WIOA Regional Organizing

Updated November 2018

California’s 45 local workforce development boards are organized into 14 regional planning units (RPUs).  RPUs are implementing regional and local Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) plans that align partnerships with education, business, and community organizations for skill attainment, economic mobility and shared prosperity. Resources:  California Workforce Development Board Regional Implementation  

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Sector

Regional WIOA work explicitly focuses on in-demand sectors within and between geographic and political lines.

Design

Alignment of regional efforts including Regional Organizing, Regional Training Coordinators, SlingShot, WAF, High Road Training Partnerships, High Road Construction Careers (MC3), Forward Focus, and Strong Workforce.

Partnership

Regional organizers work with cross system stakeholders within these defined geographic areas:

  • Bay-Peninsula Regional Planning Unit
  • Capital Planning Unit
  • Coastal Regional Planning Unit
  • East Bay Regional Planning Unit
  • Inland Empire Regional Planning Unit
  • Los Angeles Basin
  • Middle Sierra Regional Planning Unit
  • North Bay Regional Planning Unit
  • North Coast Regional Planning Unit
  • North State Regional Planning Unit
  • Orange Regional Planning Unit
  • Los Angeles Basin
  • San Joaquin Valley Regional Planning Unit
  • Southern Border
  • Ventura Regional Planning Unit

Delivery

Element is not present in this initiative.

Supports

Element is not present in this initiative.

Measurement

Regional Organizers focus on these outcomes:

  • Development and delivery of a unified regional business outreach/engagement approach to boost the regions employers/industry as leaders and champions and develop demand driven sector strategies 
  • Increased capacity to incorporate strategies for system alignment, better jobs and better wages for all Californians, and demand driven skill attainment. 
  • Increased capacity building of local board and partnering staff. 
  • Increase efficiencies, identify and reduce duplication through regional cooperation.
Opportunity

Regional organizing seeks to build on partnerships and practices started under Slingshot efforts as well as enhancing population specific strategies developed under the Workforce Accelerator Fund cohorts.  

Regional organizers can insure that California’s WIOA local plan updates leverage the regional planning happening within the Strong Workforce and AEP planning requirements. 

Does this information need updating or adjustment? Send us your suggestions: CAcareerpathway@clasp.org