More and Better Career Technical Education to Increase Social Mobility and Fuel Regional Economies with Skilled Workers To develop more workforce opportunities and lift low-wage workers into living-wage jobs, California took a bold step in 2016 to create one million more middle-skill workers. At the recommendation of the California Community College Board of Governors, the Governor and Legislature approved the Strong Workforce Program, adding a new annual recurring investment of $248 million to spur career technical education (CTE) in the nation’s largest workforce development system of 113 colleges. California Community College's Strong Workforce Program
Applying for SWP: Local Funds
About the Application
- Applications are created in NOVA. For first time users, of the NOVA system, please contact the strongworkforcehelpdesk@cccco.edu and provide the necessary information. Access to NOVA and a password with then be created for you.
- Any proposal in the NOVA system may be accessed by clicking on Local Share or Regional Share Projects in the left-hand navigation window.
- SCC’s proposals may be accessed by selecting SCC in the institution drop-down menu.
- Create a user account and password in Launchboard at Cal-PASS Plus. This website will provide information to determine outcome metrics.
- Funding requests can be made for industry sectors, across College Career Education, or for a specific program.
- For new funding requests for a specific program, complete the Labor Market (LMI) Request form and submit to your Dean/Manager.
- Dean/Manager forwards an LMI request to Gabriel Meehan, AVP for submission to the Center of Excellence (COE) for labor market data.
- The COE returns LMI within one week indicating that the project is fundable or not fundable.
- While waiting for the LMI report, begin the application process in NOVA.
- Input project title, start date, end date, # of years, project description, and the rationale for the project. Contact information for the project lead as well as other contact information for the lead institution and other participating institutions.
- Select the projects that meet the intent of the 25 SWP task force recommendations (i.e. increasing CE enrollments that lead to successful workforce outcomes)
Task Force Recommendations
- Input LMI, outcome metrics, Task Force recommendations, work plan, and budget by object codes.
- Refer to the Local Share Manual (link on NOVA) for instructions on how to complete the plan.
- "Email Preview PDF" from the preview tab to Gabriel Meehan, AVP for College Approval, and submission to District Office.
- For users who wish to request funds for an existing application, ask the AVP to un-certify the application.
- Then update the existing project application with start date, end date, # of years the project will run. Then complete the budget information by object code with the funding request for the year of application.
- If funds requested exceed funds available, the requests will be ranked based on an ability to meet SWP outcomes as well as the submission date.
- The AVP notifies the relevant dean or manager when the proposal is certified and requests a budget spreadsheet by account codes based on the application in NOVA.
If funds are requested for a full-time position, there will be an additional review process at the college and at the District. This will delay your application process for several weeks.
