Equity Target Population Fund Technical Assistance Award – PY 22-23

Workforce Services Information Notice
WSIN22-33

Issued: March 22, 2023

The Employment Development Department (EDD), on behalf of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, is pleased to announce one award of  $1.6 million in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Governor’s discretionary funds for an Equity Target Population Fund (ETPF) Technical Assistance (TA) grant for Program Year (PY) 2022-23 Solicitation for Proposals (SFP). The selected organization has the expertise to support workforce development projects that will drive innovation and systems change.

The ETPF TA awardee will provide TA to the Equity and Special Populations (ESP) PY 20-21 and the ETPF PY 22-23 program awardees in designing, developing, and implementing projects that provide training and education with employment and support services to under-served job seekers facing significant employment barriers in the following California Regions: Ventura, Los Angeles, Tulare, Alameda, Contra Costa, Los Angeles, Marin, San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Sacramento, and San Diego.

An award of $1.6 million supports the assessment, analysis, and improvement of current education, training, and employment service delivery approaches. The TA awardee will work in close coordination with the ESP PY 21-22 and ETPF PY 22-23 awardees, the EDD project managers, and all relevant stakeholders to build organizational and leadership capacity, implement changes to service delivery models, close service gaps, engage in strategic planning, and scale effective program design to inform workforce policy statewide.

The EDD expects the performance period to be between 18 and 24 months. A list of the awardees and descriptions of their projects is available on the EDD Workforce Development Solicitations for Proposals webpage. 

If you have questions regarding the ESP grant solicitation, please email WSBGrants@edd.ca.gov.

 

/s/ KIMBERLEE MEYER, Chief
Central Office Workforce Services Division

Federal Funding Disclosure: This Equity Target Population Fund Grant Program is funded by a grant award totaling $6,636,606 (100%) from the U.S. Department of Labor, with $0 (0%) financed from non-federal sources.