UNITE-LA is proud to serve as affiliate lead for the West Coast for Business Leaders United (BLU) and jointly elevate key federal workforce advocacy opportunities with our state network of business organizations. Most recently, UNITE-LA was pleased to elevate a BLU Advocacy letter for business association signatures to urge Congress to continue to fund workforce investments as they moved through the appropriations process last month.

On Oct. 8, Gov. Newsom signed UNITE-LA co-sponsored Assembly Bill 789 (Berman and Cervantes). Joined by eight other leading advocacy organizations in college affordability and student success, this legislative win comes after a year of working with organizations and institutions across the state to develop a student-centered policy.

Two members of UNITE-LA’s team were recently appointed to two key Boards of the CA state Cradle-to-Career Data System (C2C). C2C was named in state legislation to be California’s source of actionable data and research on education, economic and health outcomes for individuals, families and communities.

Join us in welcoming our L.A. City Angeleno Corps Interns, Melody Flores, Stephy Reyes and Emmanuel Yoque, who started their 10-month internships last month.

We graduated our third cohort of Step into Tech participants last month, with 14 of the 15 completing the course! In addition to learning from and engaging with professionals in tech, participants took courses in Networking, Cybersecurity and Data Science through the Cisco Networking Academy. Participants are now continuing with part two, where they have selected one of the pathways above and are taking courses, followed by a test that will earn them a lifetime certification in that pathway, an essential addition to their resume and a true step into a career in tech. We already have one participant who has successfully earned his lifetime certification in Cybersecurity!

A special thanks to our summer Step into Tech partners and volunteers for sharing their time, expertise and experience, and supporting the development of talent our region needs to meet our workforce needs!

Last month, UNITE-LA President Alysia Bell and staff members Amber Chapman and Danielle Corpus traveled to Monterey, CA for California Workforce Association’s Meeting of the Minds 2023 conference. The conference brought together 600 participants with diverse backgrounds to work together to take on the issues surrounding workforce development in California and across the country.

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UNITE-LA CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF IMPACTFUL LEADERSHIP WITH FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES

Program Included Fireside Chat with LASUD Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho

UNITE-LA supported the REAL Education and Workforce Development Committee’s meeting in August, which focused on the committee’s updates on education and workforce-related projects in their various regions.

Last month, UNITE-LA, in partnership with colleagues at John Burton Advocates for Youth (JBAY), led an advocacy meeting with Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-Glendale) to discuss our co-sponsored bill, AB 789.

Last month, UNITE-LA’s National Strategic Partnerships (NSP) team attended the 2023 ACCE Annual Convention.