Orange County
Workforce Investment Board
One-Stop System

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SCHOOL-TO-WORK / VISION 2020
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PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
By the year 2020 all Orange County’s youth will be prepared for productive employment in diverse work environments through opportunities developed collaboratively by business, labor, families, and education. Through systemic change, new roles and responsibilities will be assumed by coalition partners to ensure success for youth in continually changing, high skilled high wage careers.

Specific strategies for implementation during this first year of Vision 2020 are:

Vision 2020 Resource Exchange
Joins partners through shared information about the workplace preparation programs in Orange County that support the efforts of the Coalition. Access for the information will be on-line and include school and work based activities.

Professional Development and Training
Design training programs to support the goals of Vision 2020 based on diverse needs of clients and partners.

Local Integrative Projects and Site Support
Provide funding for innovative business/education local partnership projects which will focus on the key strategies of Vision 2020 (school-based, work-based, and connecting activities).


Who should be involved?

Students Teachers Parents / P.T.A. Business / Industry
Community Organizations Labor / C.T.A. School District Administrators Government Agencies
Private Industry Councils Employment Development Dept. Universities Proprietary Schools
Regional Occupational Programs County Office of Education School Boards Professional Organizations
Religious Groups Community Colleges


The Orange County Workforce Investment Act is the lead agency for the Vision 2020 Coalition, and the Orange County Department of Education the fiscal agency. A five year Vision 2020 local partnership grant was awarded to the Coalition by the U.S. Department of Education, with a start date of May 1, 1996. The Coalition is a business-education partnership which is becoming ever more important as we strive to enable students to apply their academic training to their own life experiences. The Vision 2020 Coalition is the County's response to the challenges of the new world of work: fast-paced change, technological innovations, and the need to apply one's own knowledge effectively to be excellent, meet deadlines, address problems, and stay competitive.


Vision 2020 Coalition:
Orange County's twenty-year history of community collaboration has resulted in an emerging coalition of multifaceted partners that support Vision 2020. The Coalition includes nearly 500 concerned individuals from business, labor, parents, students, private industry councils, community based organizations, associations of K-16 education, vocational/student organizations, and city, county, and state government agencies. The members of the Coalition are also supported by nearly 13,000 businesses that supply resources, training, mentoring, shadowing, and job opportunities for youth.


Orange County WIA Vision 2020 related support services:
A major way the Orange County WIA contributes to the Coalition is through the youth oriented WIA programs. The program offers at-risk and economically deprived high school students, and out of school youth (throughout Orange County) pre-employment and work maturities skills training, occupational skills training, subsidized work experience, and job search assistance.


Who to Contact ?
To learn more about Vision 20/20 please contact your local school or Orange County Workforce Investment Act (714) 567-7371 or FAX : (714) 834-7132


Parents or students interested in accessing the Vision 2020 educational services? Please contact Douglas McPhee, Orange County Department of Education or by phone (714) 966-4118 or FAX : (714) 662-7891

If you need to know more about work based learning programs at the state or federal levels, please contact:
1. The State School-To-Career (STC) Internet site for details of the California state program, or
2. The Federal School to Work (STW) initiative Internet site. The federal site covers a broad range of topics, including links to the National Alliance for Business (NAB) and National Employers Leadership Council (NELC). Both organizations are supported by the U.S. Department of Labor, and promote work based learning programs and the school-to-work initiative.

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http://www.stw.ed.gov/

http://goldmine.cde.ca.gov/