TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents, and any necessary amendments thereof, with the U.S. Department of Labor to receive up to $4,000,000 in H-1B Job Training Grants to implement the Strengthening Working Families Initiative; execute agreements with various initiative partner providers in a total amount of $665,000 for the period of July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2020; and
Increase appropriations in the Community Development Grants Fund (SR 150) in the Economic and Property Development Department (EP) by $4,000,000, offset by grant revenue. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Pacific Gateway administers the Federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and other employment and training funds received annually by the City. Those funds support job training programs and business services delivered by the Career Transition Center, Harbor Gateway WorkSource Center, and selected community-based organizations to assist local residents to acquire skills leading to employment in high demand occupations with local employers.
Pacific Gateway initiated a collaboration with a consortium of business and education partners in response to a grant solicitation by the U.S Department of Labor in support of demand industries. The proposal contains a multi-strategic effort to help 400 unemployed and underemployed parents to connect to quality employment in strong, local industry sectors with H-1B impacted occupations. The Advancing Long Beach Families Project (Project) will introduce a number of system changes with broad, lasting impact on the City’s WIOA services. Pacific Gateway is partnering with the City’s Department of Health and Human Services and the Long Beach Early Childhood Education (LBECE) Committee to implement a system that removes financial and bureaucratic barriers that currently prevent parents from thriving. To further increase access, Pacific Gateway will pilot additional strategies: co-location of cohorts at chi...
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