WORKER EQUITY INITIATIVE RESOURCES
AFDC: Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Grant program that is a part of the Social Security Act of 1935 that provides cash welfare payments for needy children who have been deprived of parental support or care.
AFL-CIO: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial OrganizationsWorks to ensure all working people are treated fairly, with family-supporting wages and benefits, safe jobs, dignity, and equal opportunities by helping people acquire valuable skills and job-readiness for the current economy.
AFSCME: American Federation of State, Country and Municipal Employees
Union comprised of a diverse group of people committed to public service and advocacy for fairness in the workplace, safety on the job, fair wages, good benefits, and a secure retirement.
AJCC: America's Job Center of California
Provides a comprehensive range of no-cost employment and training services for employers and job seekers. Collaboration of local, state, private, and public entities that provide comprehensive and innovative employment services and resources to meet the needs of the California workforce.
CalFresh: California Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Branding of SNAP in California. CalFresh is for people with low-income who meet federal income eligibility rules and want to add to to their budget to put healthy and nutritious food on the table
Cal/OSHA or DOSH: California Division of Occupational Safety and Health
Protects and improves the health and safety of working individuals in California and the safety of passengers riding on elevators, amusement rides, and tramways.
CALPIA: California Prison Industry Authority
Provides productive work assignments for approximately 7,000 offenders within the CDCR institutions by training offenders with job skills, good work habits, and basic education and job support in the community.
CalWORKS: California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids
Branding of TANF in California. CalWORKS is a public assistance program that provides cash aid and services to eligible families that have a child(ren) in the home.
CBO: Community Based Organizations
Nonprofit groups that are often made up of community members who experience first hand the needs within their neighborhoods and work at a local level to improve the lives of residents.
CCC: California Community Colleges
California's community colleges are at the forefront in combating income inequality and are trailblazers in supporting social and economic mobility. Each year, they provide hundreds of thousands of students with the career education and training needed to secure good-paying jobs.
CCEDA: California Community and Economic Development Association
Advances the field of community economic development through training and continuing education, technical assistance, and advocacy on public policy.
CDCR: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Agency of the California government that is responsible for the operation of the California state prison and parole systems.
CDM: Consensus Decision Making
Participatory model of decision making that enables a group to share power and generate agreements by respecting the contributions of all group participants.
CETA: Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
Passed by congress in 1973 to consolidate many of the existing federal job training programs to aid unemployed, underemployed, and disadvantaged individuals by funding state and local government services such as on-the-job training, classroom training, and public service employment. The act was replaced by JTPA in 1982.
CTE: Career Technical Education
Programs that involve a sequence of courses that integrate core academic knowledge with technical and occupational skills to provide individuals a pathway to postsecondary education and careers.
CWDB: California Workforce Development Board
Works to improve the workforce system in California through policy development, workforce support and innovation, and performance assessment, measurement and reporting. Established by WIA in 1998.
DAPO: Division of Adult Parole Operation
Division of CDCR that protects the community by enabling parole agents to serve an active role in the local community's public safety plans while providing a range of programs and services that offer state supervised parolees the opportunity for change, encouraging, and assisting them in their effort to reintegrate into the community.
DOL: U.S. Department of Labor
Administers federal labor laws to ensure workers' rights to fair, safe, and healthy working conditions, including minimum hourly wage and overtime pay, protection against employment discrimination, and unemployment insurance. Definition from USAGov
DOR: Department of Rehabilitation
The California Department of Rehabilitation works in partnership with consumers and other stakeholders to provide services and advocacy resulting in employment, independent living, and equality for individuals with disabilities.
DRP: Division of Rehabilitation Program
Division of CDCR that aims to facilitate the successful reintegration of the individuals in our care back to their communities equipped with the tools to be drug-free, healthy, and employable members of society by providing education, treatment, rehabilitative, and restorative justice programs, all in a safe and humane environment.
ECJ: Equity, Climate, Jobs
The California Workforce Development Board High Road framework approach, in which equity involves advancing economic opportunity, climate involves building economic and environmental resilience, and jobs involves delivering skills for quality jobs.
EDD: Employment Development Department
The Employment Development Department is one of the largest state departments with employees at hundreds of service locations throughout California. They connect millions of job seekers and employers in an effort to build the economy of the Golden State. Within LWDA.
ETP: Employment Training Panel
The agency provides business services, including funds for workforce development, in California. Within LWDA.
HPOG: Health Profession Opportunity Grant
Provides education, training, and support services to low-income individuals and TANF recipients in the healthcare field to help secure positions that are sustainable and present the opportunity for job growth.
HRTP: High Road Training Partnership
Aim to create economically resilient and competitive communities by centering focus on equity, sustainability and job quality.
IBPS: Interest Based Problem Solving
Method of issue resolution that addresses individual and group differences and encourages participants to work together to reach agreements by remaining creative and flexible.
JTPA: Job Training Partnership Act
Became the successor of CETA in 1982 and is a federally funded employment and training program for disadvantaged adults and youth, older workers, and displaced workers. The act was repealed by WIA in 1998.
LWDA: Labor & Workforce Development Agency
Works to protect and improve the well-being of California's current and future workforce.
MOU: Memorandum of Understanding
Document that is required of an agency when an application for funds includes an explicit non-financial collaboration with partnering organizations, that demonstrates that the organizations have consulted and coordinated responsibilities for their grant activities.
NDLON: National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Works to improve the lives of day laborers, migrants, and low-wage workers by building leadership and power among those facing injustice so they can challenge inequality and expand labor, civil and political rights.
OJT: On-the-Job Training
On-the-Job training means training that is given to a paid employee while they are engaged in productive work and that provides knowledge and skills essential to the performance on the job. OJT incentivizes employers to hire and train skilled workers through reimbursement for their efforts. Often funded through WIOA, nonprofits, or worker centers.
SEED: Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development
Funded by the CWDB, SEED provides micro-grants and entrepreneurial training to immigrants who are social entrepreneurs to support them in starting a small business aimed at addressing a social problem or community need.
SNAP E&T: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training
Helps SNAP participants gain skills and find work that moves them forward to self-sufficiency through access to training and support services.
TANF: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Provides grant funds to state programs including child care assistance, job preparation, and work assistance, to provide families with financial assistance and support services.
TDL: Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics
Involves the planning, management, and movement of people, materials, and goods by road, pipeline, air, rail, water and related professional support services such as transportation infrastructure planning and management, logistics services, mobile equipment and facility maintenance. Description from: Nebraska Department of Education
UFCW: United Food and Commercial Workers
Labor union made up of 1.3 million workers in the U.S. and Canada.
WD: Workforce Development
Supports workers in training for, connecting to jobs, and thriving in careers to create, sustain, and retain a viable workforce, and help local businesses grow.
WED: Workforce and Economic Development
Program of the California Labor Federation that promotes prosperity-driven workforce development and economic development practices, policies and programs and empowers workers by creating HRTPs and assisting unions in responding to economic and labor market changes.
WIA: Workforce Investment Act
Federal act that provides workforce investment activities at state and local levels that increase employment, retention, wages, and occupational skill attainment to improve the quality of the workforce. The act was active from 1998 until 2014 when it was superseded by WIOA.
WIOA: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
Federal act that was passed in 2014 that supersedes WIA and helps job seekers access employment, education, training, and support services to help Americans, such as youth and individuals with barriers to employment, to have access to high quality jobs and careers and to help employers hire and retain skilled workers. WIOA is designed to increase coordination among federal workforce development and related programs.
Grant program that is a part of the Social Security Act of 1935 that provides cash welfare payments for needy children who have been deprived of parental support or care.
AFL-CIO: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial OrganizationsWorks to ensure all working people are treated fairly, with family-supporting wages and benefits, safe jobs, dignity, and equal opportunities by helping people acquire valuable skills and job-readiness for the current economy.
AFSCME: American Federation of State, Country and Municipal Employees
Union comprised of a diverse group of people committed to public service and advocacy for fairness in the workplace, safety on the job, fair wages, good benefits, and a secure retirement.
AJCC: America's Job Center of California
Provides a comprehensive range of no-cost employment and training services for employers and job seekers. Collaboration of local, state, private, and public entities that provide comprehensive and innovative employment services and resources to meet the needs of the California workforce.
CalFresh: California Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Branding of SNAP in California. CalFresh is for people with low-income who meet federal income eligibility rules and want to add to to their budget to put healthy and nutritious food on the table
Cal/OSHA or DOSH: California Division of Occupational Safety and Health
Protects and improves the health and safety of working individuals in California and the safety of passengers riding on elevators, amusement rides, and tramways.
CALPIA: California Prison Industry Authority
Provides productive work assignments for approximately 7,000 offenders within the CDCR institutions by training offenders with job skills, good work habits, and basic education and job support in the community.
CalWORKS: California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids
Branding of TANF in California. CalWORKS is a public assistance program that provides cash aid and services to eligible families that have a child(ren) in the home.
CBO: Community Based Organizations
Nonprofit groups that are often made up of community members who experience first hand the needs within their neighborhoods and work at a local level to improve the lives of residents.
CCC: California Community Colleges
California's community colleges are at the forefront in combating income inequality and are trailblazers in supporting social and economic mobility. Each year, they provide hundreds of thousands of students with the career education and training needed to secure good-paying jobs.
CCEDA: California Community and Economic Development Association
Advances the field of community economic development through training and continuing education, technical assistance, and advocacy on public policy.
CDCR: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Agency of the California government that is responsible for the operation of the California state prison and parole systems.
CDM: Consensus Decision Making
Participatory model of decision making that enables a group to share power and generate agreements by respecting the contributions of all group participants.
CETA: Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
Passed by congress in 1973 to consolidate many of the existing federal job training programs to aid unemployed, underemployed, and disadvantaged individuals by funding state and local government services such as on-the-job training, classroom training, and public service employment. The act was replaced by JTPA in 1982.
CTE: Career Technical Education
Programs that involve a sequence of courses that integrate core academic knowledge with technical and occupational skills to provide individuals a pathway to postsecondary education and careers.
CWDB: California Workforce Development Board
Works to improve the workforce system in California through policy development, workforce support and innovation, and performance assessment, measurement and reporting. Established by WIA in 1998.
DAPO: Division of Adult Parole Operation
Division of CDCR that protects the community by enabling parole agents to serve an active role in the local community's public safety plans while providing a range of programs and services that offer state supervised parolees the opportunity for change, encouraging, and assisting them in their effort to reintegrate into the community.
DOL: U.S. Department of Labor
Administers federal labor laws to ensure workers' rights to fair, safe, and healthy working conditions, including minimum hourly wage and overtime pay, protection against employment discrimination, and unemployment insurance. Definition from USAGov
DOR: Department of Rehabilitation
The California Department of Rehabilitation works in partnership with consumers and other stakeholders to provide services and advocacy resulting in employment, independent living, and equality for individuals with disabilities.
DRP: Division of Rehabilitation Program
Division of CDCR that aims to facilitate the successful reintegration of the individuals in our care back to their communities equipped with the tools to be drug-free, healthy, and employable members of society by providing education, treatment, rehabilitative, and restorative justice programs, all in a safe and humane environment.
ECJ: Equity, Climate, Jobs
The California Workforce Development Board High Road framework approach, in which equity involves advancing economic opportunity, climate involves building economic and environmental resilience, and jobs involves delivering skills for quality jobs.
EDD: Employment Development Department
The Employment Development Department is one of the largest state departments with employees at hundreds of service locations throughout California. They connect millions of job seekers and employers in an effort to build the economy of the Golden State. Within LWDA.
ETP: Employment Training Panel
The agency provides business services, including funds for workforce development, in California. Within LWDA.
HPOG: Health Profession Opportunity Grant
Provides education, training, and support services to low-income individuals and TANF recipients in the healthcare field to help secure positions that are sustainable and present the opportunity for job growth.
HRTP: High Road Training Partnership
Aim to create economically resilient and competitive communities by centering focus on equity, sustainability and job quality.
IBPS: Interest Based Problem Solving
Method of issue resolution that addresses individual and group differences and encourages participants to work together to reach agreements by remaining creative and flexible.
JTPA: Job Training Partnership Act
Became the successor of CETA in 1982 and is a federally funded employment and training program for disadvantaged adults and youth, older workers, and displaced workers. The act was repealed by WIA in 1998.
LWDA: Labor & Workforce Development Agency
Works to protect and improve the well-being of California's current and future workforce.
MOU: Memorandum of Understanding
Document that is required of an agency when an application for funds includes an explicit non-financial collaboration with partnering organizations, that demonstrates that the organizations have consulted and coordinated responsibilities for their grant activities.
NDLON: National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Works to improve the lives of day laborers, migrants, and low-wage workers by building leadership and power among those facing injustice so they can challenge inequality and expand labor, civil and political rights.
OJT: On-the-Job Training
On-the-Job training means training that is given to a paid employee while they are engaged in productive work and that provides knowledge and skills essential to the performance on the job. OJT incentivizes employers to hire and train skilled workers through reimbursement for their efforts. Often funded through WIOA, nonprofits, or worker centers.
SEED: Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development
Funded by the CWDB, SEED provides micro-grants and entrepreneurial training to immigrants who are social entrepreneurs to support them in starting a small business aimed at addressing a social problem or community need.
SNAP E&T: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training
Helps SNAP participants gain skills and find work that moves them forward to self-sufficiency through access to training and support services.
TANF: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Provides grant funds to state programs including child care assistance, job preparation, and work assistance, to provide families with financial assistance and support services.
TDL: Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics
Involves the planning, management, and movement of people, materials, and goods by road, pipeline, air, rail, water and related professional support services such as transportation infrastructure planning and management, logistics services, mobile equipment and facility maintenance. Description from: Nebraska Department of Education
UFCW: United Food and Commercial Workers
Labor union made up of 1.3 million workers in the U.S. and Canada.
WD: Workforce Development
Supports workers in training for, connecting to jobs, and thriving in careers to create, sustain, and retain a viable workforce, and help local businesses grow.
WED: Workforce and Economic Development
Program of the California Labor Federation that promotes prosperity-driven workforce development and economic development practices, policies and programs and empowers workers by creating HRTPs and assisting unions in responding to economic and labor market changes.
WIA: Workforce Investment Act
Federal act that provides workforce investment activities at state and local levels that increase employment, retention, wages, and occupational skill attainment to improve the quality of the workforce. The act was active from 1998 until 2014 when it was superseded by WIOA.
WIOA: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
Federal act that was passed in 2014 that supersedes WIA and helps job seekers access employment, education, training, and support services to help Americans, such as youth and individuals with barriers to employment, to have access to high quality jobs and careers and to help employers hire and retain skilled workers. WIOA is designed to increase coordination among federal workforce development and related programs.
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