To directly assist our federally incarcerated individuals who are currently in a minimum- or low-security federal prison facilities and individuals who are currently located at a californian…

The Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration awarded the California Workforce Development Board a $10.7 million cooperative agreement under the Reentry Employment Opportunities program (CFDA 17.270). The award will fund workforce development services for individuals involved in the federal criminal justice system in California from October 2022 through March 2026.

Key services include providing Multi-Craft Core Curriculum certification training to 550 incarcerated individuals to help them gain industry-recognized credentials and placement in high-road construction careers upon release. The award will also supplement existing reentry programs operated by local workforce development boards to enroll 1,000 justice-involved individuals, with goals of placing 700 in employment and earning credentials for 400. All federal correctional facilities in California will receive licenses for a web-based case management platform and training to begin offering American Job Center referral services to incarcerated individuals. The platform will also integrate referral systems with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and U.S. Probation Office.

To directly assist our federally incarcerated individuals who are currently in a minimum- or low-security federal prison facilities and individuals who are currently located at a californian residential reentry center (RRC). Activities performed - partnering with anti-recidivism coalition, recruit, assess, and train federally incarcerated individuals for multi-craft core curriculum (MC3) certification, recognized by north america's building trades unions (nabtu); - infuse additional resources to top-performing local workforce development areas that serve the highest numbers of federal releases to bolster their existing prison to employment reentry programming and serve additional federally justice-involved individuals - partnering with mother lode workforce development board, create federal workforce assessment digital platform for behind-the-wall workforce case management to serve all federally incarcerated individuals (P2EJOBS.COM) - partnering with california department of corrections and rehabilitation, create and add ajcc referral system into existing digital infrastructures at BOP and U.S. Probation office deliverables - 550 federally incarcerated individuals obtain MC3 certifications via behind-the-wall cohorts for post-release career placements. These individuals will be referred into cwdb's network of high road construction career programs in the areas of their release. - 1000 federally justice-involved individuals enroll in their local workforce development board's existing P2E programs, supplemented with dedicated federal resources. Of these individuals, 700 will enter employment, and 400 will earn industry-recognized credentials. - all federal corrections institutions receive licenses for P2EJOBS.COM, receive training (train-the-trainer) for its use, and use the software to begin ajcc case management services behind-the-walls - BOP and U.S. Probation add an ajcc referral system into their existing digital infrastructure and begin referring federally supervised individuals to dedicated reentry services at their nearest ajcc intended beneficiary 1,550 grant participants and many more participants through P2EJOBS.COM and the P2E referral system in greater LOS angeles, inland empire, greater SAN diego, SAN joaquin valley, and the BAY area subrecipient activities MC3 training and other services for stage 1 and stage 2; create and implement a federally-tailored P2EJOBS.COM platform to be installed and tested in identified federal facilities in california and to provide technical assistance to BOP & RRC staff members on best practices in utilizing this platform; P2E workforce development boards in areas that serve the most federal releases in jurisdictions like LOS angeles, SAN diego, inland empire, SAN joaquin valley, and BAY area to bolster their existing programing and serve participants