Workforce & Education
COYN focuses its programmatic efforts in the workforce and education sectors in order to ensure the success of opportunity youth.
Initiatives
BayTAY Initiative
BAY TAY initiative is to assist local workforce development boards build capacity in their efforts to serve Opportunity Youth. Five Workforce Development Boards were selected to participate in the BayTay Technical Assistance initiative. They include:
- San Jose
- Alameda County
- San Francisco
- Contra County
- NOVA
Site Development
COYN is currently working on developing work within Stockton, Sacramento, and Merced
Publications
Tracking Infrastructure Investments in California and L.A. County
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), enacted in 2021 and 2022, respectively, supported thousands of projects across the country to improve transportation, energy, and water systems. The laws generated intense interest in leveraging these investments to expand career opportunities for people often left behind in the labor market. But infrastructure dollars flow from so many federal departments, support such a wide range of activities, and go to such a wide variety of organizations that it is difficult to see the full picture. Moreover, the laws largely sidelined the federal, state, and local entities that are most knowledgeable about education, training, and job placement.
These reports aim to demystify the infrastructure landscape for state and local leaders so they can narrow the task of “infrastructure workforce development” into more manageable pieces. What are the subsectors within the infrastructure field? Who are key actors, and how do they relate to each other? What federal, state, and local policies and funding patterns shape the incentives for different actors in a given subsector? This analysis reviews federal awards to entities in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors in California and the Los Angeles area.