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<br />Page 3 of 7 <br /> <br />Request for Approval <br />Adult and Dislocated Worker Career Services Provider <br /> <br />Local Chief Elected Official Statement <br />A Local Board or administrative entity that seeks approval to be an Adult and Dislocated Worker <br />Career Services Provider within an America’s Job Center of CaliforniaSM must provide a <br />statement from the local CEO indicating his/her request as well as responses to the following <br />questions. <br />Please provide responses to the following items on a separate document: <br />1. What factors guided the Local Board’s or administrative entity’s decision to submit this <br />application to be an Adult and Dislocated Worker Career Services Provider within the <br />Local Area? <br />The Santa Ana Workforce Development Board and the Mayor and city Councilmembers <br />takes the strong position that its one stop office, the Santa Ana WORK Center is the best <br />alternative to provide high quality Adult and Dislocated Worker services to its local <br />residents and surrounding cities within the Orange County region. Before one-stop <br />operations were written into the regulations under the Workforce Investment Act, City <br />Council, its workforce board, and leadership at the local level from the Employment <br />Development Department, Department of Rehabilitation, Santa Ana College, Social Services <br />Agency, and the city’s Economic Development Department strategized and developed the <br />Santa Ana WORK Center. Thru co-location and staff working together to provide workforce <br />and education services to the unemployed, underemployed, or new to the workforce <br />services have been better coordinated with the collective customers better served. The <br />WORK Center has been collaborating since 1996 and has passed or exceeded WIA <br />performance goals while also passing financial and program review by EDD and OIG in <br />addition to regular single audits by a third party audit firm. <br /> <br />The WORK Center has created an organizational model that maximizes the resources of <br />many partners – employers, education, government and non-profit organizations –in <br />workforce planning and services to the community. The staff and administration of the <br />WORK Center is very agile in meeting the needs of the community whether it is the clients <br />utilizing the office to businesses needing assistance with recruiting or downsizing. From <br />quickly adjusting its delivery of service due to the COVID 19 pandemic, to developing an <br />incumbent worker training program for a local medical device manufacturer, or <br />coordinating and planning a regional youth job fair, to developing and hosting an bi-annual <br />manufacturing day to help local manufacturers replenish its retiring workforce and promote <br />the livable wages the manufacturing sector has to offer. The WORK Center and all the <br />EXHIBIT 1