Los Angeles and Orange Counties have been working for the last three years to better connect Community Colleges to the Workforce Investment Boards. This project, called The Ideal Partnership, has worked to create a better understanding of the services, activities, funding and resources of both groups.

Each college now has a representative that is identified as the “Workforce Investment Board point of contact” at the college. At every regional meeting there is a report and discussion on how to better link with the overall workforce system. The focus of The Ideal Partnership this year is to pilot the linking of one college with one workforce board and go after funding for a joint project.

For further information on how it all got started, contact Dr. Lynn Shaw, Long Beach City College/CCCAOE LA/OC VP at lshaw@lbcc.edu.