P.O.W.E.R. Collaborative Network
Meeting Summary
June 11, 2008The Los Angeles Urban League’s Business and Career WorkSource Center conducted an outstanding P.O.W.E.R. Collaborative Network (PCN) JUNE 2008 monthly meeting. The agenda presented some the most useful information for job development and training resources. The roundtable and network of PCN members highlighted a large variety of job and training resources that provided no excuses for being able to help our clients in need of human services.
In addition, please allow us to extend our most gracious appreciation to Elainea S. Robbins, Employment & Business Services Manager of the Los Angeles Urban League Business & Career WorkSource Center for delivering a complete meeting for the PCN members. We are greatly pleased to receive the support and hospitality of Antoinette Anderson, Director, Leslie Belts, Dwayne Price, and Anita Wallace. Thank you for sharing the exciting and inspiring Los Angeles Urban League’s video We Can Do This, describing how we can accomplish community improvement through building partnerships.
Connie Chai Scholl, Special Project Managers, Orange County Workforce Investment Board gave extremely vital information on how to develop geographic concentrations of interconnected companies for better job delivery practices. These are generally called cluster groups of companies determined to share similar employment patterns. It makes it easier to leverage job and training programs from properly designed clusters. Ms. Scholl covered a considerable amount of valued information including the differences between geographical, sectored, horizontal and vertical clusters of interconnected businesses. To reach Ms. Scholl, the email address is: connie.scholl@hcs.ocgov.com
Tommy Randle, Partnership Specialist, and Angela Behrens, Recruiting Coordinator representing the US Census Bureau shared the ten year affects on our political representation and direct allocation of billions of dollars in government funding. Resulting from the constitutional ten year census, every year, more than $300 billion in federal funds are awarded to states and communities based on census data results. That is more than $3 trillion over a 10-year period. Also, there are a generous number of jobs available to make the count happen as accurately as possible, including Local Census Office Manager, Assistant Manager for Field Operations, Assistant Manager for Administration, Assistant Manager for Recruiting, Assistant Manager for Quality Assurance, Assistant Manager for Technology, and Field Operation Supervisors just to name a few. To reach our US Census Bureau presenters, there respective email addresses are for Mr. Randle, Tommy.Randle@CENSUS2010.GOV and Ms. Behrens, Angela.Behrens@CENSUS2010.GOV
The South Los Angeles Healthy Marriage Demonstration Project received a large and positive response from the PCN members in attendance at the June meeting. Tanya McDonald, Arcelia Sandoval and Barbara Lynn provided a compelling program overview on why marriage matters. It crosses over to our social health, children’s achievement and overall social impact including the work performance of employees. For more information the web site is www.california-marriage.org. Ms. Arcelia Sandoval is the program’s Community Outreach Specialist and her email address is: asandoval@picservices.org.
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The next PCN meeting is Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 10 AM – Noon. Our host is the Los Angeles Job Corps, 217 West 11th Street, 2nd floor, Los Angeles, CA 9015. Our meeting coordinator is Jalonn Harrison, (213) 741-5384.
PCN Meeting Attendees for June 2008
Angela Bahrens, US Census Bureau
Anita Wallace, Los Angeles Urban League
Anthony Jackson, Los Angeles Police Department
Antoinette Anderson, Los Angeles Urban League
April Lawrence, US Congressional Office of Representatives, Maxine Waters
Arcelia Sandoval, Personal Involvement Center, Healthy Marriage
Barbara Kendrick-Lynn, P.I.C.
Barbara Lynn, Personal Involvement Center, Healthy Marriage
Bernard Edwards, Let’s Take A Look Enterprises, Inc.
Bill Johnson, PathPoint, formerly Work Training Programs
Brad Carson, Los Angeles County Probation
Cathy Farrar, Los Angeles Job Corps
Cedric Jones, TMG Global Strategies
Clarence Espinosa, Los Angeles World Airports
Cleon Joseph, Los Angeles Police Department
Cnstelyn Hazen, Clarita Career College
Connie Scholl, Count of Orange/Orange County Workforce Investment Board
Darryl Fisher, State of CA Employment Development Department
Dean Jones, Southland Partnership Corporation / P.O.W.E.R. Collaborative Network
Deidra Vandiergriff, New Directions, Inc.
Deserine Estrada, Los Angeles Unified School District
Dinah White, CA Employment Development Department
Duffy Leahy, Volunteers of America
Dwayne Price, Los Angeles Urban League
Eboni Bryant, Goodwill Industries
Elainea Robbins, Los Angeles Urban League
Elnora Ragland, Broad Spectrum Community Development Corporation
Erick Cerda, Los Angeles County Probation
Gail Coyne, East Los Angeles College-Career Advancement Academy
Gene Persip, Community Build, Inc.
Henry Brown, WLCAC
Jalonn Harrison, Los Angeles Job Corps
Jean Franklin, United Job Creation Council
Jessica Perras, LA County Department of Public Social Services
Joseph Rouzan, Los Angeles Community Development Department
K.W. Tulloss, Crystal Stairs Inc.
Kenneth Tyler, LA County Department of Public Social Services
Ketren Williams Tolbert, KWT – Karing with Tenderness
Kim Brown, LA Community Development Department
Lanette Ramirez, Didi Hirsch CMHC
Laura Ramirez, East Los Angeles College
LaVonté Jackson, Goodwill, Serving the People of Los Angeles County
Leslie Belt, Los Angeles Urban League
Linda Miles, Los Angeles Unified School District-CTE
Liz Rodgers, East Los Angeles Regional Center
Lois Jean Hill, CCYF
Loretta Jackson, Broad Spectrum Community Development Corporation
Luz Ross, LA County Department of Public Social Services, Title V
Lynette Johnson, LA County Housing
Maria Mata, Title V Community and Senior Service Los Angeles County
Marisha Cole, Workplace Hollywood
Maritza Sosa, City of Los Angeles, Commission for Children, Youth and their Families (CYF)
Pat Stitels, Lutheran Social Services of Southern California
Patricia Simpson, LA County Department of Public Social Services, Region I GROW
Perlita Pulido, Staples Center Nokia Theatre
Rachel Maldonado Centeno, OFS (Duty Free Shops) NA
Regina Lee, El Camino College – EOPS/CalWORKS/CARE
Rian Acklin, Doyle McIntosh Center
Robert Hamm, Los Angeles Unified School District – Maintenance and Operations
Robert Hicks, TMG Global Strategies
Robert Rubin, VVCDC’
Rocio Flores-Migica, Los Angeles County Community Development Commission
Ryan Dennis, TMG Global Strategies
Sarah Crowley, Covenant House California
Sheila Wiley, Jobing.com
Tami Jones, Sparkletts, a brand of DS Waters of America
Tanya McDonald, Personal Involvement Center, Healthy Marriage
Tommy Randle, US Census Bureau
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PCN started in January 2001, focused on job coordination for community residents in order to assist in public & private sector work placement. The PCN members are community builders serving to identify, nurture, & mobilize local assets by enhanced networking to rejuvenate economies, strengthen business investments, & ultimately build up civil society. The PCN meets monthly sharing job recruitment, funding, training, workforce projects, & other related topics at various member locations.
P.O.W.E.R. - Partnership Opportunities With Economic/Educational Resources