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What’s New

Occupational and Physical Therapy Jobs

Employment in Occupational Therapist Aides and Assistants and Physical Therapist Aides and Assistants occupations is expected to grow much faster than average; almost 200 new and replacement jobs are projected through 2012 in the South Central Region. More++

Green Economy

Based on a 2008 survey of Central Valley businesses in energy, building and design services, engineering and environmental services, as well as government and public administration, over 79% of employers indicated that the green economy will be important in focusing their future products and services. More++

HVAC Occupations

California’s long-term energy goals call for transforming heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) to ensure optimal energy performance for the state’s climate. By 2014, over 20,000 people will be employed in these occupations in Los Angeles County. More++

"The Centers of Excellence have the rare ability to take abstract research data and create actionable findings that drive innovative programs, courses and curriculum for the 21st Century."

Josh Williams
Principal Researcher
BW Research Partnership

Our Partners

The Power of Partnerships

Building collaborations and capacity for community colleges

More and more community colleges and industry partners see the Centers of Excellence as the go-to source for information and data on emerging workforce needs. We work hand-in-hand with a host of industry associations and labor market data partners to produce our scans and customized reports. Our collaborations with these partners assure that our information is credible and up-to-date. These joint ventures connect employers and workforce organizations directly with community colleges to work on new or updated curriculum, define career pathways, and guide students on the path to promising jobs and careers of the future.


Our strategic partners include:

California Employment Development Department (EDD)

The California Employment Development Department’s (EDD) Labor Market Information Division (LMID) is charged with collecting, analyzing, and publishing thousands of statistics on the state’s more than 1 million employers and 17 million workers. Working with LMID’s network of regional Labor Market Consultants and through the LMI division headquarters in Sacramento, the Centers of Excellence have direct access to the latest in statewide and regional analysis of California’s employment data, including industry and occupational forecasting, employment trends, and occupational wages. In addition, the Employment Development Department has furnished the COEs customized data sets to further assist in identifying growth industries and occupations for study.


Economic Strategy Panel

The Economic Strategy Panel engages in objective and collaborative planning that examines California’s economic regions, industry clusters, and cross-regional economic issues. The Panel manages the California Regional Economies Project, a research effort to provide state and local economic and workforce development organizations with information about each regional economy and labor market in California. Through a regional perspective, the Regional Economies Project helps the Centers of Excellence better understand how the economy is changing, where the changes are concentrated, and what catalysts and conditions are causing those changes. We can also see how change in one region affects other regions and the state as a whole.

Partners in the Regional Economies project include the California Workforce Investment Board, the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, and the Labor Market Information Division of the California Employment Development Department, which provides the employment and occupational data used by the Project.


California Workforce Investment Board and Local Workforce Investment Areas

The California  Workforce Investment Board (C-WIB) is the policy and oversight agency for California’s 49 Local Workforce Investment Areas (LWIAs), which are administered by area Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs). Local WIBs are key partners for the Centers of Excellence in identifying common high growth sectors, in researching occupations in demand, and in leveraging training resources with the community colleges. The WIBs include Board members from private sector businesses, organized labor, community-based organizations, local government agencies, and local education agencies.


California Association for Local Economic Development (CALED)

Economic Development Associations include counties, cities, state and federal agencies, economic development corporations, and economic development professionals. These entities are useful to Centers of Excellence in determining the economic impact of business attraction, expansion, and retention activities as they relate to business and industry training needs.  CALED, the statewide membership organization, supports economic development professionals through information, technical assistance, training, education, and research to its members.

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