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Orange County Recgionol Plan Orange County (OC) has been identified by the state as a single economic sub - region and singular regional planning unit (RPU). There are three local boards within the OC RPU. The Orange County Regional Plan (OC Regional Plan) has been developed with collaborative input of the local boards and key regional partners and stakeholders. Implementation commitments and partner roles are described and detailed within this regional plan. The engagement of partners has been a priority for the region in an effort to align workforce, education, and businesses to foster a comprehensive workforce system that is responsive to demand- driven needs in the region. This OC Regional Plan is focused on constructing a regional training, education, and workforce architecture that aligns with the Orange County regional labor market and California State Plan policy objectives. Individuals will access and experience this regional workforce architecture primarily through local service delivery efforts outlined in the local plan included as part of the OC Regional Plan. The overarching Orange County Regional Plan vision Is a large -scale movement that will address industry identified skills gaps, employment, education, workforce, economic development, and poverty challenges In the region through assessment and strategic alignment of the local workforce system partners' regional goals, policies, practice, and service delivery. This plan seeks to build sector strategies, support career pathways /regional sector pathways, and foster strategic regional partnerships during the 2017.2020 program years by working toward the following overarching regional goals: Specific strategies and implementation processes are described in detail in the plan. Generally strategies will aim to: Maximize efficiencies and innovations in the workforce development system Target Manufacturing, Healthcare, Information Technology and Hospitality and Tourism as key industries that will drive demand for middle skill occupations in the region Enhance access to workforce development services offered by all partners that will address skills /labor gaps Develop a comprehensive continuum of career pathway resources that support a multiple entry point system- no wrong door for clients in need for varying services Align, coordinate, and integrate workforce /education programs and services to economize and leverage limited resources to provide the right services to customers based on particular and unique needs Target areas of Orange County that exhibit high concentrations of unemployment and low income (Red Zones) ❖ Development of Regional Sector Pathways to Increase, expand, and improve programs that create opportunities for all, including those with barriers to employment such as English Language Learners Orange County has a dynamic, diverse and industrious population that is poised to emerge as a major center for economic growth. While existing partnerships between local boards, businesses, educators and other stakeholders have supported the region adequately thus far, the next phase in Orange County's economic and workforce development history will be heavily influenced by the policy and planning decisions made today. Page VII 19D -15