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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents with the State of California to receive $73,000 in Workforce Investment Act/Workforce Accelerator funds to operate the Employer Engagement for Transition-Aged Foster Youth project; execute an agreement with various project partners in an amount totaling $41,000; and to execute any needed subsequent amendments. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network (Pacific Gateway) administers the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and other employment and training funds received annually by the City. These funds support job training programs and business services delivered by the Career Transition Center, Youth Opportunity Center, Torrance Career Center, Harbor WorkSource Center, and selected community-based organizations, to assist local residents in acquiring skills leading to employment in high-demand occupations with local employers.
Additionally, Pacific Gateway operates the Youth Opportunity Center to facilitate assistance with education completion, access to career and technical education and training, participation in internships, and other work-based experiences. To maximize outreach in the communities covered by Pacific Gateway and to deliver many of the above services prescribed by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), Pacific Gateway partners with qualified education- and community-based organizations to deliver many of these intensive academic and work-based program elements.
In April of this year, Pacific Gateway submitted a grant request to the California Workforce Investment Board and the Employment Development Department seeking funds to develop a new program model that improves job development for disconnected foster youth. This pilot program will connect 25 employers to approximately 40 youth and provide them with meaningful workplace opportunities. Pacific Gateway will test this pilot program and use outcomes to develop a new, professionally-generat...
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