AB 628: Breaking Barriers to Employment Initiative - Request for Applications
Workforce Services Information Notice
WSIN22-08
Issued: August 2, 2022
The California Workforce Development Board (CWDB), in partnership with the Foundation for California Community Colleges, is pleased to announce the availability of $22.7 million in state general funds for Assembly Bill 628: Breaking Barriers to Employment Initiative (Initiative). The Initiative aims to provide individuals with barriers to employment the services they need to enter, participate in, and complete broader workforce preparation, training and education programs, to obtain and retain employment.
The Initiative is intended to do the following:
- Supplement existing workforce and education programs by providing services to ensure the success of individuals either preparing to enter or already enrolled in workforce and education programs.
- Address racial and ethnic exclusion and inequity in the labor force and enhance racial and economic justice.
- Create pipelines to quality jobs, upward mobility, and income security for workers historically excluded from quality jobs and economic prosperity.
Applications may request up to $750,000 and, at a minimum, must include a partnership of at least one community-based organization and one Local Workforce Development Board with experience in providing services consistent with the objectives of this Initiative and to the populations specified.
All applications must be submitted through the Cal-E-Grants portal by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, September 2, 2022. Only applications submitted through the Cal-E-Grants portal will be considered.
For more information, please visit the CWDBs Breaking Barriers to Employment Initiative webpage.
/s/ KIMBERLEE MEYER, Chief
Central Office Workforce Services Division