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ETPL - A Statewide Advocacy

CCCAOE - April 2025

Rethinking What’s Possible for Cross System Alignment and Equitable Consumer Choice

Adult Schools

Community Colleges

Workforce Development Boards

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Our Team

Laura Bishoff�

QA and Compliance Manager / ETPL Coordinator

South Bay Workforce Investment Board

Lora Jorgensen

Regional Director, Workforce Partnerships

Bay Area Community College Consortium (BACCC)

Director of Career Program Planning & Sierra K16 Collaborative

Columbia College, Sonora

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Emily Graham, MPA

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Jennifer Pesavento, Ed.D.

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Administrator, Instructional Programs

North Orange County ROP

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Plan for this morning�

  • Purpose - To ensure CA’s workforce has access to a full range of Community College training programs offering students livable wage jobs

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  • What is ETPL? WHY is it so Important? What is at stake?
    • Workgroup Formation
    • Recommendations

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  • Advocacy: Phased Approach
    • Public Testimony
    • ETPL Legislation Introduced SB 275
    • Cross System Demand for Reform

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  • How can you support this effort?

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What is ETPL ?

ETPL is exactly what it sounds like - a list of training programs that are approved by a local workforce agency.

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It’s the ONLY list job seekers can use when selecting vital job training if they want access to federal workforce development funds allocated to CA.

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  • Housed on CalJOBS
  • Managed by WDBs across the state
  • Operated as a self-service model

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How can Colleges Benefit from ETPL?

Workforce Development Boards receive federal funds to support retraining dislocated workers. They CAN contract with colleges to provide this training

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Benefits college students

  • No cost access to high-quality programs with good labor market outcomes
  • WDB can provide supportive services resulting in higher completion rates & increases in livable wages

Benefits colleges

  • Enrollments - FTES/SCFF or fees for contract education
  • Higher completion rates because of supportive services - SCFF $
  • Strengthen partnerships with WDBs
  • Access to additional funding

Community Benefits

  • Better labor market outcomes (essential for federal funding)
  • Collaboration across WDBs and Colleges is an efficient use of state funding (generates better ROI)

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Challenges with ETPL

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  • Complex process for training providers to be added and remain on the list
    • 14-step enrollment process
    • 2-tiered continued review process (Local nomination & EDD approval)

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  • Limited training options on the ETPL restricts low income job seekers from accessing the full range of existing training opportunities
    • In some areas local ETPL have gone from over 30 programs to 0
    • Examples

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  • Fewer job seekers receive the training necessary to earn livable wages

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Current Situation: What is at stake ?�

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What’s falling through the cracks?

Access, consumer choice, and thousands of unutilized publicly accredited training opportunities

The Opportunity

Livable wages, increase in trainees, and filled workforce shortages

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Workgroup Member Organizations�

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ETPL Coordinators

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    • San Joaquin

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    • South Bay

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    • Ventura

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    • Riverside

Community Colleges, Consortias & Universities

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    • Diablo Valley CC

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    • Coast CCD

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    • Ventura CCD & Adult Education Consortia

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    • Bay Area & North Far North CC Consortia

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    • Orange County ROP

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    • UC Davis

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System Supports

    • California Community College Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO)

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    • Foundation for California Community Colleges (FCCC)

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    • California Workforce Association (CWA)

Community Organizations

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    • Cause IMPACTS - a social impact consulting firm

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    • Workforce Transformation Corps

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    • LA Department of Economic Opportunity

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Our Process

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ARKEN Strategies

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  • Secured cross system diverse perspectives
  • Collected known or existing ETPL concerns/pain points
  • Compiled master list
  • Synthesized challenges into core recommendations
  • Vetted recommendations with key stakeholder groups
  • Incorporated feedback
  • Finalized and separated State Control vs Federal Regulation changes
  • Submitted formal public comment on state WIOA Plan

This workgroup was built around a coalition of willing participants with key ETPL expertise and experience from both the administration and training provider perspectives.

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ETPL Recommendations within the State’s Control

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*Eliminate the requirement for providers to collect aggregate (all student) program data.

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*Establish a “conditional eligibility” status for newer programs or programs that are building a base of outcome

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Request a waiver of Initial eligibility for public accredited programs.

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Eliminate the additional State requirements and limitations imposed on the local ETPL.

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Extend continued eligibility reviews from 1 to 2 years, give local areas the option to review programs during a specific time frame.

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Require state agencies to share existing wage data.

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Streamline the CalJOBS enrollment process for training providers.

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ETPL Workgroup’s Phased Approach

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Coalition Building Sharing recommendations with key stakeholders around CA

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  • Formal Recommendations Entered into Public Record - Feb 2024
  • Vetted with all primary stakeholder groups - April 2024

Advocacy for Policy Changes Raising awareness with governmental leaders

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  • CWDB Public Testimony - August 2024
  • Legislation - SB 275 - Passed Senate Labor Committee
  • Cross System Demand for ETPL Reform

Aligned Cross System Infrastructure Build a statewide system of support that offers more than just access to training – one that provides an equitable pathway to upward mobility for all CA residents

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ETPL One Pager for Policy Makers

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Draft Agenda�

Draft Agenda�Proposal

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Reminder: Support ETPL Reform�

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  • SB 275 (ETPL recommendation #3) unanimously moved of out of the Senate Labor Committee 3/26/2025
  • Sign-on in support of ETPL Reform and get updates of our progress

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It should take no more the 2 minutes

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Over 64 Colleges &

13 WDBs have

already signed

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Have you?

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Big Thank You To:��

  • ETPL Workgroup Members: Beth Arman, Brenda Acomb Forbes, James Shivell, Jessica Daugherty, John Lutzow, Katherine Bergman, Laura Bischoff, Lora Jorgensen, Matthew Hayes, Isis Orellana, Patricia Duffy, Stephanie Feger, and Don Daves-Rougeaux, Meta Berkebile, Xue Lor, Annette Whittle, Kimberlee Meyer, Jessica Kim, Robert Chavez, Jennifer Pesavento, Suzette Odum, Emily Graham, and Carla Cortez

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  • If you’d like to know more:
    • lora@baccc.net or
    • (907)830-4180

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Big Thank You goes to:

Jennifer Pesavento, Ed.D.

North Orange County ROP

jpesavento@nocrop.us

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Laura Bischoff

South Bay Workforce Investment Board

lbischoff@sbwib.org

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Emily Graham, MPA

Columbia College, Sonora

grahame@yosemite.edu

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