2018

To hear Sterling Tran tell it, City Heights Coffee House (CHCH) was in the cards for her since childhood. A social enterprise nonprofit that started in an alley off El Cajon Boulevard in 2016, the coffee house recently moved to its new brick and mortar home at 4465 University Avenue. Its mission is to help people become self-sufficient and to be the “central, multicultural gathering hub for our City Heights community.”

The San Diego Workforce Partnership (SDWP) is currently helping Kaiser Permanente and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) to spearhead a program called the Inner City Capital Connections (ICCC). The program strives to help small businesses in economically distressed areas build capacity for sustainable growth in revenue, profitability and employment.

Last year, the San Diego Workforce Partnership (SDWP) launched OpportunitySD, a movement to dramatically reduce the number of opportunity youth (young adults ages 16-24 who are neither in school nor working) in the region. In March of this year, SDWP’s opportunity youth research with Measure of America revealed that San Diego County had the largest Black-White disconnection disparity of any big city in the nation in 2016, the most recent year for which data are available.

The San Diego Workforce Partnership (SDWP) offers a menu of services to support employers at any stage of the business life cycle. Whether your company is just starting up, growing and hiring, or downsizing and restructuring, SDWP provides services to offset the costs and headaches you encounter along the way.

Workcon, sponsored by the California Workforce Association, is a unique gathering of workforce, education, economic development and government professionals and other key partners helping to provide a trained, skilled workforce to California’s diverse regional economies.

On April 4–6, the Workforce of Tomorrow conference hosted by U.S. News STEM Solutions in Washington, D.C. examined the complexities of developing a workforce skilled in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), inviting leaders to bring key insights, innovative strategies and industry best practices to develop solutions for advancing this effort.

SAN DIEGO, CA — The San Diego Workforce Partnership (SDWP) announces the appointment of new members to its Workforce Development Board (WDB) and Consortium Policy Board. A new Consortium Policy Board Chair has also been named.

David Hastings is an Accounts Payable Specialist at the San Diego Workforce Partnership. Here he tells a little bit about himself, both personally and professionally.

Candace Vanderhoff spent over a decade founding businesses that aim to improve the environment. Vanderhoff previously had a greywater company prior to her current enterprise, Kaping, Inc., which makes the SoloBee, a pesticide-free nesting place for solitary native bees—the “unstung hero.”

Last month over 4,000 attendees gathered in downtown San Diego for the 9th annual ASU+GSV Summit. World leaders from over 40 countries joined innovative tech companies and education and workforce development professionals to discuss the future of education and the world