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Acting as Chief Elected Official, approve and authorize the Executive Director of the Monterey County Workforce Development Board to execute an agreement with the California Workforce Association for consulting services to participate in the California Prison to Employment Initiative, in an amount not to exceed $60,000, for the period retroactive to October 15, 2018 through June 30, 2019
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
Acting as Chief Elected Official, approve and authorize the Executive Director of the Monterey County Workforce Development Board to execute an agreement with the California Workforce Association for consulting services to participate in the California Prison to Employment Initiative, in an amount not to exceed $60,000, for the period retroactive to October 15, 2018 through June 30, 2019
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
As part of the 2018 State budget process, the California Legislature approved, and Governor Brown signed, legislation which established the Prison to Employment Initiative. The 2018 state budget includes $37 million over three budget years to fund workforce development and reentry services for previously incarcerated and justice-involved individuals. "Justice-involved" refers to individuals who are on parole, probation, mandatory supervision, or post-release community supervision and are supervised by, or are under the jurisdiction of, a county or the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The California Workforce Development Board will make Prison to Employment funds available local workforce development boards to support partnership development and to build or scale up existing programs to serve the needs of the reentry population of California's fourteen regions.
Pursuant to this initiative, the Request for Applications for Phase I, Regional Planning Grants, was released on July 27, 2018 to fund collaborative development of regional partnerships and plans to serve formerly ...
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