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Request for Approval <br /> Adult and Dislocated Worker Career Services Provider <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 /> 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 /> Page 3 of 7 <br />