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considering or experiencing layoffs to either affect layoff aversion or to minimize <br />adversity during the layoff process. The most impactful effort to date has been the <br />provision of business consulting services directly to local manufacturing firms. These <br />services range from comprehensive business assessments to implementing human <br />capital, financial, and systemic process changes. <br />Additionally, the Santa Ana WIB: <br />• Develops strategies for addressing future dislocation events in the local area <br />• Identifies strategies for averting layoffs in the local;:area <br />• Develops and maintains means of exchanging ill &ffiation among local areas <br />and with the State about potential dislocations * hvailable adjustment <br />assistance <br />• Collects and analyzes information retafi to actual economic dislocations in the <br />local area, potential closings and lay4fs'in the focal area:atld all the various <br />resources that are available to benefit":dislocated workers in'tle local area. <br />• Assists in devising and overseeing <br />local area <br />• Develops strategies for lir <br />retention and recruitment <br />• Contacts pote <br />CaIWORKs pd <br />18. D <br />area's: <br />Ysand <br />local::area, What youth <br />succ'dtVul providers ::of s <br />Section`'(4221 <br />P <br />ities a <br />umbent wbrl., .training in the <br />opment and business <br />se' :%%placement of WIA and <br />opuation and needs in general. Describe <br />hat"Oovide services to the youth in your <br />re'available in your local area? Identify <br />ities. [WIA Section 118(b)(6) and CUIC <br />The growing del ?rtd for a sKJJJpd workforce has called for a fundamental change in how <br />education and ViJC' force ;preparation is delivered in this community. Repeatedly, <br />employers have voiced th?ii. fe6stration and inability to identify skilled workers to fill their <br />job vacancies, while at th6-*same time many young people are unable to qualify for entry <br />level positions or are entering the workforce unprepared. The lack of basic skill and <br />proper workplace preparation also has left young people unable to take advantage of <br />many employment opportunities created by the high-wage and high growth industries. <br />While there are employment and training programs available through the city, these <br />programs tend to be categorically funded, fragmented and with varied eligibility <br />requirements, making it very difficult for the youth to access services. Additionally, these <br />Page 11 of 18 <br />19C-14