WOODLAND, CA (MPG) – Yolo County needs your help creating high quality jobs for underserved residents. We request partners and stakeholders write Letters of Support, and employers provide Letters of Commitment to hire via the Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Good Jobs Challenge funding. Your support will substantially serve Yolo County’s Workforce Innovation Board (WIB) efforts to secure funding from the EDA, creating access to high quality jobs for our underserved populations and enabling local economic opportunities. The deadline to submit is February 5, 2022.

The EDA specifically discourages form letters. Please follow their suggestions for your Letter of Support or Commitment:

The overall project goal is to deliver a coordinated digital skills pipeline from historically underserved populations across our region to high quality jobs. The strength of this proposal will include the linking together of a vibrant network of community-based organizations, skill building activities and training entities securely attached to employer needs while ensuring access to the community members most in need:

Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) sector, crossing key sectors of our regional economy aligned with the regional CEDS Comprehensive Economic Development, the Greater Sacramento Region Prosperity Strategy;

Food and Agriculture, Life Sciences and Future Mobility addressing current skills gaps with the development of clear career pathways for high demand quality jobs in ICT our region’s key target industry cluster.

Letters of Support or Commitment can be sent to either of the following:

Angelina Olweny, Valley Vision at [email protected]
Sacramento Employment and Training Agency
925 Del Paso Blvd., Suite 100
Sacramento, CA 95815
Attn: Roy Kim

For information on the Workforce Board program, please visit its website, or contact Elaine Lytle, WIB Director, at [email protected] or Erica Johnson, HHSA Program Coordinator, at [email protected] or (530) 631-2289.