High Road Training Partnerships
The High Road Training Partnerships (HRTP) initiative started as a $10M demonstration project designed to model partnership strategies for the state. Ranging from transportation to health care to hospitality, the HRTP model embodies the sector approach championed by the Board — industry partnerships that deliver equity, sustainability, and job quality. Along with these program investments, the Board is producing a body of policy and principle to guide related undertakings across the workforce system. Indeed, the initiative was designed as a campaign — to advance a field of practice that simultaneously addresses urgent questions of income inequality, economic competitiveness, and climate change through regional skills strategies designed to support economically and environmentally resilient communities across the state. The industry-based, worker-focused training partnerships build skills for California’s High Road employers — firms that compete based on quality of product and service achieved through innovation and investment in human capital, and can thus generate family-supporting jobs where workers have agency and voice.
Open Accordion
Foundation Documents
Essential Elements
HRTP Evaluation
HRTP Projects
- Advancing Entry-Level Healthcare Student Graduation and Job Placement Rates
- Agricultural Worker Training and Advancement with High Road Employers (Ag Hire)
- Arts, Media, and Entertainment High Road Training Partnership (AME-HRTP)
- Building a Behavioral Health Employment Pathways Industry Partnership
- Building Capacity to Scale Early Care & Education Apprenticeships Statewide
- California Healthy School Food Pathways Scratch Cooking for our Future
- California Water, Wastewater, and Energy Workforce Development Program
- Career Pathways in Agriculture
- CNA and CNA to LVN Apprenticeship Program
- Community Health Worker Career Accelerator and Advancement Pathways Initiative
- Community Health Worker Project The Empowerment Center (TEC)
- Comprehensive Approach to Meet Healthcare Critical Shortages
- Connecting Under-Represented Workers to High Road Jobs
- Contra Costa Harnessing Change: Refinery Transition Partnership (CCRTP)
- CWA District 9 Broadband Technician Training Program
- EMT / Paramedic Apprenticeship Program
- Equity and Job Quality in Building Decarbonization
- Expanded Partnerships to Promote Healthcare Career Pathways
- Greater Sierra Forestry Corps
- Growing the Economy – Medical Assistant and Sterile Technician Training
- Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County
- High Road to Prosperity Inland Empire Regional Collaborative
- Hospitality Initiative Moonshots (EIHI)
- HRTP RWF – California Legacy High Road to Oil Well Capping
- Humboldt High Road Wind (HRW)
- Industry-led Career Upskilling in Property Services
- Inland Empire High Road to Health Care
- Inland Empire Gateways to Opportunity Collaborative
- Lithium Valley High Road Partnership
- Pathways to Public Service Through Tech Apprenticeship
- Ready, Set, Cook Launch Your Culinary Career Program
- Sacramento County School Nurse Residency & Pathway Program
- San Diego Hospitality Alternative Staffing Agency
- TEAM GILLIG: A High Road Partnership Between Teamsters Local 853 and GILLIG
- UFCW WorkForward Cannabis Apprenticeship and Equity
- UFCW WorkForward Healthcare Expansion
- UFCW WorkForward SoCal
- Upskilling In-Home Support Service Workers in San Bernardino County and Generating New Knowledge
- West Oakland Job Resource Center (WOJRC) Regional Transportation, Distribution and Logistics (TDL) Workforce Institute and Expansion
California Climate Investments (CCI)
Current projects:
- 23/24 Projects (July 1, 2024 – March 31, 2026)
- Equitable Food Initiative – High Road to Better Agricultural Jobs
- Application
- Jewish Vocational and Career Counseling Service – Delivering Automotive Pre-Apprenticeship Training Programs in the Bay Area
- Application
- United Auto Workers – Center for Manufacturing a Green Economy
- Application
- Western States Council of Sheet Metal Workers – High Road to Sheet Metal: WSC-SMART
- Application
- Equitable Food Initiative – High Road to Better Agricultural Jobs
Past projects:
- 19/20 Projects (April 1, 2021 – March 31, 2023)
- BlueGreen Alliance Foundation – High Road Regional Workforce Strategies: Contra Costa
- Building Skills Partnership – High Road to Janitorial
- Building Skills Partnership – High Road to Safe Reopening
- California Labor Federation – High Road to Public Transit
- Center for Caregiver Advancement – High Road to Long-Term Care
- Equitable Food Initiative – High Road to Agriculture
- ICF Incorporated – High Road to Energy Storage and Microgrids
- Inland Empire Labor Institute – High Road to Logistics, Manufacturing, Construction, and Transportation
- Hospitality Training Academy – High Road to Hospitality
- Jewish Vocational Services – High Road to Water
- Kern Community College District – High Road to Regional Workforce Strategies: Kern
- LEAP Institute – High Road to Rural Sustainability
- Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy – High Road to Public Utilities
- Miguel Contreras Foundation – High Road to Electric Bus Manufacturing
- Rising Sun Center for Opportunity – High Road to Residential Building Decarbonization
- San Luis Obispo County Office of Education – High Road to Offshore Wind Energy
- Sierra Institute for Community and Environment – High Road to Tribal Forest Restoration
- Shirley Ware Education Center – High Road to Healthcare
- United Food and Commercial Workers West States Council – High Road to Food Production
- Worker Education and Resource Center – High Road to Public Service and Electric Bus Manufacturing
- Worker Education and Resource Center – High Road to Public Sector Employment and Racial Equity
Award Announcements
Summer 2023 Award Announcement:
The California Workforce Development Board (CWDB) and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) are pleased to announce the following projects have been awarded for the Resilient Workforce Program. The High Road Training Partnership (HRTP): Resilient Workforce Program advances a field of practice that addresses urgent questions of income inequality, economic competitiveness, and climate change through regional workforce strategies.
See the full RWP Summer 2023 Announcement here
Spring 2023 Award Announcement:
The California Workforce Development Board (CWDB) and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) are pleased to announce the following projects have been awarded for the Resilient Workforce Program. The High Road Training Partnership (HRTP): Resilient Workforce Program advances a field of practice that addresses urgent questions of income inequality, economic competitiveness, and climate change through regional workforce strategies.
See the full RWP Spring 2023 Announcement here
Winter 2023 Award Announcement:
The California Workforce Development Board (CWDB) and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) are pleased to announce the following projects have been awarded for the Resilient Workforce Program. The High Road Training Partnership (HRTP): Resilient Workforce Program advances a field of practice that addresses urgent questions of income inequality, economic competitiveness, and climate change through regional workforce strategies.
See the full RWP Winter 2023 Announcement here
Fall 2022 Award Announcement:
The California Workforce Development Board (CWDB) and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) are pleased to announce the awards for the Fall 2022 application cycle for the Resilient Workforce Fund (RWF). The HRTP: Resilient Workforce Fund advances a field of practice that addresses urgent questions of income inequality, economic competitiveness, and climate change through regional workforce strategies.
See the full RWF Announcement here
Spring/Summer 2022 Award Announcement:
The California Workforce Development Board (CWDB) and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) are pleased to announce awards for the Resilient Workforce Fund (RWF). The HRTP: Resilient Workforce Fund advances a field of practice that addresses urgent questions of income inequality, economic competitiveness, and climate change through regional workforce strategies.
See the full RWF Announcement here
3/7/2022 Award Announcement:
The California Workforce Development Board is pleased to announce awards for the High Road Training Partnership (HRTP) WIOA 3.0 grant program, funded by WIOA 15% Discretionary funds. The HRTP WIOA 3.0 grant program will supplement current HRTPs to build on strategies through industry-specific innovation leading to improvements in equity, job quality, and environmental sustainability.
See the full announcement here.
Featured Links
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- Employment Development Department
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- California Department of Education
- State Personnel Board
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- EDD Policy & Guidance
- California Employment Training Panel
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