Last month, UNITE-LA joined workforce partners in Oakland for the statewide launch of the Building Opportunities and Optimizing Skills for Transitions (BOOST) Project.

Last month, UNITE-LA hit its maximum capacity of 100 attendees for its Virtual Health Care Career Fair!

With the recent launch of the fall LA Regional Cleantech Career Academy, UNITE-LA proudly launched its Executive Leadership Exchange—a new speaker series in partnership with the Big Energy Group—with an inspiring conversation featuring Michelle Gaskill-Hames, President of Kaiser Permanente.

On Sept. 16, UNITE-LA was very proud the LA Regional Cleantech Career Academy launched its sixth cohort, welcoming 62 students!

Our growing partnership with Accenture took an exciting step forward this year as UNITE-LA was asked to serve as a key recruitment partner for the launch of their pilot Digital Storytelling Academy.

UNITE-LA proudly welcomes its 10th Step into Tech cohort—23 participants and two Emerging Leaders (Step into Tech alumni)—into a transformative journey toward tech careers.

Over the last three weeks, UNITE-LA partnered with the Los Angeles Rams on their 7th Annual High School Academic Challenge, reaching more than 500 LAUSD students through campus tours, NCAA presentations and career panels at UCLA.

UNITE-LA is thrilled to announce our President, Alysia Bell, has been appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to serve on the California Workforce Development Board!

UNITE-LA, in partnership with the L.A. Opportunity Youth Collaborative, convened foster youth leaders and staff from the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services’ (DCFS) Youth Engagement Section (YES) for a “Measuring What Matters” training. Youth and system leaders worked together to begin identifying a shared set of metrics that will guide YES in improving outcomes for transition-age youth.

This summer, the Project CAMINOS STEM Summer Academy at Cal Poly Pomona (CPP) welcomed high school students from across Los Angeles for a week of hands-on STEM exploration. Now in its sixth year, Project CAMINOS has been supported by the L.A. Region K-16 Collaborative since 2023. Both initiatives aim to expand college access, persistence and degree completion in computer science and engineering, particularly for women-identifying students, who make up roughly 20 percent of students enrolled in those programs.