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Providing a Comprehensive Menu of Services: In order to address the needs of business in distress, the local boards will provide the following as part of our strategic layoff aversion strategy: ✓ . Conducting individual needs assessment of companies "business retention" needs ✓ Assistance with securing tax credits, incentives and cost containment programs ✓ Coordination of utility and technology services ✓ Assistance in accessing public financing programs (local, state and federal) and Industrial Development Bonds ✓ Identification of traditional financing opportunities ✓ Coordination of funding sources, such as the California Employment Training Panel program, that are well suited to providing skills upgrades and retraining of incumbent workers; ✓ Coordinating with educational and job training institutions to satisfy the precise skills needs or one or more businesses ✓ Training (including both traditional and work -based models) for current employees and new workers to make the business better able to compete An example of local layoff aversion strategies in action is a partnership with the California Manufacturers Technology Consulting (CMTC). On behalf of the local boards, the organization links the existing network of business assistance providers In Orange County to local manufacturers, raising awareness of available resources and providing layoff aversion Implementation services. These services have been provided to 15 at -risk Orange County manufacturers that planned to lay -off workers, and it is estimated that 165+ jobs were saved as the results of these efforts. CMTC follows a standard 7 -step plan developed under partnership, which was cited as a best practice in the U.S. GAO publication "Collaborations between Workforce Boards & Employers Helped Meet Local Needs ". 3Eiv. Youth Employment and Training Activities DECLARATION: The local boards serve Orange County at -risk youth through in- school and out -of- school WIOA Young Adult Programs. Services delivered to youth include, but are not limited to the WIOA 14 Elements: 1. Tutoring, study skills training, instruction and evidence -based dropout prevention and recovery strategies 2. Alternative secondary school services, or dropout recovery services, as appropriate 3. Paid & unpaid work experiences with academic and occupational education as a component of the work experience 4, Occupational skills training 5. Education offered concurrently with and in the same context as workforce preparation activities and training for a specific occupation or occupational cluster 6. Leadership development opportunities 7. Supportive services 8. Adult mentoring 9. Follow -up services for no less than 12 months after the completion of participation 10. Comprehensive guidance and counseling 11. Financial literacy education 12. Entrepreneurial skills training 13. Services that provide labor market and employment information about in- demand industry sectors or occupations available in Orange County 14. Activities that help youth prepare for and transition to post- secondary education and training STRATEGY: While Orange County's WIOA eligible youth population faces a wide range of barriers to employment and educational attainment due to background and circumstances, their characteristics are broadly representative of those of WIOA eligible youth throughout the state. The local boards' planned services for at -risk youth include the following targets, as percentages of participants served in the WIOA Young Adult program: Homeless r „z 15 %?, Yquthavlth,Disdblhtie "s . , ' 11i °lo .: Pte hdrit/P.arenM":,. 1`20%' RurfeWa' aYdutHr; Forte ?(outfi 25 ° /a= ° : Hf h School Drm Out :' .. ; . 20 °Zo ` ll Offentle "rs '" 20 °/d '. Other,Bafners.: 15% , IV IV 19D-81 OC Local Plan