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time to satisfy employer requirements for entry-level new hires. Although, WIOA programs have concurrently offered OJT as a training activity, in very few cases have classroom and work -based training been combined using WIOA resources. Working with Sector Partnerships, the local boards will explore opportunities to connect classroom and work -based training so that the education and workforce systems produce more skilled and versatile workers. Collaboration with Apprenticeship Programs: Santiago Canyon Community College (SCC) is one of the only community colleges in Orange County that offers apprenticeship and journeyman training in various trades. The local boards are currently working with SCC on various projects, including apprenticeship and journeyman training programs, which are listed on the State Eligible Training Provider List (ETPL). More specifically, the local boards have included the Electrician/Construction Wiremen (CW) and Journeyman Carpentry courses at SCC on the ETPL. These Apprenticeship /Journeyman programs are approved and registered Department of Industrial Relations /Department of Apprenticeship Standards (DIRIDAS) apprenticeship programs. The availability of these programs have opened opportunities for the local boards to work with unions and for interested job seekers to take advantage of the programs, The local boards have implemented a project with the International Brotherhood of Electrician Workers (IBEW) that assists eligible adults, dislocated workers and incumbent workers with apprenticeship training, skills upgrade training and support services. The skills upgrade training will help to avert layoffs; Increase employability, maintaining or finding employment; and, possibly, lead to an increase in pay. The training is offered through the Electrician Construction Wireman (CW) program at SCC. The local areas are also in the early stages of planning a similar effort with the Carpenters Union. Moving forward, the local boards are seeking to expand opportunities to effectively partner with approved apprenticeship programs, including pre- apprenticeships. While the building trades offer many of the most recognizable apprenticeship programs, working the Orange County Workforce and Economic Development Network, our sector partnerships and directly with the Orange County Labor Federation, the local boards will complete a scan of apprenticeship compatible occupations within the local labor market and develop a cross -walk of these occupations to apprenticeship programs. Programs associated with promising sectors and demand occupations will receive priority. 38111. Rapid Response DECLARATION: The local boards have refined existing approaches to rapid response and business services so that they are fully transformed into proactive business retention and layoff aversion programs. Over the last two decades the local rapid response programs have assisted tens of thousands of workers displaced from hundreds of companies that ceased operations or experienced significant reductions in their workforce. The local boards have designed and implemented rapid response to be a system that is proactive rather than reactive. With this evolution, the local boards' focus is on layoff aversion and business retention. The local boards actively seek to identify businesses in distress and work with local partners to provide assistance with training, cost reduction, financing and other services that will enable success and help avert closure or layoff. STRATEGY: The local boards adhere to strict operating procedures for rapid response activities, highlighted In the onsite presentation provided by OC One -Stop Business Service representatives who plan and coordinate assistance for employers and workers affected by temporary and permanent layoffs. The law requires the provision of rapid response activities in the event of a disaster, mass layoff, plant closing or other events that precipitate substantial increases in the number of unemployed individuals. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) offers protection to workers, their families and communities by requiring employers to provide notice 60 days in advance of covered plant closings and covered mass layoffs. To arrange on -site employertemployee visits and Informational sessions, Business Service staff follow the below process: 1. A WARN notice from the State is sent to the local boards and forwarded to the Business Services Rapid Response Coordinator, or an announcement In local news media is identified. Sometimes a human resources representative will contact the REACT coordinator directly. 2. Within receipt of the WARN, the coordinator initiates Rapid Response services by contacting the company representative to set up an appointment to discuss services. After the initial meeting with the company representative, information meeting(s) are scheduled for the affected workers based on the company's needs. 3. The coordinator contacts partners (such as EDD) to find out their availability for participation, as needed, in accordance with the employer's request. 4. At the information meetings, One -Stop Center brochures and other program services materials are distributed to the affected employees. 5. Employees may be referred to the One -Stop Center for enrollment into the WIOA Dislocated Worker Program. IV OC Local Plan 19D -80