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Industries with a Statewide Need
Award List and Project Summaries

On January 25, 2007, grants were awarded to 15 organizations under the Industries with a Statewide Need category. Project descriptions, award amounts, and contact information are listed below.

Award List and Project Summaries
Awardees Target Industry County Award Amount
California Labor Federation Infrastructure Development - Mass Transit Alameda $600,000
Chaffey College Infrastructure Development - Construction San Bernardino $481,354
Community Career Development Logistics Los Angeles $600,000
Foundation for California State University, San Bernardino Healthcare/Nursing San Bernardino $600,000
Imperial Valley Regional Occupation Healthcare/Nursing Imperial $600,000
Long Beach City Logistics Los Angeles $600,000
Los Angeles City Infrastructure Development - Construction Los Angeles $600,000
Mendocino County Healthcare/Nursing Mendocino $589,848
Monterey County Healthcare/Nursing Monterey $528,705
North Central Counties Consortium Healthcare/Nursing Sutter $350,000
Northern Rural Training and Employment Consortium Healthcare/Nursing Butte $600,000
Rural Human Services Incorporated Healthcare/Nursing Del Norte $396,646
Sacramento Employment Training Agency Healthcare/Nursing Sacramento $600,000
Shirley Ware Education Center Healthcare/Nursing Alameda $600,000
West Hills Community College District Healthcare/ Nursing Fresno $600,000
TOTAL $8,346,553

California Labor Federation
600 Grand Avenue, Suite 410
Oakland, CA 94610

Tim Rainey
(510) 663-4087

Award Amount: $600,000

Summary: This proposal was developed and will be implemented through a multi-regional industry-labor and Workforce Investment Board partnership including transit agencies, unions and Sacramento Employment and Training Agency. Communities throughout the state are investing in mass transit. Coupled with increased rider ship, aging workforce, and changing technology, these investments further strain acute shortages of maintenance staff. Impending State bond measures would exacerbate skills shortages, hampering implementation of infrastructure development. These regional projects establish career ladder training, addressing current pipeline access and capacity as well as future skill shortages. Additionally these models are transferable through a statewide training consortium also enabled by this project. Targets Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority and Sacramento Regional Transit District to upgrade skills of 140 current transit and service mechanics and to train 40 new entrants.

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Chaffey College
5885 Haven Avenue
Rancho Cucamongo, CA 91730

Kathleen Dutton
(909) 941-2730

Award Amount: $481,354

Summary: Chaffey College will provide short term training so 200 "hard-to-serve" clients can enter the field of construction. This training offers a holistic approach to successfully address barriers to gainful employment and wage progression. Intensive case management and intervention will be part of this training. Job progression, wage progression and retention will increase due to these efforts and inclusion of an "employer expectations" component. Students will be cross-trained in both wood and steel framing methods while provided opportunities for hands-on instruction. They will also receive an overview of multiple trades, tool handling/identification, physical conditioning, and applied math. Approximately 150 individuals will be placed in entry-level construction jobs with opportunities for career upgrades.

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Community Career Development
3550 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 500
Los Angeles, CA 90010

Gloria Moore
(213) 365-9829

Award Amount: $600,000

Summary: The purpose of the proposed project is to implement an innovative, comprehensive industry-driven training program to meet the needs of the logistics industry employers by providing a workforce with the necessary skill sets that, combined with a positive work ethic, will contribute to the regional, statewide and national economy. The project will target 150 adults, dislocated workers, unemployed, underemployed and incumbent workers to receive logistics skills training certification. Community Career Development and its Logistics Working Group have developed and tested a comprehensive training curriculum with the involvement of logistics industry employers. The logistics skills certificate will allow 120 individuals to be placed in employment within the logistics industry.

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Foundation for California State University, San Bernardino
5500 University Parkway
San Bernardino, CA 92407

Charles Stanley
(909) 537-3914

Award Amount: $600,000

Summary: This project is a two-county response to the nursing shortage. The project will: a) enable 120 students to complete an accelerated Bachelor of Science Nursing program; b) provide case management, tutoring and financial support to increase retention of nursing students; and c) increase the number of nursing faculty. The end result: 120 additional, highly skilled, BSN trained nurses who will be committed to remaining in the Inland Southern California region. The local Workforce Investment Board will provide monitoring, reporting and case management. The Riverside Community Hospital will provide clinical training and over $2 million in cash and in-kind match. The California State University San Bernardino will provide academic training to Bachelor of Science Nursing and twelve new nursing faculty.

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Imperial Valley Regional Occupation
687 State Street
El Centro, CA 92243

Mary Camacho
(760) 482-2644

Award Amount: $600,000

Summary: Project ONE (Opportunities in Nursing and Engineering), proposes to serve and meet the educational and employment needs of 170 WIA eligible youth and adults. Project goals are to provide the 10 program elements to 150 high school (11th & 12th grades) youth and help them attain educational and occupations skills that are applicable in the healthcare and building infrastructure career fields. Educational and training opportunities will be offered to 20 Adult Registered Nurse (RN) students to ensure the likelihood that they will complete their educationalprograms and become employed as RNs.

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Long Beach City
3447 Atlantic Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90802

Bryan Rogers
(562) 570-3701

Award Amount: $600,000

Summary: The Port Opportunities Program (POP) is designed to address the identified workforce needs of the logistics-goods movement industry by increasing community awareness of career opportunities, expand the number of logistics-related skill training classes, and develop curriculum specific to industry needs including warehouse inventory control, tracking, and advanced transportation. In addition, the POP Program will establish the Goods Movement Education Center as a centralized point of service, training and information and develop a user-friendly website to enable interested job seekers to research opportunities in the goods movement industry, job requirements, and available training opportunities. This proposal will reach 400 individuals through "Road Shows" to increase awareness of the goods movement industry. Approximately 288 will enter training/internships, 167 will receive industry recognized goods movement certificates and over 200 will be placed in employment.

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Los Angeles City
1200 West 7th Street, 6th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017

Jamie Pacheco-Orozco
(213) 744-7223

Award Amount: $600,000

Summary: The Community Development Department (CDD) of the City of Los Angeles will work with faith-based organizations and community-based organizations to identify potential clients residing in South Los Angeles for a construction training program. CDD will partner with Playa Vista Job Opportunities, the WeBuild Program of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), as well as with the South East Los Angeles and the South Los Angeles WorkSource Centers to assess and place these residents into apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeships. This partnership will also leverage resources with the Centinella Valley Adult School and the LAUSD to provide construction training opportunities and resources beyond the funding period. Approximately 80 individuals will be placed in construction jobs and 40 will be placed in non-construction related jobs.

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Mendocino County
631 South Orchard Avenue
Ukiah, CA 95482

Colleen Henderson
(707) 467-5589

Award Amount: $589,848

Summary: This program, through a Workforce Investment Board led regional collaboration, will target health care training facilities to: 1) substantially expand training capacity, allowing acceptance and training of a greater number of qualified applicants; 2) provide a career ladder into health care with its sustainable wage occupations; and 3) support the growing health care industry by addressing the escalating need for health care professionals. This project will address both education and training constraints, leverage existing One-Stop partner programs, and will greatly increase opportunities for education, training and access to careers along the entire nursing career ladder. The project will enroll 79 individuals and complete training and placement for 59 Registered Nurses and 20 Licensed Vocational Nurses.

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Monterey County
730 La Guardia Street/P.O. Box 2135
Salinas, CA 93905

Joseph Werner
(831) 759-6644

Award Amount: $528,705

Summary: Monterey County has experienced and is experiencing great difficulty filling openings in the healthcare field with qualified applicants. The southern portions of the County and the Salinas corridor, in particular, have great challenges in finding and developing individuals with the needed basic skills and training. This grant proposal seeks to partner with a major south Monterey County Hospital and a large employment training agency to provide the needed basic skills, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) training, work experience and on-the-job training experiences for individuals that may not otherwise have that kind of opportunity. This hospital is the only hospital within a 150 mile radius and is planning to build a new facility. This proposal will place 92 CNAs at the hospital.

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North Central Counties
Consortium
1215 Plumas Street, Suite 1800
Yuba City, CA 95991

Stewart Knox
(530) 821-7145

Award Amount: $350,000

Summary: Health care is a fast growing industry in North Central Counties Consortium and California. The goal of this grant is to train 60 participants in the health care fields of Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) and Registered Nurse (RN). Recruitment of people new to the health care field will take place as will career advancement/career bridge from LVN to RN. Additionally, the project will provide re-entry training to RNs who are licensed but have left the field for an extended period and require a skills refresher course. Coordination with local hospitals and training sites is provided for this grant.

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Northern Rural Training and Employment Consortium (NoRTEC)
7420 Skyway
Paradise, CA 95969

Terrianne Brown
(530) 872-9600

Award Amount: $600,000

Summary: The purpose of this project is to continue to develop local training opportunities for healthcare workers in the rural ten county area of NoRTEC. This project will assist 54 individuals to obtain Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) to Registered Nurse upgrade training in Lassen, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, and Tehama Counties. LVNs in Siskiyou County will have the opportunity to access for the first time locally provided skills upgrade training at the College of the Siskiyous. In other remote areas individuals will be provided with assistance to access training at locations a substantial distance from their homes.

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Rural Human Services Incorporated
286 M Street
Crescent City, CA 95531

Larry Lakes
(707) 464-7441

Award Amount: $396,646

Summary: The Health Careers Opportunities Program provides residents of Del Norte County a practical way to pursue and/or advance in medical careers. Targeting transitioning high school students, and unemployed/ underemployed adults, the project provides career guidance, individual plan preparation, funds for training, support services, job search and placement and follow up services. The project benefits from and utilizes the existing partnerships with College of the Redwoods, Del Norte County, Del Norte Unified School District, Sutter Coast Hospital and others. The project will continue the success of the past four years recruiting, training, and placing participants into health careers. The project will train and place 86 individuals in various nursing occupations such as Certified Nurse Assistant, Licensed Vocational Nurse and Registered Nurse. Approximately 250 high school students will receive health career information.

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Sacramento Employment Training Agency
925 Del Paso Boulevard
Sacramento, CA 95815

Cindy Sherwood-Green
(916) 263-3857

Award Amount: $600,000

Summary: Sacramento Employment Training Agency (SETA) proposes the development of an internet accessible distance education Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree program for 52 working Associate Degreed Nurses (ADN) who find course accessibility a barrier to education and career advancement. This will expand the capacity of the California State University, Sacramento ADN to BSN program and increase the supply of nurses who will qualify to fill vacant nurse educator and leadership positions.Project candidates will be referred by industry partners, the region's four largest healthcare systems, and case managed by SETA. Graduating BSNs will be eligible for upgraded positions within their employer organizations.

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Shirley Ware Education Center
560 Thomas Berkley Way
Oakland, CA 94612

Elizabeth Troups
(415) 553-4470

Award Amount: $600,000

Summary: Shirley Ware Education Center (SWEC) will partner with Santa Monica College on a distance learning Associate Degree Nurse project that California Board of Nursing has required to be piloted in Los Angeles County. Twenty incumbent Kaiser Permanente and California Healthcare West Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN) will be enrolled. Similarly, SWEC will partner with East Los Angeles College to train 20 LVNs in a customized “traditional” LVN to Registered Nurse program. Lastly, SWEC will enroll 100 incumbent workers in science preparatory courses for nurse and other high-skill health occupations. SEIU United Healthcare Workers West and Joint Employer Education Fund will supply cash matching funds for this Los Angeles project.

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West Hills Community College District
9900 Cody Street
Coalinga, CA 93210

Carole Goldsmith
(559) 934-2131

Award Amount: $600,000

Summary: West Hills College District, at the Lemoore College campus, will start a new Registered Nursing Program to serve Kings and rural West Fresno counties. This program is targeting a rural region that is identified as a “Health Professional Shortage Area”. The goal of this project is to "grow-our-own" healthcare professionals with the long-range outcome of improving rural healthcare services. Approximately 150 individuals will receive training resulting in 60 Registered Nurses (RN), 30 Medical Assistants and 60 Certified Nursing Assistants. Hospitals and healthcare facilities are extremely supportive of a new RN program. Currently, their efforts to employ qualified RNs are limited by the lack of local RN training programs.