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Ana WDB's strategic plan rests not only on strengths of its current industrial base, but also the demands of emerging business and economic trends, Finally, Santa Ana's vision is sensitive to the needs of its unique demographics and regional mix. As a major supplier of workforce for surrounding communities, Santa Ana is firmly embedded in its regional and cluster matrix. Santa Ana's implementation of the vision entails enhancing business and supports social and educational services and access to them, mostly though not exclusively through its WORK Center and WDB, An effective efficient administration is necessary to deliver the services that make each of these strategies effective. The Santa Ana WDB's overall strategies: 1. Identify regional clusters most likely to create new jobs in which. Santa Ana's workforce can participate and the foundational requirements of such jobs; 2. Expand small business development support as a creator of new jobs and method for growing the local tax base; 3. Educate Santa Ana's current and future workforce through classroom pre - training and training activities, plus on- the -job training and workforce skill enhancement activities; 4. Offer career pathway programs for both unemployed and employed adults and youth; S, Increase access to jobs for disconnected and underserved populations, especially youth; 6. Organize, integrate and support, social and other services through the WDB's network of partnerships, volunteer organizations, and established institutional resources; and 7, Assure funding from all public, private, and other sources in support: of its programs. D. ONE -STOP SYSTEM, SERVICES The AJCC, through its central location at the Santa. Ana Regional Transportation Center (hereinafter referred to as the Santa Ana W /0 /R/K Center), 1000 E. Santa Ana Blvd„ and its satellite facilities, shall provide and /or coordinate WIOA services to individuals, providing them with the necessary skills to participato in building a world -class workforce in Santa Ana, In January of 1996, the Santa Ana W /O /R/K Center opened its doors as the first universal access One -Stop in the County of Orange designed to meet the employment placement assistance and training needs of the community through workforce and economic development. The W /O /R/K Center offers the community a variety of informational, employment and training services based on individual needs. Those needs are met by the combined efforts of the W /O /R/K Center partners which include the Employment Development. Department (EDD), Orange County Social. Services Agency (SSA), Rancho Santiago Community College District (RSCCD), State Department of Rehabilitation, Boys & Girls Club of Santa Ana, City of Santa Ana Economic Development Department, and several other agencies. The W /O /R /K Center is located in the city of Santa Ana which ranks as the fourth densest city in the entire nation. Santa Ana's workforce faces unique challenges based on its population 'base, its industrial growth, and its economic position. Santa -Ana is the second oldest and second most populous incorporated city in Orange County compared to Anaheim, and its median household income ranks nearly the same, near the 'bottom of incorporated Orange County cities. However, fruitful comparison ends here. In racial and ethnic composition, Santa Ana's population is over 100% more Latino, and nearly 50% less Asian American and African American. Far more of Santa Ana's 25D -7