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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY <br />Santa Ana's Workforce Investment Board <br />Santa Ana's Workforce Investment Board (WIB) integrates all elements of the community <br />engaged in enhancing the workforce of the City and its surrounding region: education, social <br />services, business, labor, and government. The WIB "braids" Federal funds from the Workforce <br />Investment Act (WIA) with state, local, and grant resources. Through career pathway training, <br />the WIB converts labor market research into actions that expand access to jobs and to improve <br />the quality of the current and future workforce. Santa Ana's WORK (One -Stop) Center <br />exemplifies key aspects of the WIB's vision. <br />This strategic plan lays the foundation for change, identifies challenges that remain unmet <br />and /or are likely to arise, the institutional structure available to meet them, and plans to extend <br />that institutional structure as appropriate. It touches on each of the State Standards in turn. <br />Overview: The Santa Ana WIB Vision and Workforce Analysis <br />Santa Ana's vision rests on integrating current and future resources through its WIB partners. <br />Integration suggests more than partnering or assembling multiple funding sources. It means <br />making certain that all elements of the workforce support system work together to create <br />synergy for its target populations by offering inviting and seamless services, wherever a client <br />enters the system. <br />Santa Ana's vision also embraces the future, as all visions should. Anyone who has simply <br />observed the evolution of the telephone over the past decade understands that technology is <br />explosive. It spawns new industries and clusters and changes old ones. It generates fresh <br />workforce opportunities in the process. The Santa Ana WIB's strategic plan rests not only on <br />strengths of its current industrial base, but also the demands of emerging business and <br />economic trends. <br />Finally, Santa Ana's vision is sensitive to the needs of its unique demographics and regional mix. <br />As a major supplier of workforce for surrounding communities, Santa Ana is firmly embedded in <br />its regional and cluster matrix. To establish those needs, this plan rests on the analysis of the <br />most current data available, provided by government agencies, private studies, and university <br />forecasts. <br />Realizing the Vision: Strategic Directions for the Santa Ana WIB <br />Santa Ana's implementation of the vision entails enhancing business and supports social and <br />educational services and access to them, mostly though not exclusively through its WORK <br />Center and WIB. An effective efficient administration is necessary to deliver the services that <br />make each of these strategies effective. The proposal describes in detail how the Santa Ana <br />WIB makes that happen. Its overall strategies: <br />• Identify regional clusters most likely to create new jobs in which Santa Ana's workforce <br />can participate and the foundational requirements of such jobs; <br />1 <br />19F -5 <br />