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More than 50 young adults attended the CONNECT2Careers (C2C) End-Of-Summer Celebration on Sept. 16. Held at Junior Achievement San Diego, the event marked the conclusion of the 2014 youth summer employment program. City of San Diego Councilmembers Lorie Zapf and

The San Diego Workforce Partnership has released our Annual Report 2013-2014, highlighting the steps the organization made this past year toward realizing our vision of every business in San Diego County having access to a skilled workforce and every job

Founded in 1965, the Metropolitan Area Advisory Committee on Anti-Poverty (MAAC) was created with a mission to maximize self-sufficiency with families and individuals through high-quality programs and advocacy in its communities. As one of San Diego’s largest nonprofit social services

The San Diego Workforce Partnership has received proclamations by the San Diego City Council and County Board of Supervisors naming September Workforce Development Month and recognizing SDWP’s leadership in workforce development and providing work-readiness training to San Diegans for 40

The Sept. 18 Workforce Investment Board (WIB) meeting was generously hosted by Qualcomm’s Thinkabit Lab. Ed Hidalgo, senior director of staffing at Qualcomm and a WIB member, shared details of the company’s new outreach program, which provides hands-on lab experiences

Today, the California Employment Development Department (EDD) reported a decline in unemployment and an increase in employment numbers for San Diego from July 2014 to August 2014. Highlights from the report include: • San Diego’s unemployment rate dropped 0.4 percent

Earlier this week, San Diego Workforce Partnership CEO Peter Callstrom joined a bi-partisan delegation of more than 100 business, community and elected leaders on an advocacy trip to Washington D.C. SDWP Policy Board Chair and County Supervisor, Ron Roberts, and

CONNECT2Careers (C2C) experienced another successful summer connecting hundreds of youth with jobs. Youth will mark the winding down of the 2014 program at the C2C End-Of-Summer Celebration event on Sept. 16 at Junior Achievement San Diego. C2C connected 334 youth

Earlier this month, the California Workforce Association (CWA) annual Meeting of the Minds conference brought together workforce professionals from the Department of Labor’s Region 6 (California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Arizona and Nevada) along with professionals from other states across

Ryan walked into the South Metro Career Center in January 2014 with an uplifting and very pleasant demeanor about him. As he began a conversation with a one of the center’s career agents, Ryan expressed that he had some concerns