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In some ways, Andrea is like many other high school students; she enjoys going to the movies with friends and works at a restaurant in her spare time. In other ways, she is very much unlike many of her peers.

The new SDWP Workforce Development Board (WDB) held its first meeting on February 18. Board members were officially sworn in and discussed the strategic overview of SDWP and its programs. WDB member Dr. Sunita Cooke, President of MiraCosta Community College

On February 16, 2016, three members of SDWP’s Rapid Re-employment for Dislocated Workers customer-centered design (CCD) team attended a Learning Exchange and Celebration at the White House with 10 other selected teams from across the country. During the four-hour meeting,

Former SDWP board president Rebecca Aguilera-Gardiner recently traveled to Washington, D.C. to represent San Diego as a Business Leaders United employer at the National Skills Coalition Skills Summit. Business Leaders United for Workforce Partnerships (BLU) is comprised of employers from

The much anticipated first cohort of the Platform to Employment (P2E) program graduated on Thursday, February 11. Twenty-one long-term unemployed individuals completed the five-week preparatory course — a boot camp offered at no cost to participants — covering skills assessment,

A regional effort of San Diego Community Colleges, the Employee Training Institute (ETi) provides custom workforce training to businesses of all sizes and types. ETI serves the Community Colleges’ mission by bringing education out to companies, offering training programs at the

Last weekend, over 700 people gathered in San Diego at the sold out Linked Learning Convention for a chance for to come together to expand high quality Linked Learning opportunities for more young people. The conference welcomed elected officials, business

Jonathan King was unemployed when he joined the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Career Center at the downtown library — one in a network of America’s Job Center of California (AJCC) sites — in August 2014. He had been laid

Rebecca Bianconi is a Project Coordinator at the San Diego Workforce Partnership. Here she describes her role, discusses what she likes best about working in workforce development and shares one of her proudest professional moments.  Tell us about your role

  Employers are invited to learn how to apply for wage reimbursements, training subsidies and hiring resources at a Hiring Subsidies and Resources workshop hosted by SDWP and its partners. SDWP’s Business Services Team is traveling throughout the County to