Strong Workforce

What is Strong Workforce

Strong Workforce Program: More and Better Career Technical Education to Increase Social Mobility and Fuel Regional Economies with Skilled Workers

To develop more workforce opportunity and lift low-wage workers into living-wage jobs, California took a bold step in 2016 to create one million more middle-skill workers. At the recommendation of the California Community College Board of Governors, the Governor and Legislature approved the Strong Workforce Program, adding a new annual recurring investment of more than $200 million to spur career technical education (CTE) in the nation’s largest workforce development system of 114 community colleges.


2020-2021 SWP Regional Project Proposal Toolkit


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