Last month, the Los Angeles Digital Equity Action League (LA DEAL), convened by UNITE-LA and the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), hosted a Broadband Leaders convening for 10 municipal leaders from across L.A. County, providing a technical training session on permitting through the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) Learning Community.

UNITE-LA’s Workforce Systems Team worked with the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) on a research study for the past year to assess the full cost needs of youth workforce programs in Los Angeles.

In February, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Community Schools Steering Committee (CSSC) finalized the selection and designation of seven schools to join Cohort 6 of the Community Schools Initiative (CSI). These seven schools will join the 63 existing community schools, bringing the LAUSD CSI expansion goal of 70 community schools by the 2025-26 year to fruition! This follows UNITE-LA's efforts to co-create solutions and lead efforts in school recruitment, application revisions, creation of a scoring rubric aligned with the state’s Community Schools Framework, volunteer scorer trainings and the comprehensive scoring of completed applications to guide the CSSC in selecting the seven schools between August and December 2024.

Last month, the L.A. Opportunity Youth Collaborative (OYC), which is co-led by the Alliance for Children’s Rights and UNITE-LA, presented at the City of L.A.'s Workforce Development Board (WDB) Youth Council meeting on the Horizons 32K Strategic Plan.

UNITE-LA is aligning and transforming public systems to achieve education and equity in the L.A. region. Our Systems Change team put together a snapshot of the incredible work done in 2024. Take a look!