ever. The HTA and our team seek to improve the industry’s recruitment and hiring strategies.

• Under the pilot, recruit, train and refer for employment at UNITE HERE Local 11-represented businesses

• Serve 40 low-income and long-term unemployed African-Americans.

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Long-term Unemployed • Low Income Worker

BACKGROUND

The Mother Lode Workforce Development Board, in conjunction with local partners will collaborate to develop the training of a pipeline of certified workers to fulfill an upcoming shortage of qualified workers within the water industry.

THE BIG IDEA

Facilitate a new generation of water workers for California’s future. The Water Resource Management Training Program will bridge employment needs with a cradle to grave philosophy. The water industry is dramatically changing before our eyes. The future of water management is becoming holistic in nature. Moving into an integrated mode where water recycling, toilet to tap and watershed management are all strategically linked. The approach is the future of California.

GOALS • Job Placement • Credential Attainment • Wage Increase • Skills Attainment • Certificate Of Achievement

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Long-term Unemployed • Low Income Worker • Disconnected Youth • CalWORKs Participants

Community of Practice- Supply and Demand Project Workforce Development Board of Solano County

BACKGROUND

The Level Careers project innovation is to use virtual media as a new tool for Veterans to have in their job seekers’ toolbox. This enhances their connection with employers by showcasing veterans to be both skilled and personable in a virtual resume. The project will work with video production specialists to learn to produce this style of virtual resume using our own equipment and to take this project to other service populations.

JVS Los Angeles Next Level Careers

THE BIG IDEA Veterans learn how to present themselves and discuss their military experience and career goals using video technology to create a virtual resume to present to employers. These virtual resumes show each veteran to be highly skilled, competent and personable. The skills veterans learn while creating this video are an important skill to have in their job seeker’s toolbox, as video interviews and video conferencing have become a regular part of conducting business in today’s workplace.

• Placement • Credential attainment • Wage increase • 70% of program participants will be placed in employment

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Returning Veterans

BACKGROUND

The Community of Practice- Supply and Demand Project will address both the supply versus demand equation to simultaneously improve the employability of today’s unemployed, while zeroing in on real time data directly provided by local/regional employers.

THE BIG IDEA

First, address real-world jobseeker needs in the current economy, with heightened service integration. Second, improve employer engagement efforts with real-time labor demand information, thus allowing local service providers to better target their efforts for their jobseeker customers and policy-makers to perform at their best.

GOALS • Improved selection of path ways for jobseekers • Better assessment tools/approaches • Improved job readiness • Creation of a community broadcast system for real-world

employer demand information

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Long-term Unemployed • Low Income Worker • Disconnected Youth • CalWORKs Participants • Ex-Offenders • Individuals with Disabilities • Returning Veterans

Community of Practice- Supply and Demand Project Workforce Development Board of Solano County

BACKGROUND

The Level Careers project innovation is to use virtual media as a new tool for Veterans to have in their job seekers’ toolbox. This enhances their connection with employers by showcasing veterans to be both skilled and personable in a virtual resume. The project will work with video production specialists to learn to produce this style of virtual resume using our own equipment and to take this project to other service populations.

JVS Los Angeles Next Level Careers

THE BIG IDEA Veterans learn how to present themselves and discuss their military experience and career goals using video technology to create a virtual resume to present to employers. These virtual resumes show each veteran to be highly skilled, competent and personable. The skills veterans learn while creating this video are an important skill to have in their job seeker’s toolbox, as video interviews and video conferencing have become a regular part of conducting business in today’s workplace.

TARGET POPULATIONS

BACKGROUND

The Community of Practice- Supply and Demand Project will address both the supply versus demand equation to simultaneously improve the employability of today’s unemployed, while zeroing in on real time data directly provided by local/regional employers.

THE BIG IDEA

First, address real-world jobseeker needs in the current economy, with heightened service integration. Second, improve employer engagement efforts with real-time labor demand information, thus allowing local service providers to better target their efforts for their jobseeker customers and policy-makers to perform at their best.

GOALS • Improved selection of path ways for jobseekers • Better assessment tools/approaches • Improved job readiness • Creation of a community broadcast system for real-world

employer demand information

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Long-term Unemployed • Low Income Worker • Disconnected Youth • CalWORKs Participants • Ex-Offenders • Individuals with Disabilities • Returning Veterans

MERISTEM INC. A Disability Vocational Training Demonstration Project: Innovation, Collaboration, and System Change

• CalWORKs Participants • Ex-Offenders • Long Term Unemployed • Low-Income Workers • Returning Veterans

BACKGROUND

The primary innovation of the project is the offering of hands-on instructional opportunities for both experienced contractors and recent construction training graduates that not be available through any other source. The courses will be taught by experienced contractors, contract and procurement staff from anchor institutions, and by other financial, legal and business experts, and will be designed to provide very practical information that participants can use immediately in their own businesses.

Richmond Workforce Development Board RichmondBUILD Contractors Resource Center (RBCRC)

THE BIG IDEA

To invest in capacity building for local businesses in order to create a multiplier effect, increasing the income of these businesses, along with their need for additional employees.

• Increased sense of family well being • Increase job trainee program completion and job placement

rates • Placement • Credential Attainment • Wage Increase

TARGET POPULATIONS

BACKGROUND

Meristem’s flagship Sacramento campus has the potential to serve as a prototype that can be replicated by many centers throughout the state. The project tests scalable curricula, funding models, and methods for community integration and innovative social enterprises. Meristem is committed to serve as a thought leader in the industry by disseminating research, best practices, and innovative program development serving those with disabilities.

THE BIG IDEA To establish a Demonstration Project by field testing Ruskin Mill Trust (RMT) proven methodology through a pilot project at the flagship campus in Sacramento. The project validates the RMT model as a therapeutic-disability workforce method, braids a sustainable and scalable funding model and incubates and tests novel social enterprises in integrated communities. It provides proof of concept to substantiate a new innovative model for system delivery and funding alignment for advancing labor force participation of individuals with disabilities. Upon validation, the model will have the potential to be replicated across the state and tailored to regional needs.

GOALS • Build practical skills • Build communication and

socials skills • Academic development • Managing health and well being

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Disconnected Youth • Individuals with Disabilities

• Living skills and self-care • Fostering relationship • Work readiness • Encourage social responsibility

MERISTEM INC. A Disability Vocational Training Demonstration Project: Innovation, Collaboration, and System Change

• CalWORKs Participants • Ex-Offenders • Long Term Unemployed • Low-Income Workers • Returning Veterans

BACKGROUND

The primary innovation of the project is the offering of hands-on instructional opportunities for both experienced contractors and recent construction training graduates that not be available through any other source. The courses will be taught by experienced contractors, contract and procurement staff from anchor institutions, and by other financial, legal and business experts, and will be designed to provide very practical information that participants can use immediately in their own businesses.

Richmond Workforce Development Board RichmondBUILD Contractors Resource Center (RBCRC)

THE BIG IDEA

To invest in capacity building for local businesses in order to create a multiplier effect, increasing the income of these businesses, along with their need for additional employees.

• Increased sense of family well being • Increase job trainee program completion and job placement

rates • Placement • Credential Attainment • Wage Increase

TARGET POPULATIONS

BACKGROUND

Meristem’s flagship Sacramento campus has the potential to serve as a prototype that can be replicated by many centers throughout the state. The project tests scalable curricula, funding models, and methods for community integration and innovative social enterprises. Meristem is committed to serve as a thought leader in the industry by disseminating research, best practices, and innovative program development serving those with disabilities.

THE BIG IDEA To establish a Demonstration Project by field testing Ruskin Mill Trust (RMT) proven methodology through a pilot project at the flagship campus in Sacramento. The project validates the RMT model as a therapeutic-disability workforce method, braids a sustainable and scalable funding model and incubates and tests novel social enterprises in integrated communities. It provides proof of concept to substantiate a new innovative model for system delivery and funding alignment for advancing labor force participation of individuals with disabilities. Upon validation, the model will have the potential to be replicated across the state and tailored to regional needs.

GOALS • Build practical skills • Build communication and

socials skills • Academic development • Managing health and well being

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Disconnected Youth • Individuals with Disabilities

• Living skills and self-care • Fostering relationship • Work readiness • Encourage social responsibility

Los Angeles Valley College Strengthening Working Families

BACKGROUND

The innovative aspect of this project is using technology and a very strategic approach with employers to engage them with the education system on a scale never before seen in the US. Furthermore, this model has the research behind it to verify its effectiveness on the youth who participate. The Inspiring the Future Pilot anticipates learning how to best adapt this model to a US context.

Marin County Workforce Development Board Inspiring the Future Pilot

THE BIG IDEA

To remove the transaction costs for volunteers and teachers, thereby allowing the workforce system to bring employer engagement to a scale never before seen in the US. The pilot also reviews how other similar projects globally are approaching this effort and shares best practices that may arise.

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Disconnected Youth

BACKGROUND

The LAVC Family Resource Center is the only one of its kind on a community college campus in California and has served student parents as they work toward their academic and career goals. This innovative project will expand FRC services to include workforce training participants. Linking the two will increase the recruitment pool for job training programs and add a new layer of support services for workforce training participants to increase completion and placement rates.

THE BIG IDEA

The Strengthening Working Families training participants receive holistic services through a 2gen framework, learn the skills needed to build their own community of support, and receive mental health counseling to help them in the transition from unemployment.

GOALS • Increased sense of family well being

• Increase job trainee program completion and job placement rates

• Placement • Credential Attainment • Wage Increase

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Long-term Unemployed • Low Income Worker • CalWORKs Participants • Ex-Offenders • Returning Veterans

Los Angeles Valley College Strengthening Working Families

BACKGROUND

The innovative aspect of this project is using technology and a very strategic approach with employers to engage them with the education system on a scale never before seen in the US. Furthermore, this model has the research behind it to verify its effectiveness on the youth who participate. The Inspiring the Future Pilot anticipates learning how to best adapt this model to a US context.

Marin County Workforce Development Board Inspiring the Future Pilot

THE BIG IDEA

To remove the transaction costs for volunteers and teachers, thereby allowing the workforce system to bring employer engagement to a scale never before seen in the US. The pilot also reviews how other similar projects globally are approaching this effort and shares best practices that may arise.

TARGET POPULATIONS

BACKGROUND

The LAVC Family Resource Center is the only one of its kind on a community college campus in California and has served student parents as they work toward their academic and career goals. This innovative project will expand FRC services to include workforce training participants. Linking the two will increase the recruitment pool for job training programs and add a new layer of support services for workforce training participants to increase completion and placement rates.

THE BIG IDEA

The Strengthening Working Families training participants receive holistic services through a 2gen framework, learn the skills needed to build their own community of support, and receive mental health counseling to help them in the transition from unemployment.

GOALS • Increased sense of family well being

• Increase job trainee program completion and job placement rates

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Long-term Unemployed • Low Income Worker • CalWORKs Participants • Ex-Offenders • Returning Veterans

South Bay Workforce Investment, Inc. Aerospace Engineering Apprenticeship Program (AEAP)

BACKGROUND

This program combines elements that have made OJ’s other programs so successful, including a focus on relationships, a positive and professional environment, support that includes mental health, and participant input into program design. Customer feedback and Expert input ensures that the program is culturally competent.

Opportunity Junction College and Career Concierge

THE BIG IDEA

Give disconnected and foster youth aged 18-24 a college and career concierge: a knowledgeable, caring guide to college resources and career development, housed in a welcoming office with free hot lunch, coffee, and computer and Internet access. Includes services to address the special needs of foster youth. Aligns funding streams so that CBO-housed programs like this one can be sustained with the help of WIOA funding.

• Determine which program elements are desired and utilized by disconnected and foster youth.

TARGET POPULATIONS

BACKGROUND

One of the innovations of this project is its unique focus on aerospace engineering occupations, which generally require a 4 year degree and are not often considered appropriate for the apprenticeship model. Northrop Grumman and other local aerospace manufacturers in the region have developed learning-rich internship programs through which hundreds of software, systems, electrical and mechanical engineers have been trained and hired.

THE BIG IDEA

The big idea is to develop the region’s first Aerospace Engineering Apprenticeship Program to create a career pathway through pre-apprenticeship. As a proven earn and learn model, apprenticeship will open a pathway for the target veteran disconnected young adult populations, many of whom have completed related college courses, to complete education and earn requisite degrees/credentials as productive aerospace employees.

GOALS • Placement

• Credential Attainment • Wage Increase

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Disconnected Youth • Returning Veterans

South Bay Workforce Investment, Inc. Aerospace Engineering Apprenticeship Program (AEAP)

BACKGROUND

This program combines elements that have made OJ’s other programs so successful, including a focus on relationships, a positive and professional environment, support that includes mental health, and participant input into program design. Customer feedback and Expert input ensures that the program is culturally competent.

Opportunity Junction College and Career Concierge

THE BIG IDEA

Give disconnected and foster youth aged 18-24 a college and career concierge: a knowledgeable, caring guide to college resources and career development, housed in a welcoming office with free hot lunch, coffee, and computer and Internet access. Includes services to address the special needs of foster youth. Aligns funding streams so that CBO-housed programs like this one can be sustained with the help of WIOA funding.

• Determine which program elements are desired and utilized by disconnected and foster youth.

TARGET POPULATIONS

BACKGROUND

One of the innovations of this project is its unique focus on aerospace engineering occupations, which generally require a 4 year degree and are not often considered appropriate for the apprenticeship model. Northrop Grumman and other local aerospace manufacturers in the region have developed learning-rich internship programs through which hundreds of software, systems, electrical and mechanical engineers have been trained and hired.

THE BIG IDEA

The big idea is to develop the region’s first Aerospace Engineering Apprenticeship Program to create a career pathway through pre-apprenticeship. As a proven earn and learn model, apprenticeship will open a pathway for the target veteran disconnected young adult populations, many of whom have completed related college courses, to complete education and earn requisite degrees/credentials as productive aerospace employees.

GOALS • Placement

• Credential Attainment • Wage Increase

TARGET POPULATIONS

Automotive Industry Apprenticeship Trust Fund (AIATF) AMTAC Veterans Youth Initiative

BACKGROUND

This project is the first of its kind as it approaches the goal from all sides of the equation – partnership with the restaurant industry through the California Restaurant Association; education of employers in HR laws and practices, including sensitivity training and the “business case for inclusion”; and connection to job seekers and follow up mentorship.

The TransLatin@ Coalition California Trans Work Place Project (CTWP)

THE BIG IDEA To provide structural change in the restaurant employment industry by approaching the goals from all sides of the equation – partnership with industry, education, connection to job seekers and follow up mentorship.

• Train 1,000 restaurants in collaboration with the California Restaurant Association

• Have one hundred transgender individuals employed throughout California

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Ex-Offenders • Long term Unemployed • Low-Income

BACKGROUND

AMTAC will have standards for multiple job classifications in every California county that has a community college that provides a supporting curriculum. To take advantage of the program, an employer need only sign an agreement to train; the employer can then start hiring apprentices. The initiative is also innovative in using community-based organizations to help identify, inform and recruit potential apprentices.

THE BIG IDEA

Create a statewide association of apprenticeship committees to develop apprenticeship standards for specific job classifications and recruit colleges to provide educational programs meeting those standards throughout California. At the same time, AMTAC works with employers to provide apprenticeship opportunities and partners with existing community-based organizations to reach the pool of potential apprentices. This initiative will begin in the Bay Area and then expand to the rest of the state. With the standards created and college programs in place, any employer, union or non-union, will be able to sign an agreement to train and begin obtaining apprentices immediately.

TARGET POPULATIONS

Automotive Industry Apprenticeship Trust Fund (AIATF) AMTAC Veterans Youth Initiative

BACKGROUND

This project is the first of its kind as it approaches the goal from all sides of the equation – partnership with the restaurant industry through the California Restaurant Association; education of employers in HR laws and practices, including sensitivity training and the “business case for inclusion”; and connection to job seekers and follow up mentorship.

The TransLatin@ Coalition California Trans Work Place Project (CTWP)

THE BIG IDEA To provide structural change in the restaurant employment industry by approaching the goals from all sides of the equation – partnership with industry, education, connection to job seekers and follow up mentorship.

• Train 1,000 restaurants in collaboration with the California Restaurant Association

• Have one hundred transgender individuals employed throughout California

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Ex-Offenders • Long term Unemployed • Low-Income

BACKGROUND

AMTAC will have standards for multiple job classifications in every California county that has a community college that provides a supporting curriculum. To take advantage of the program, an employer need only sign an agreement to train; the employer can then start hiring apprentices. The initiative is also innovative in using community-based organizations to help identify, inform and recruit potential apprentices.

THE BIG IDEA

Create a statewide association of apprenticeship committees to develop apprenticeship standards for specific job classifications and recruit colleges to provide educational programs meeting those standards throughout California. At the same time, AMTAC works with employers to provide apprenticeship opportunities and partners with existing community-based organizations to reach the pool of potential apprentices. This initiative will begin in the Bay Area and then expand to the rest of the state. With the standards created and college programs in place, any employer, union or non-union, will be able to sign an agreement to train and begin obtaining apprentices immediately.

TARGET POPULATIONS

San Diego Workforce Partnership Veterans Individual Placement and Support Project (VIPS Project)

BACKGROUND

The C-Map project is innovative because it is buttressed by a three-way partnership. Workforce system expert NOVA can provide insight into applying best practices from this pilot into broader system implementation. UpGlo is nationally renowned for effectively placing immigrant professionals and can also shine a light on the sizeable LEP population in California, designated for priority of service within WIOA.

Upwardly Global Career Mapping Initiative (C-Map)

THE BIG IDEA Prototype a best-in-class private sector career mapping tool for use in the public workforce system to accurately assess job seekers’ competitiveness for in-demand roles, address skill gaps, and increase employment opportunities. C-Map accelerates recognition of existing skills as well as job matches. It mitigates skill gaps as a barrier to employment by early identification and referrals to appropriate training programs. GOALS

• Increased employment in technology and engineering occupations for “treatment” group

• Successful completion of upskilling programs that position “treatment” group for subsequent hire.

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Long term Unemployed • Low-Income Workers

BACKGROUND

The primary innovation of this project is that it bridges the gap between job centers and veterans services in San Diego County by bringing the workforce services to veterans. Requiring AJCC customers to access the workforce development system on their own reduces the likelihood that they will enroll in or complete services due to a lack of awareness about the system and its programs, the cost and time of travel, and conflicting scheduling with other needed services (e.g. counseling).

THE BIG IDEA

Create cross-system service alignment between the workforce development and veterans services systems by co-locating IPS supported employment services on Camp Pendleton and in the community along with other veteran support services such as housing, behavioral/mental health, social connections, and general basic needs. The IPS model of supported employment uses an integrated approach to help people obtain and maintain community-based competitive employment in their chosen occupation.

• Rate of veterans placed in competitive employment during the grant cycle

• Rate of veterans placed in a job during the grant cycle

TARGET POPULATIONS

San Diego Workforce Partnership Veterans Individual Placement and Support Project (VIPS Project)

BACKGROUND

The C-Map project is innovative because it is buttressed by a three-way partnership. Workforce system expert NOVA can provide insight into applying best practices from this pilot into broader system implementation. UpGlo is nationally renowned for effectively placing immigrant professionals and can also shine a light on the sizeable LEP population in California, designated for priority of service within WIOA.

Upwardly Global Career Mapping Initiative (C-Map)

THE BIG IDEA Prototype a best-in-class private sector career mapping tool for use in the public workforce system to accurately assess job seekers’ competitiveness for in-demand roles, address skill gaps, and increase employment opportunities. C-Map accelerates recognition of existing skills as well as job matches. It mitigates skill gaps as a barrier to employment by early identification and referrals to appropriate training programs. GOALS

• Increased employment in technology and engineering occupations for “treatment” group

• Successful completion of upskilling programs that position “treatment” group for subsequent hire.

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Long term Unemployed • Low-Income Workers

BACKGROUND

The primary innovation of this project is that it bridges the gap between job centers and veterans services in San Diego County by bringing the workforce services to veterans. Requiring AJCC customers to access the workforce development system on their own reduces the likelihood that they will enroll in or complete services due to a lack of awareness about the system and its programs, the cost and time of travel, and conflicting scheduling with other needed services (e.g. counseling).

THE BIG IDEA

Create cross-system service alignment between the workforce development and veterans services systems by co-locating IPS supported employment services on Camp Pendleton and in the community along with other veteran support services such as housing, behavioral/mental health, social connections, and general basic needs. The IPS model of supported employment uses an integrated approach to help people obtain and maintain community-based competitive employment in their chosen occupation.

• Rate of veterans placed in competitive employment during the grant cycle

• Rate of veterans placed in a job during the grant cycle

TARGET POPULATIONS

The Fresno Regional Workforce Development Board (FRWDB) The Job Placement Accelerator Pilot (JPAP)

BACKGROUND

This project brings together the innovative utilities consortium BAYWORK, the only regional organization of its kind focused on the shared interests and needs of utilities, and JVS, a high capacity workforce development organization and workforce intermediary, which possess extensive experience in developing strong sector strategies, working with multiple employers and partnering closely with training providers.

Jewish Vocational Service JVS & BAYWORK

THE BIG IDEA Create a data-driven regional map outlining both the hiring needs and effective vocational training programs in mission critical, skilled-trades careers in the water and wastewater industry, and build more effective and transparent pipelines to meet workforce needs while increasing access to family-sustaining career opportunities for job seekers without a four year degree.

• Identification of top, high need job classifications by sub-region/utility.

• Credential Attainment • Placement

TARGET POPULATIONS

• CalWORKs • Disconnected Youth • Low-Income Workers

BACKGROUND

This pilot project will be one of the first tests nation-wide of the emerging "active" internet job placement firms working with the public workforce system. These emerging firms use big data to identify appropriate jobs, regular text and e-mail contact with job seekers, daily “pushing out” of job leads.

THE BIG IDEA Test whether the newer internet job placement companies, especially

with their "big data" capacities, can add value and reduce costs to the public workforce system. As California's public workforce system is pressed to increase the number of placements, a partnership with these companies is worth testing further. These companies, in partnership with the WDBs, offers far more active placement services than the established, largely passive internet job boards. Placement services include contact among other features with job seekers several times a day, a constant pushing out of job leads, and constant monitoring of job search activities, with recommendations.

• Document virtual-technology driven job placement processes and analysis of target groups

• Track job retention for a minimum of 12-months

TARGET POPULATIONS

• CalWORKs Participants • Disconnected Youth

The Fresno Regional Workforce Development Board (FRWDB) The Job Placement Accelerator Pilot (JPAP)

BACKGROUND

This project brings together the innovative utilities consortium BAYWORK, the only regional organization of its kind focused on the shared interests and needs of utilities, and JVS, a high capacity workforce development organization and workforce intermediary, which possess extensive experience in developing strong sector strategies, working with multiple employers and partnering closely with training providers.

Jewish Vocational Service JVS & BAYWORK

• Identification of top, high need job classifications by sub-region/utility.

• Credential Attainment • Placement

TARGET POPULATIONS

• CalWORKs • Disconnected Youth • Low-Income Workers

BACKGROUND

This pilot project will be one of the first tests nation-wide of the emerging "active" internet job placement firms working with the public workforce system. These emerging firms use big data to identify appropriate jobs, regular text and e-mail contact with job seekers, daily “pushing out” of job leads.

THE BIG IDEA Test whether the newer internet job placement companies, especially

with their "big data" capacities, can add value and reduce costs to the public workforce system. As California's public workforce system is pressed to increase the number of placements, a partnership with these companies is worth testing further. These companies, in partnership with the WDBs, offers far more active placement services than the established, largely passive internet job boards. Placement services include contact among other features with job seekers several times a day, a constant pushing out of job leads, and constant monitoring of job search activities, with recommendations.

• Document virtual-technology driven job placement processes and analysis of target groups

• Track job retention for a minimum of 12-months

TARGET POPULATIONS

• CalWORKs Participants • Disconnected Youth

Economic Development Collaborative-Ventura County Pilot Project

BACKGROUND

BANCI supports preparing underrepresented minorities for sustainable careers in high-demand technology jobs. BANCI supports connecting previously economically-disconnected students to the Bay Area tech economic mainstream and developing an understanding by #YWC students that they have a responsibility to join and sustain the network.

NOVA Workforce Development Bay Area Networking Catalyst Initiative (BANCI)

THE BIG IDEA Customize a proven networking development program built for Silicon Valley high tech professionals-many of whom hold masters and doctoral degrees-and apply the model to a cohort of underrepresented minorities with generally lower levels of educational attainment and a lack of existing professional networks. This two-way knowledge bridge will also help NOVA adopt its Promatch model for multiple populations and thereby expand its impact and increase the U.S. Department of Labor and California Workforce Development Board’s respective returns on investment.

• Customize NOVA ProMatch model for #YMC students • Create a professional network for current and future #YWC

students

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Disconnected Youth • Low-Income Workers

BACKGROUND

This project shifts the outreach strategy to one informed by business data analytics, customized by industry sector and local labor market. By testing this strategy in 3 local areas, and documenting the results, we believe we may offer a model that may be implemented statewide, dramatically improving layoff aversion program efficiency. One of the challenges in local business and economic development is the identification of firms that are either at risk for failure.

THE BIG IDEA

Through extensive research and experimentation a correlation between gross revenue per employee has been identified, adjusted by industry sector, and at-risk condition. This data provides diagnostics and establishes opportunity for improved outreach to priority industry sectors.

GOALS • Job retention for a projected 300 at-risk low income workers • Direct engagement with not less than 120 firms, assessment

and provision of layoff aversion services. • Development of gross revenue per employment data for all

firms with 5 or more ee’s in 3 workforce areas. • Targeted outreach and layoff aversion services to not less

than 40 firms per workforce area

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Low-Income Workers

Economic Development Collaborative-Ventura County Pilot Project

BACKGROUND

BANCI supports preparing underrepresented minorities for sustainable careers in high-demand technology jobs. BANCI supports connecting previously economically-disconnected students to the Bay Area tech economic mainstream and developing an understanding by #YWC students that they have a responsibility to join and sustain the network.

NOVA Workforce Development Bay Area Networking Catalyst Initiative (BANCI)

THE BIG IDEA Customize a proven networking development program built for Silicon Valley high tech professionals-many of whom hold masters and doctoral degrees-and apply the model to a cohort of underrepresented minorities with generally lower levels of educational attainment and a lack of existing professional networks. This two-way knowledge bridge will also help NOVA adopt its Promatch model for multiple populations and thereby expand its impact and increase the U.S. Department of Labor and California Workforce Development Board’s respective returns on investment.

• Customize NOVA ProMatch model for #YMC students • Create a professional network for current and future #YWC

students

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Disconnected Youth • Low-Income Workers

BACKGROUND

This project shifts the outreach strategy to one informed by business data analytics, customized by industry sector and local labor market. By testing this strategy in 3 local areas, and documenting the results, we believe we may offer a model that may be implemented statewide, dramatically improving layoff aversion program efficiency. One of the challenges in local business and economic development is the identification of firms that are either at risk for failure.

THE BIG IDEA

Through extensive research and experimentation a correlation between gross revenue per employee has been identified, adjusted by industry sector, and at-risk condition. This data provides diagnostics and establishes opportunity for improved outreach to priority industry sectors.

GOALS • Job retention for a projected 300 at-risk low income workers • Direct engagement with not less than 120 firms, assessment

and provision of layoff aversion services. • Development of gross revenue per employment data for all

firms with 5 or more ee’s in 3 workforce areas. • Targeted outreach and layoff aversion services to not less

than 40 firms per workforce area

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Low-Income Workers

LeadersUp The Future at Work

BACKGROUND

Research has shown that individuals are three times more likely to achieve their financial goals if they participate in more than one service that can assist a client in achieving their goal. Based on this evidence, MPN initiative aims to enroll families in one or more additional services that may prove essential to their needs.

Mission Economic Development Agency Two-Generation Workforce Development

THE BIG IDEA By serving 120 job seekers through our MPN partnership with Good Samaritan, the project continues to build a better data baseline and points of analysis to measure the correlation between child academic success and parent/family economic success. MPN families who participate provide the same baseline data for debt, income, savings, and credit (DISC) outcome indicators. Over time, the data can be more effectively used to measure correlations in improvement of MPN and US Department of Education educational achievement indicators verses DISC outcomes, thereby giving us a better understanding of how our 2-generation works, and how it works best.

• Increase income potential for 120 clients • Toddlers will increase in Self and Social Development domain • 120 toddlers will be referred to other support services

TARGET POPULATIONS

• CalWORKs • Long Term Unemployed • Low-Income Workers

BACKGROUND

The innovative aspect of the project lies in our demand-driven approach that challenges businesses to become a part of the solution for building innovative approaches to removing barriers and bridging gaps in the public youth employment system. The focus of the project is to shift business practice around how they make investments in human capital as a business imperative while creating a more inclusive economy in the communities where they do business.

THE BIG IDEA

LeadersUp acts as an intermediary that implements an innovative strategy that engages and brings both businesses and practitioners to the table to inform, design and pilot a model OJT framework that is focused on incentivizing the business community to hire more disconnected youth, and in turn enable the LA County workforce system to fill more OJT slots with this target population.

GOALS • Business partners reap the ROI benefits of OJT incentives and

increase their OJT program participation with LA County workforce system.

• More OJT slots are filled with disconnected youth population leveraging WIOA resources.

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Ex-Offenders • CalWORKs Participation • Disconnected Youth

LeadersUp The Future at Work

BACKGROUND

Research has shown that individuals are three times more likely to achieve their financial goals if they participate in more than one service that can assist a client in achieving their goal. Based on this evidence, MPN initiative aims to enroll families in one or more additional services that may prove essential to their needs.

Mission Economic Development Agency Two-Generation Workforce Development

THE BIG IDEA By serving 120 job seekers through our MPN partnership with Good Samaritan, the project continues to build a better data baseline and points of analysis to measure the correlation between child academic success and parent/family economic success. MPN families who participate provide the same baseline data for debt, income, savings, and credit (DISC) outcome indicators. Over time, the data can be more effectively used to measure correlations in improvement of MPN and US Department of Education educational achievement indicators verses DISC outcomes, thereby giving us a better understanding of how our 2-generation works, and how it works best.

• Increase income potential for 120 clients • Toddlers will increase in Self and Social Development domain • 120 toddlers will be referred to other support services

TARGET POPULATIONS

• CalWORKs • Long Term Unemployed • Low-Income Workers

BACKGROUND

The innovative aspect of the project lies in our demand-driven approach that challenges businesses to become a part of the solution for building innovative approaches to removing barriers and bridging gaps in the public youth employment system. The focus of the project is to shift business practice around how they make investments in human capital as a business imperative while creating a more inclusive economy in the communities where they do business.

THE BIG IDEA

LeadersUp acts as an intermediary that implements an innovative strategy that engages and brings both businesses and practitioners to the table to inform, design and pilot a model OJT framework that is focused on incentivizing the business community to hire more disconnected youth, and in turn enable the LA County workforce system to fill more OJT slots with this target population.

GOALS • Business partners reap the ROI benefits of OJT incentives and

increase their OJT program participation with LA County workforce system.

• More OJT slots are filled with disconnected youth population leveraging WIOA resources.

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Ex-Offenders • CalWORKs Participation • Disconnected Youth

Institute for Local Government Governments Engaging Youth

BACKGROUND

CEO has developed training partnerships with a number of organizations in the Greater San Diego Area, including San Diego Metro Region Career Centers (SDMRCC) and San Diego Career Education (SDCE), which are both funded through WIOA. CEO also partners with the San Diego Community College District. Skills trainings provided by CEO partners will focus on skills Food Handlers (HACCP), OSHA and Forklift Certifications to more advanced skills such as Commercial Driver’s license, welding, metal trades, auto body and auto tech.

Center for Employment Opportunities San Diego Advanced Skills Training and Employment Services Project

THE BIG IDEA The original Accelerator 2.0. “Big Idea” was to combine technology, skills training and work-based learning to enhance and improve basic skills among formerly incarcerated individuals in San Bernardino County. The theory of change underlying this idea was that CEO’s evidence-based employment reentry service model could serve as a platform for new innovations and learning opportunities designed to help individuals with histories of incarceration succeed in the workforce.

• Enroll 40 in transitional work • Enroll 30 in advanced skills training • Pilot digital Passport to Success for 50 participants

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Ex-Offenders

BACKGROUND

GEY aims to build upon the experience of five sites implementing Summer at City Hall and three schools implementing Action Civics to showcase and scale-up program models promoting career pathways for disconnected youth as well as civic education training, that teaches 21st century skills, to empower youth to advocate for themselves and their communities.

THE BIG IDEA Accelerate the replication of GEY partnerships by using the successful

implementation experience of 5 Summer at City Hall (SACH) program sites and several Action Civics schools to develop and test a versatile toolkit that will help emerging programs flourish and provide disconnected youth opportunities to learn and engage with local government.

GOALS • Design and develop a toolkit to enable easier and more

efficient expansion of the GEY and Action Civics program models around the state.

• Launch a network of current GEY sites to strengthen implementation of the models and to more effectively serve disconnected youth.

TARGET POPULATIONS

Institute for Local Government Governments Engaging Youth

BACKGROUND

CEO has developed training partnerships with a number of organizations in the Greater San Diego Area, including San Diego Metro Region Career Centers (SDMRCC) and San Diego Career Education (SDCE), which are both funded through WIOA. CEO also partners with the San Diego Community College District. Skills trainings provided by CEO partners will focus on skills Food Handlers (HACCP), OSHA and Forklift Certifications to more advanced skills such as Commercial Driver’s license, welding, metal trades, auto body and auto tech.

Center for Employment Opportunities San Diego Advanced Skills Training and Employment Services Project

THE BIG IDEA The original Accelerator 2.0. “Big Idea” was to combine technology, skills training and work-based learning to enhance and improve basic skills among formerly incarcerated individuals in San Bernardino County. The theory of change underlying this idea was that CEO’s evidence-based employment reentry service model could serve as a platform for new innovations and learning opportunities designed to help individuals with histories of incarceration succeed in the workforce.

• Enroll 40 in transitional work • Enroll 30 in advanced skills training • Pilot digital Passport to Success for 50 participants

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Ex-Offenders

BACKGROUND

GEY aims to build upon the experience of five sites implementing Summer at City Hall and three schools implementing Action Civics to showcase and scale-up program models promoting career pathways for disconnected youth as well as civic education training, that teaches 21st century skills, to empower youth to advocate for themselves and their communities.

THE BIG IDEA Accelerate the replication of GEY partnerships by using the successful

implementation experience of 5 Summer at City Hall (SACH) program sites and several Action Civics schools to develop and test a versatile toolkit that will help emerging programs flourish and provide disconnected youth opportunities to learn and engage with local government.

GOALS • Design and develop a toolkit to enable easier and more

efficient expansion of the GEY and Action Civics program models around the state.

• Launch a network of current GEY sites to strengthen implementation of the models and to more effectively serve disconnected youth.

TARGET POPULATIONS

Allen Temple Health & Social Services Ministry CareerHub

BACKGROUND

The LACRII project will transition employment with a social enterprise that provides participants a first job out of prison and an immediate opportunity to earn daily wage; coordination of reentry services providers and digital education platform.

Los Angeles County Community & Senior Services (CSS) Los Angeles Reentry Innovation Impact (LACRII) Project

THE BIG IDEA CEO’s Big idea for its WAF 2.0 Project was to partner with IDEO.org, a firm that has worked with many nonprofit organization to integrate technology into their programs, to develop a digital contextual learning tool that would be completely new to the field of workforce development. The LACRII will replicate the use of these innovations in its Accelerator 3.0 reentry career services programming for the County’s jail inmates reentering their communities.

• Enrollment in AJCC WIOA Adult Services • Unsubsidized Employment Placement in High Growth Sector

Entry-Level Job • Unsubsidized employment Retention for AT-Least 6 Months

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Ex-Offenders

BACKGROUND

The projects have proven that Virtual Service Models applied to Disconnected Youth through structured training, coaching, technical assistance and peer learning opportunities increases engagement, builds employment skills, helps participants reach their goals, and generates better employment data.

THE BIG IDEA To design and test the effectiveness of virtual service provision on

employment and training outcomes for jobseekers. Replicate the partnership with community agencies, and design of virtual service models that meet the unique needs of their clients and program outcomes, while also providing parity to the model and evaluation of impact. The menu of services included in Virtual Service Models can include: coaching, training, reminders, referral to resources, employment/education verification and more.

GOALS • Increase attendance at events, workshops, meetings by 20% • Increase response rate to employment/ training verification

requests by 35% • Increase employment skills by 25%

TARGET POPULATIONS

Allen Temple Health & Social Services Ministry CareerHub

BACKGROUND

The LACRII project will transition employment with a social enterprise that provides participants a first job out of prison and an immediate opportunity to earn daily wage; coordination of reentry services providers and digital education platform.

Los Angeles County Community & Senior Services (CSS) Los Angeles Reentry Innovation Impact (LACRII) Project

THE BIG IDEA CEO’s Big idea for its WAF 2.0 Project was to partner with IDEO.org, a firm that has worked with many nonprofit organization to integrate technology into their programs, to develop a digital contextual learning tool that would be completely new to the field of workforce development. The LACRII will replicate the use of these innovations in its Accelerator 3.0 reentry career services programming for the County’s jail inmates reentering their communities.

• Enrollment in AJCC WIOA Adult Services • Unsubsidized Employment Placement in High Growth Sector

Entry-Level Job • Unsubsidized employment Retention for AT-Least 6 Months

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Ex-Offenders

BACKGROUND

The projects have proven that Virtual Service Models applied to Disconnected Youth through structured training, coaching, technical assistance and peer learning opportunities increases engagement, builds employment skills, helps participants reach their goals, and generates better employment data.

THE BIG IDEA To design and test the effectiveness of virtual service provision on

employment and training outcomes for jobseekers. Replicate the partnership with community agencies, and design of virtual service models that meet the unique needs of their clients and program outcomes, while also providing parity to the model and evaluation of impact. The menu of services included in Virtual Service Models can include: coaching, training, reminders, referral to resources, employment/education verification and more.

GOALS • Increase attendance at events, workshops, meetings by 20% • Increase response rate to employment/ training verification

requests by 35% • Increase employment skills by 25%

TARGET POPULATIONS

Bay Area Council Workforce Aggregator Heat Map Tool

BACKGROUND

While the positive impacts of volunteering in the community are

well documented, using the community volunteering model as a workforce development intervention is an innovation. Volunteering offers the opportunity to practice critical

workplace skills such as teamwork, communication, punctuality, and

accepting feedback in an environment that is less

intimidating and less formal than an employment program or the

workplace.

Community Housing Partnership Community Housing Partnership Service Corps

• Volunteer Experience Placement • Credential Attainment

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Ex-Offenders • Long Term Unemployed • Low-Income Workers

BACKGROUND

The heat map is a unique product to bring meaning to the growing streams of labor data sources. Despite the amount of workforce data that already has been collected, a multitude of entities still feel like they lack a comprehensive understanding of the regional supply of and demand for middle-skill workers, employers and job seekers.

THE BIG IDEA Launch a workforce “heat map’ populated by real-time data generated by public sources and employers to help flag areas where more coordination is needed on training and hiring. The Council would extrapolate middle-skill workforce supply and demand needs using data sets drawn from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the State of California Employment Development Department, the integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, the Bay Area Community College Consortium, and job search engine scraping done by Economic Modeling Specialists International.

GOALS • Alignment of what workers need from suppliers of workforce and

from workforce directly. • Engage employers, and industry associations with suppliers.

TARGET POPULATIONS

• CalWORKs Participants • Disconnected Youth • Ex-Offenders

• Individuals with Disabilities • Long Term Unemployed • Low-Income Workers • Returning Veterans

Bay Area Council Workforce Aggregator Heat Map Tool

BACKGROUND

While the positive impacts of volunteering in the community are

well documented, using the community volunteering model as a workforce development intervention is an innovation. Volunteering offers the opportunity to practice critical

workplace skills such as teamwork, communication, punctuality, and

accepting feedback in an environment that is less

intimidating and less formal than an employment program or the

workplace.

Community Housing Partnership Community Housing Partnership Service Corps

• Volunteer Experience Placement • Credential Attainment

TARGET POPULATIONS

• Ex-Offenders • Long Term Unemployed • Low-Income Workers

BACKGROUND

The heat map is a unique product to bring meaning to the growing streams of labor data sources. Despite the amount of workforce data that already has been collected, a multitude of entities still feel like they lack a comprehensive understanding of the regional supply of and demand for middle-skill workers, employers and job seekers.

THE BIG IDEA Launch a workforce “heat map’ populated by real-time data generated by public sources and employers to help flag areas where more coordination is needed on training and hiring. The Council would extrapolate middle-skill workforce supply and demand needs using data sets drawn from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the State of California Employment Development Department, the integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, the Bay Area Community College Consortium, and job search engine scraping done by Economic Modeling Specialists International.

GOALS • Alignment of what workers need from suppliers of workforce and

from workforce directly. • Engage employers, and industry associations with suppliers.

TARGET POPULATIONS

• CalWORKs Participants • Disconnected Youth • Ex-Offenders

• Individuals with Disabilities • Long Term Unemployed • Low-Income Workers • Returning Veterans

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