In the News - City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board

City of LA's Workforce Development Board and over 40 Partners Launch the LA Performance Partnership Pilot Strategic Plan for Serving LA Region's 170,000 Disconnected Young Adults

Los Angeles P3 2017 Strategic Plan - Serving Disconnected Youth

In partnership with Los Angeles County, Los Angeles Unified School District, and the Los Angeles Community College District, the Los Angeles Performance Partnership Pilot (LAP3) Initiative releases a strategic plan to address the employment, education, and housing outcomes for 66,000 City and 170,000 County disconnected high school dropouts, probation, foster and homeless youth

On August 2, 2017, an unprecedented LAP3 Strategic Plan was unveiled to address the nearly one out of six young people, ages 18-24, in the City and County of Los Angeles who are both out of school and out of work.

California Community Colleges and LAEDC Launch Center for a Competitive Workforce

Rapidly Changing Skills Requirements Prompt Industry-College Initiative

Los Angeles County's 19 Community colleges, in partnership with the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, the Southern California Leadership Council, and the Center of Excellence for Labor Market Research at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, have launched

Ready To Work, Uprooting Inequity: Black Workers in Los Angeles County

LA black workers gathering to create awareness of employment inequity

Report by UCLA: LA is in "Throes of a Black Jobs Crisis"

At the April 27, 2017 meeting of the Workforce Development Board's Executive Committee, DeAndrea Lottier and Tamara Haywood, managers of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center, presented the findings of UCLA's report, Ready To Work, Uprooting Inequity: Black Workers in Los Angeles County.

Year 18 Annual Plan, the Operating Plan, Budget, Strategies and Policies Plan for 2017-18 Approved

On June 21, 2017 and June 28, 2017, respectively, the Los Angeles City Council and Mayor Eric Garcetti approved the Workforce Development Board's Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) 2017-2018 Annual Plan.

The Annual Plan covers the service strategies, activities and budget for the City’s Workforce Development System. It outlines how the City will

Mayor Garcetti Kicks Off Career Fair at Los Angeles Abilities Expo

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti kicked off the Abilities Career Fair at the Los Angeles Abilities Expo 2017, held on Friday, March 24 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Abilities Expo is a nationwide set of large-scale exhibitions focused entirely on the wide variety of services, products, advocacy and activities for the disability community.

Los Angeles Basin Regional and Local Workforce Development Plans Completed and Moving Forward

Background on the Regional Workforce Development Plan

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 (WIOA) and the State of California Workforce Development Board mandates regional workforce planning by local workforce development boards. In the case of Los Angeles County, the State has designated the Los Angeles Basin Regional Planning Unit for the purpose of regional workforce development planning. This unit covers the whole county and is represented by the seven local Workforce Development Boards